Ealing's Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service for Adults and Young People

Descriptions

Ealing Council is commissioning an integrated adult and young people’s drug and alcohol treatment service to work in partnership with other key agencies to provide a flexible, holistic community-based service across the borough.The integrated treatment service’s primary aims, and objectives are to:• deliver evidence based, high quality treatment interventions (both pharmacological and psychosocial) placing the young person or adult at the heart of the treatment system and designing their treatment package in partnership with the service user;• provide harm minimisation support and advice at all stages of residents’ treatment journeys, with a focus on keeping people safe, and reducing associated harms including drug and alcohol related death, blood borne virus transmission, and hospitalisation;• support adults and young people to improve their overall health and wellbeing and inspire them to maintain ‘recovery’ and abstinence from problematic drug and alcohol use;• work within a strength-based approach (‘what’s strong here, not what’s wrong here’ and ‘what matters to you, rather than what’s the matter with you’) supporting people to live their lives fully and build on their strengths and resilience;• work in partnership to prevent adults and young people from misusing substances and build capacity for prevention, identification and brief intervention of substance misuse across key partner agencies;• offer specialist drug and alcohol support to reduce the damage to families affected by ‘hidden harm’ and adopt a think family approach within the treatment service;• provide support within the context of the wider family and carers for young people and young adults with drug and alcohol problems, and work in partnership with the family and carers of adults in the treatment service, when service users provide their consent;• deliver accessible services in Ealing, reducing barriers caused by geography, protected characteristics, employment status and safeguarding issues such as domestic abuse;• respond to new and emerging drugs in a frequently evolving and changing landscape;• improve awareness across Ealing’s communities about the positive impact of treatment and how to get help and support.