Early Intervention & Prevention Update

Update to ADP Committee 16th September 2019

The EI&P group is not currently meeting.

Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABIs)

Your role in Alcohol & Drugs training has been delivered to 117 tenancy staff across the Shire in collaboration with Police Scotland. Various disciplines within tenancy services attended predominately Housing Officers, Sheltered Housing Officers and Early Intervention Officers but also staff from the Community Safety team and Community Justice as well as Housing Occupational Therapists (OT).

Four sessions were held in the North (2 x & 2 Peterhead), two sessions in Central (Inverurie) & 1 in the South (). Those attending wanted the following from the training - more information on how to help, how to deal with A&D in their role, how to raise the discussion, more confidence on how to discuss, signs and symptoms, how to help folk move on from problematic use, what the pathways are and how to access services and how to signpost, among others.

The sessions gave an overview of Alcohol and the cost of alcohol related harm in , information and interactive activities on the alcohol unit guidelines, why ABI’s are useful and the background evidence for same. Screening tools including the scratchcards, further information was also given on cuckooing and information on drugs with examples of substances shown. The session was ended with further information on screening, delivering an ABI and information on Aberdeenshire Alcohol & Drug services and the ASSET Gateway service and Scottish Families affected by Alcohol & Drugs services information leaflets (SFAD). Comprehensive resources were distributed including the scratchcards and unit glasses and other information leaflets on alcohol & drugs and links to other online resources including Hi-Net, & Grampian Health information online resources (HIRS) and Sobering Thought among others. An evaluation of the training is presently being compiled from the evaluation forms used at the training, where 69 of the attendees were interested in further training and several were interested in becoming ABI champions within tenancy services.

Don’t Mix It Drug Related Deaths Campaign

A short life working group has continued to work virtually on behalf of the three Grampian ADPs developing the Don’t Mix it campaign, an update to the campaign originally launched in 2013. This work has been greatly supported by Leah Dawson (NHS Grampian) and her Comms team. Alcohol continues to be a prominent feature in the drugs mix involved in more recent deaths.

A social meda campaign using the International Overdose awareness day graphics were used for IOD day on 31st August via Facebook and Twitter and NHS Grampian online.

Could someone you know be affected by an overdose? You could save a life. This is one of a series of short information videos that seek to raise awareness of some of the biggest risks of overdose in the North East of Scotland. These are mixing drugs and alcohol and buying drugs online or via social media. The videos will signpost to a website with further practical advice on how to reduce risk - http://hi-netgrampian.org/overdose. The website is for anyone affected, including friends or family members. #overdoseaware

NHS Grampian Comms team have also created a Naloxone page on Hi-Net: https://www.hi-netgrampian.org/overdose/naloxone/

Supporting Drug Education in Schools

Discussions across Aberdeenshire continue regarding addressing Drugs in Schools with an emphasis on developing sustainable long-term solutions.

The aim is to support schools to be safe places, free of the impact of drugs, drug use and drug harms and to use a “public health approach” to achieve this, building capacity within academies. This initiative has arisen from the collaboration of frontline staff in Police Scotland, Education, Drugs Services and Public Health. Previous discussion on a ‘summit’ has not progressed, Moray & City are going ahead with their own groups and linking with their LOIPs.

Peterhead Local GIRFEC Group (PLGG) has been pro-active in looking at their situation, looking for local solutions and this blazed a trail for other schools to make contact, including , Academy, , , & Turrif local GIRFEC group. All discussion is being encouraged to be had via the local GIRFEC Groups and a subgroup of the Aberdeenshire GIRFEC Thematic Substance misuse group will support this work forward.

CREW 2000 Training

CREW 2000 delivered multi agency training in North, Central & South Localities on 10th, 11th & 12th June funded by the ADP (105 in total).

North: 40 attendees, including Pupil Support Workers; Social Workers; MCR Pathways Co-ordinators; CLD Workers; Police Officers; Family Support Workers; Community Safety Housing Officer; Community Wardens; PT Guidance; Youth Services Team Social Workers, Schools represented were: Fraserburgh Academy; ; ; Academy; Banff Academy

Central, 40 attendees including: Police Constables; MCR Pathways Pupil Support Workers; Community Safety Officers; Senior CLD workers; CLD workers; CLD assistant; youth worker; team manager; Safer Community Warden; Pupil Support Workers; social workers; Police Sergeant; Guidance Teacher; Streetsport Development Officer; P T Guidance; Team Leader - Community Safety; Schools Programme Manager; Schools represented were: ; ; Alford campus; Community Campus; ; Academy; ; ; Peterhead Academy; Academy; Turriff academy

South, 25 attendees including: pupil support workers; Sen. Community Learning & Dev. Worker; CLD Workers; Police sergeant; Principal Teacher; PT Guidance; family support worker; Schools represented were Peterhead Academy; Portlethen CLC; ; ; Mearns Community Campus; Fraserburgh Academy; Aboyne Academy

Two evaluations were completed one from CREW, a full report of feedback is being completed.

Plans are developing with Community Safety for joint work on further CREW training and a comprehensive package to support the frontline workforce which is being developed as a result of the evaluations from the initial CREW training.

Report compiled by:

George Howie Principal Health Improvement Officer Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership 09/09/19