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.
New fears for Thai drug users
'Drug users and human rights groups in Thailand fear a repeat of the horrors of 2003. Lifeline will attempt to keep up-to-date with events in Thailand and post any news we receive on our web site.'
Secret workers
'In 2006 anecdotal stories began appearing in the press about Eastern European women being brought to the UK, and forced into the sex industry. The term for this is Human Trafficking. 2007 is the Bi-centenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The more reports staff and volunteers read in the papers and heard on the news, the more concerned we became.'