Agency Profiles: enhancing the impact of success
These agency profiles serve several functions:
- help increase the general public's understanding and awareness of
treatment for substance misuse problems.
- help treatment agency workers become aware of what other workers are
doing, what experiences they have, and how they deal with certain problems
and situations.
- provide a way by which a treatment agency can promote itself and attract
additional funding.
Breaking
Boundaries: Profile of West Glamorgan Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
(WGCADA)
Brings to life the unique range of services offered by this South Wales
treatment agency (1.2Mb file)
Learn from this treatment
service
WIRED conducts evaluation of the structured day care (community rehabilitation)
programme of the Burton Addiction and O'Connor Centres.
Cheryl's Diary
Cheryl Hancock had become interested in the work her daughter Becky was
doing as a member of our team. We asked her if she would like to spend
a week in a drug and alcohol treatment agency and write up her experiences.
Profile of the Neath
Port Talbot Arrest Referral Scheme
Profile of this scheme operating in South Wales includes statistics, case
studies, interviews with workers, commissioners and clients, description
of key elements underlying the considerable success of the scheme, consideration
of cost-effectiveness, and recommendations for future.
Profile of a Young
Persons Worker
We hear from Colin Lloyd about the varying aspects of his work as a Young
Person's Worker in Neath Port Talbot. It's "Not just talking the
talk. It's walking the walk as well. There's a big difference."
Profile of a Sports
Development Worker
The Sports Development Worker in Carmarthenshire helps substance misusers
to develop skills and interests in sports and leisure, a positive alternative
to drug and alcohol misuse. He provides a key service in the strategy
of developing a multidimensional response to substance misuse, and is
also a gateway to other services.
Profile of Inroads outreach
project
Outreach project supported by the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Fund in Wales
that takes the service of Inroads out of Cardiff City Centre and into
the outlying estates of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, targeting hard-to-reach,
vulnerable young people.
Option2: a crisis intervention
service for families
Option 2 is a short-term crisis intervention service for families where
there are serious Child Protection concerns and where substance misuse
is an issue, aimed at creating a positive change in the way that these
families function.
Taff Ely Drug Support (TEDS) home
detoxification service
Home detoxification for heroin users as carried out by the voluntary sector
agency TEDS. We interview home detox workers and clients, and consider
a variety of aspects of this form of treatment.
Chris Weaver, North Wales Community
Drug and Alcohol Liaison Midwife
This unique and highly successful project has established a treatment
service across a wide geographical region for pregnant women who misuse
drugs and alcohol, provided advice and support for these ladies, educated
a large number of professionals about substance misuse in pregnancy, and
developed a specialist knowledge base of recent research findings.
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