| CARAT Team |
CARAT Team
Geographical Area: Service works with any young people in custody at the prison
Age Range Min: 15
Age Range Max: 21
Gender Specific: Yes
| Culturally Specific: No
Method of Access: The target audience is male sentenced young offenders between the ages of 15 – 21. They also hold juvenile remands. Access is through self referral or through internal/external agencies.
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| Description |
A member of the team sees all new trainees within 24hrs of them being received at HMYOI Stoke Heath.
If trainees are identified as from withdrawing off heroin they will be offered detoxification treatment from the healthcare staff.
However, if trainees decline any intervention at this early stage of their sentence then they or any other internal/external agency can refer trainees to the service.
All prisoners referred from initial contact are initially assessed within 5 working days and a Care Plan Assessment and Care Plan are completed 10 days following this assessment.
All Care Plans are S.M.A.R.T and tailor made to the individual clients.
One to one intervention or group work is provided within the Carat’s framework for those assessed as needing these types of intervention.
Once all work has been completed in custody, CARAT workers will devise a release plan identifying those who need post release support. Ideally this is identified at an early stage of their sentence liaising with appropriate external agencies.
Working closely with Healthcare there is now the availability to prescribe naltraxone for previous heroin dependent trainees prior to their release from custody. |
| Staff Profile |
| The CARAT team is made up of 5 drug workers, one A.O and a Team Leader that also has responsibility for HM YOI Werrington. The West Midlands co-ordinator is Mr Paul Rowlands who is based in area office in Shrewsbury. |
| Linked Organisations |
| The team liaise with other agencies in the criminal justice field |
