"Partnerships & initiatives"

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Partnerships & Initiatives

Drugaid believe that working together in partnership can provide a rounded and integrated service, which meets the many needs of our service users, in a seamless and coordinated manner.

Effective treatment systems cannot work without partnership and joint working agreements.

Partnerships

Partnership is about recognising and respecting other organisations' unique contribution to service delivery. It needs trust, understanding and shared vision. It ultimately improves service user journeys throughout the treatment system.

We foster partnership working whether formal or informal these include:

  • INCLUDE
  • GPs
  • Community Prescribing Service
  • TEDS
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Gwent Specialist Substance Misuse Service (GSSMS)
  • Cwm Taff Community Drug and Alcohol Team (CDAT), RCT and Merthyr Tydfil
  • Communities Against Drugs (Torfaen)
  • Social services
  • Local Health Boards
  • Substance Misuse Action Teams
  • Youth Offending Teams
  • National Probation Service
  • Drug Intervention Programme
  • Gwent Alcohol Project

Initiatives

Drugaid supports innovative service provision. We actively seek out good practice. We have undertaken a number of initiatives within the organisation recently including:

  • Drop-in services
  • Peer mentoring
  • Service user involvement
  • Engagement and retention initiative
  • Volunteering coordinator
  • Workforce and staff development programme
  • Performance management system review
  • Website and promotional material review and development with service users

We believe that services need to continuously improve and respond  to the needs of service users.

We also look externally for opportunities to expand our service both in breadth and depth. We are excited about a number of initiatives in 2009. These include:

  • Strengthening Families Programme in Caerphilly and Merthyr Tydfil
  • Community Prescribing Service in Merthyr Tydfil (Substance Misuse Support Programme)
  • GP Shared Care Service in Rhondda Cynon Taff (DART)
  • Drop-in services in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taff

These we do in partnership with a range of organisations and individuals and very importantly, service users.

In addition to these initiatives we run campaigns in Gwent to engage with hard-to-reach groups as part of our GOALS service. Our campaigns focus on harm reduction and have included:

  • Hepatitis C
  • Overdose prevention

Our new campaign will be on stimulant use.