Professionals
working with young people
Kent Drug & Alcohol
Action Team commission a range of services for young people, click on
the following links:
List of KDAAT
Services and Contacts
To refer a young person (aged between 10 and
17 years) to the specialist one to one services provided by KCA, please
either:
Screening
or referring a young person experiencing drug or alcohol problems
Training
Referring
a Parent or Carer for support
Anecdotal
Evidence
KDAAT Young
People's Publications
Drug Use Screening
Tool (DUST)
The Drug Use Screening Tool
(DUST) training programme assists professionals to talk to young people
effectively about substance use and direct them to appropriate services.
It is targeted at those who work with young people, especially those who
work with vulnerable groups such as Looked After Children , Young Offenders
& School Excludees. KDAAT funds KCA to provide a number of level I
& II training sessions across the county each year. If you are keen
for you or your organisation to receive DUST training, please contact
KCA on 01227 456744.
Level I training covers
drug awareness, how to spot the signs and symptoms, how to screen for
drug and alcohol problems, what specialist service are out there and how
and when to refer, attitudes and values and youth culture.
Level II training focusses
more on interventions that professionals can carry out with young people
that they work with, including motivational and harm reduction toolkits,
as well as looking at dependency and addiction in more depth.
If the KCA training for
DUST is at capacity, please contact KDAAT on 01622 669000 and inform us
of your interest in the training.
Training
KDAAT provide 2 levels of
DUST training for professionals who work with young people, if you want
to book yourself or your agency onto this training, please contact:
KCA Young Persons’
Service
41 Wincheap
Canterbury, Kent, CT1 3RX
Tel: 01227 456744
E-mail: yps@kca.org.uk
Referring
a Parent or Carer for Support
Grey Zebra provide support for
parents & carers who are experiencing problems as a result of a young
person’s use of drugs or alcohol.
To find out more information or to make a referral,
please contact Grey Zebra on 01622 817777, visit www.kenwardtrust.org.uk,
or e-mail familiesandcarers@kenwardtrust.org.uk
(Reg. Charity No. 265394)
Anecdotal
Evidence
KDAAT commissions drug &
alcohol education, prevention & treatment services for young people
(aged under 18 years) across Kent on the basis of ongoing assessment of
need. However, there is a lot of evidence which is not officially collected
but is valuable to us for targeting our services.
Anecdotal evidence is often
reported to professionals by young people, parents or carers, or is witnessed
by the professional themselves. KDAAT wishes to collect this information
and use it to inform our commissioning strategy and to target service
responses. If you have heard any information about:
- Drug dealing to young
people
- Underage alcohol sales
- Solvent use in public
places
- Anything else that is
related to substance misuse
Please let us know (anonymously
if you wish) by phoning the Young People's Team on 01227 592433 or by
e-mailing kdat@kdaat.org
KDAAT
Young People’s Publications
For more information, please
download files from the list below:
- Spin
the Bottle (209kb) - Ensuring Positive Outcomes for Young People
When They Drink - (added 22/05/06)
- KDAAT Young
People's Needs Assessment 2008 (231kb) - KDAAT Young People's
Joint Commissioning Group
- Review
of the Kent DAAT Mentoring Programme Pilot (44kb) - Dan Bride
of Rainer Kent Mentoring Service, July 2005
- Substance
Misuse Services for Young Offenders (1Mb) - Matt Scott of KDAAT
- An
Evaluation of a Brief Intervention Model for use with Young Non-Injecting
Stimulant Users (20kb) - John Marsden, Garry Stillwell, Helen
Barlow, Colin Taylor, Annabel Boys and Neil Hunt
- An
Evaluation of a Brief Intervention Model for use with Young Non-Injecting
Stimulant Users- page 2 (193kb) - Department of Health
- An
Evaluation of a Brief Intervention Model for use with Young Non-Injecting
Stimulant Users - page 2 (31kb) - Department of Health
- Consultation
of Young People for Kent & Medway DAAT (129kb) - In-volve,
July 2005
- Drug
Use Screening Tool Training Evaluation, April 2004 to March 2005
(43kb) - Christina Crotty of KCA, June 2005
- Housing
Needs Assessment - Homeless Young People & Substance Misuse in Canterbury,
dover and Thanet (290kb) - Rachel Sellwood from East Kent Cyrenians,
June 2005
- 1:1
Interventions for Young People: Overview of Available Evidence (383kb)
- Neil Hunt & Alex Stevens, April 2005
- 1:1
Interventions for Young People: Analysis of Monitoring Data (294kb)
- Alex Stevens, March 2005
- Child
Protection & Substance Misuse (80kb) - Kent Child Protection
Committee and Kent Drug & Alcohol Action Team, Jan 2005
- Lifeskills
Project Evaluation (161kb) - KCA Young Person's Drug & Alcohol
Service, June 2004
- Kenward
Trust Grey Zebra Project - Cascade Interim Evaluation Report for DEPIS
(103kb) - Allison Summers, Maria White, Tina Mills & John Shanley,
March 2004
- Targeted
Drug & Alcohol Prevention for Young People in Children's Homes
(920kb) - Nicole Hildreth, May 2003
- Choosing
Health in the South East: Problem Drug Use - A report from
the South East Public Health Observatory (SEPHO) describing the pattern
and impact of problem drug use across the South East region of the UK.
It is intended to be useful to those concerned with tackling problem
drug use at the regional and local levels.
- Strategy
for Reducing Drug Related Deaths (RDRD) - 2004 (drafted by Neil
Hunt)
- Executive
Summary - The Substance Misuse Treatment Needs of Children Under 11
Year Old
- Full
Report - The Substance Misuse Treatment Needs of Children Under 11 Year
Old
- Executive
Summary - A Young Voice In Drug and Alcohol Issues
- Full
Report - A Young Voice In Drug and Alcohol Issues
- Drug
Testing in Schools
- The
Needs of Black and Ethnic Minority Youth in Kent in Relation to Substances
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