Work within Cambridgeshire around Young People & Substance Misuse issues

 

Education /Prevention

Cambridgeshire Personal Health Social Education (PSHE) Service provides support for schools in teaching drug education and awareness from the ages of 4 - 16. Secondary schools undertake the Balding Health Related Behaviour Survey every two years, providing invaluable information about the drug and alcohol use of young people at district council level. This enables a better understanding of young people's knowledge in order to better target drug and alcohol education.

In conjunction with this, drug awareness evenings for parents are held in both primary and secondary schools, where parents can get advice and information about substance misuse and their children.

 

Treatment

 

CASUS provide a variety of types of treatment and support fro young people and their families. Please see the ‘Local Support for Young People’ pages.

 

Support for Professionals

 

CASUS and the DAAT support professionals working with young people, to have the right level of knowledge and understanding, in order to deal with any substance misuse issues they may come across.

CASUS will be targeting training at multi-agency teams who work in different parts of the county, so that all of those working in a geographical area know how and when to refer young people to treatment.

Please contact the DAAT on 01223 699680 if you are a professional and have a query about training.

 

 

National Support

The FRANK helpline has now been up and running for five years providing help for young people and their parents who are concerned or have questions about drugs. Cambridgeshire DAAT continues to promote this widely as a useful resource for young people and their parents across the county.
We now have a bus in Cambridgeshire painted with the FRANK logo, so this should be an eye-catching way to promote the help-line.

 

                                                                  Updated March 26th 2010