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Discovery and CADDY Projects| Discovery and CADDY Projects | Discovery and CADDY Projects
Geographical Area: Coventry
Age Range Min: 12
Age Range Max: 19
Gender Specific: No
| Culturally Specific: No
| | Description | Young People’s service offering advice and information on drugs and alcohol, prescribing, counselling, education and training.
An holistic approach operates at all levels throughout the two projects.
Prescribing interventions are appropriate to age, maturity and development of the young person. An assessment of each young person is carried out before they see the Doctor. Together with the young person, these professionals, will agree an appropriate prescribing and care programme.
The service considers it to be good practice to involve parents or carers in the treatment of their children and will usually require written consent before any drug or alcohol intervention is offered to a young person under 16 yrs. They will encourage all under 18yr olds to involve parents and carers.
Counselling is available and will work towards enabling young people to identify factors relating to their substance misuse and to help them achieve positive changes in their lifestyles.
Provision of condoms and related advice.
Complementary therapies. – can help reduce symptoms of withdrawal and cravings. Acupuncture
Community detoxification.
Needle exchange drop in service, all clients are made aware of harm reduction advice – the most effective way of avoiding harm from injecting is not to inject, and encouraged to use safer routes of admission. | | Mission Statement | | The main objective is ‘to significantly reduce the broad range of harms experienced by young people, aged 12 to 19 years, who use substances or who are affected by the use of others.’ |
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