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Warwickshire Young Persons Substance Misuse Service| Warwickshire Young Persons Substance Misuse Service | Warwickshire Young Persons Substance Misuse Service
Geographical Area: Warwickshire
Age Range Min: 12
Age Range Max: 19
Gender Specific: No
| Culturally Specific: No
Method of Access: Young people can self refer, the service also takes referrals from other professionals, parents and carers.
| | Description | A range of services is provided to young people by specialist substance misuse workers and health workers.
For anyone presenting with a drug/alcohol misuse issues, the worker will carry out an assessment, will work to get to know the young person and their family if appropriate (home visits can be arranged) and will put a care plan in to place that will work for both the client and the family. Each care plan is reviewed at least every three months.
A variety of approaches of counselling are employed depending on the client, and it is recognised that any issue, such as relapse prevention, has to be made user friendly depending on the age of the client.
There are special young person’s clinics within the CDTs with referrals from a variety of sources that address substitute prescribing. Detox can be arranged with daily pickups and drug testing at least weekly., during which time the young person is seen daily by their Key worker.
For any hard to engage or complex and difficult young person such as a teenage pregnant drug user, referral to a consultant at Woodleigh Beeches (Tier 4) is possible. It is also possible to organise in-patient detox (lasting approximately 8 - 10 days) for anyone for whom a community based detox is not appropriate, only one young person has been referred there in the last 3 years.
Workers also run workshops and group sessions for young people and there is a good working system of referring young people on to other services for help and support with any other problems they may have.
The service is currently changing its focus from being one with workers based in host agencies around the county, to a service which has a single point of access and information together with many access points across the area, making it easier for young people to attend in their locality. It is anticipated that many of the access points will be in GP practices.
Further recommendations made by the Young Person’s Substance Misuse Liaison Group, the Warwickshire Community Safety Partnership and Warwickshire DAT are going to be implemented over the next two years with the aim of providing an enhanced service to all young people, including the specific targeting of vulnerable young people. | | Staff Profile | 5 Young People's substance misuse workers, 2 health workers based in the YOT, I worker based in Social Services.
2 Connexions Substance Misuse workers, 1 covering the North and 1 the South, carry out Tier 2 work.
I Operations Manager | | Linked Organisations | | Warwickshire CAMHS, Warwickshire Anti-drugs Sports Manager, Connexions, Youth Offending Team, Social Services and Adult Community Drug Teams, Life Education Centres, Family & Friends, Warwickshire County Council Anti-Social Behaviour, Teenage Pregnancy, Education and Anti-Bullying services. |
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