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| Alton8 Limited | Alton8 Ltd is an innovative IT services company providing web products and software services to businesses, charities and public bodies. We are committed to empowering organisations by effective use of IT.
We have an open and responsive approach to customer service which puts you firmly in the driving seat and gives you peace of mind from knowing you are in control.
We will guide you through the process of refining your requirements and will help you decide on the most appropriate solution.
Please contact us : 01473 832852 for an informal chat about your requirements. |
| Amundsen Consulting | Amundsen Consulting provides specialist independent research, audit and evaluation services within the substance misuse, addiction, criminal justice and related arenas.
We work in close conjunction with statutory and non-statutory organisations including Drug & Alcohol Action Teams , Adult and Young Person services, Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, Community Safety Teams and Government Offices, to deliver high quality, effective and comprehensive evidence based solutions.
Please contact us on 01473 810 055 to discuss your requirements and how we can help you. |
| Cannabis Help | Interactive website enabling cannabis users to take control of their use. Ideally, users will logon every day during a 4 - 6 week period. Site also provides information about the effects of cannabis usage, risks and harm reduction. Users and all information they provide is anonymous and in confidence. |
| Connexions | Activities and residential courses for 8 - 19 year olds run during the school holidays. Participation is via referral from a Connexions PA, Youth Offending Officer, Youth Worker or Education Welfare Officer. |
| DANOS | Skills for Health works with employers and other stakeholders to ensure that those working in the sector are equipped with the right skills to support the development and delivery of healthcare services. This website provides information, advice and guidance on using the natioanl occupational standards for workers in the Drugs and Alcohol field.
National Occupational Standards can be used for a wide range of purposes throughout the human resource management and development cycle, as well as to support partnership development, quality assurance and the development of organisational culture. |
| Drugs.Gov.UK | This website provides professionals working in the field with the latest news and guidance from government about the Drugs Strategy. |
| Drugscope | DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs: Our aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk. |
| Frank | The Talk to Frank website with a free and confidential 24 hour drugs information and advice line. 0800 77 66 00
Drug information including advice on where to get help or what to do if you are worried about someone else's drug use. Useful section for parents with advice on how to manage conversations with children about drugs. |
| Galaxy | Website for young people aged 7 - 11 giving up-to-date and accurate information on a wide range of health issues. |
| Know Cannabis | This website can help you assess your cannabis use, its impact on your life and how to make changes if you want to. Smoking cannabis can cause you problems in different areas of your life; it is illegal and potentially harmful. Some regular cannabis smokers choose to cut down and stop, many find it easy, others find it hard. |
| Lifebytes | Website for young people aged 11 - 14 giving facts about different health topics including drugs and alcohol, healthy schools and some health conditions. |
| MindBodySoul | Website for young people aged 14 - 16 giving up-to-date and accurate information on a wide range of health issues. |
| Mobile Team Challenge | Mobile Team Challenge offers state-of-the-art portable low ropes course equipment as well as customized experiential training programs currently utilized by over 300 organizations in 39 states and 9 countries around the world. |
| National Treatment Agency | The NTA aims to increase the availability, capacity and effectiveness of treatment for drug misuse in England. This site includes details of the NTA's work programme, as well as publications and guidance for those in the drug treatment sector. |
| Positive Futures - Youth Justice Board | Positive Futures is a national sports-based social inclusion programme aimed at marginalised 10 to 19-year-olds in the most deprived areas, according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
The programme aims to use sport as a catalyst to encourage participants to make decisions for themselves, and to take self-determined steps towards a positive future. Steering young people towards educational and employment opportunities is at the heart of the programme’s agenda.
Positive Futures is managed within the Home Office Drugs Strategy Directorate. |
| Protective Behaviours | The Protective Behaviours Framework originated in child abuse prevention and is now used by schools, residential care services, domestic violence services, meditation practitioners, police, counselling agencies, probation workers, youth workers, social services, disability service workers. Used in assertiveness training and to change challenging behaviour, the site's aim is for professionals and others to see how Protective Behaviours could help in their setting and to take up training. |
| Teenage Health Freak | Set up by the writers of writers of the original Diary of a Teenage Health Freak series, the site aims to "provide web-based, accurate and reliable health information to teenagers in a contemporary, cringe-free, entertaining and informative way." The site also features resources for teachers. |
| The Who Cares? Trust | Information on being in care and leaving care and a wide range of other subjects including a section on health and drugs. |
| Trouble Website | This is a website for young people run by West Midlands Police. It has three sections for the age groups; 4 -6, 7 - 12 and 13 - 16, with useful information and advice on issues such as personal and internet safety, helping and caring for others and bullying. |
| Whats The Deal | Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council and the Leisure Trust, in partnership with local businesses and organizations, have created the what's the Deal web site which carries fully up-to-date information on substance misuse, and is funded under the Government’s ‘tackling drugs to build a better Britain’ initiative for the people of the Nuneaton, Bedworth and surrounding area. The site contains not only information on the drugs of today, but also has a set of online forums, including ‘help for parents’ and discussion rooms. This enables users to interact with others and seek advice to combat problems relating to substance misuse. The web site also has current news and a wealth of links to other relevant help sites. |
| Youth Information | Has information on over 1000 topics including Family and Relationships, Health, Justice and Equality and the Environment. There are contact details for over 1200 national organisations. |
