About Services - North West - East Lancashire
Lifeline has been delivering services to young people in East Lancashire since 1997. Lifeline East Lancashire's Early Intervention Service (Tier 2/3) works to address both current substance use, by young people, and identify specific action that will help reduce the impact of risk. Lifeline East Lancashire staff work across disciplines and across agency boundaries and the staff team comprises workers with a range of experiences and qualifi cations - including teachers, youth workers, personal advisors, counsellors, community workers, social workers and youth justice workers. Although some of the work carried out is relatively informal and takes place in groups a large part is focused on individual young people. In 2003/4 over 640 individual young people received a structured assessment and care planned service from Lifeline East Lancashire. Whilst these young people varied greatly Lifeline staff were able to put in place plans to address their drug use whilst at the same time address the kind of risk factors that might predict future, more problematic, substance use.
Keith Owen
Who do they tell? (A46)
8 page booklet detailing the records that are kept by drug services about their clients and in what circumstances information is shared. Includes information about the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System and the Treatments Outcome Profile.
Alcopops Poster (K1)
The poster and postcards feature information on: drinking, driving and overcrowding cars; advertising; alcohol content; drinking to appear hard, risky situations; drinking alone and helping friends. Space is provided for local information.
IF I RULED THE WORLD...
Presented at NOMS Prisons and Beyond conference October 2007.
'Everything we have learned about health literacy at Lifeline indicates that the most empowering public health campaigns are those which involve most thoroughly the target audience for whom the messages are intended'
An overview of drug use among young people in Britain
"About half of the parents of smoking/drinking teenagers reported knowing that their child used tobacco/alcohol"