Drug Interventions Programme
Throughcare & Aftercare
This section includes a variety of guidance, information and support to help DATs implement throughcare and aftercare.
Government Office for the South East
The Government Office for the South East produces a Drugs and Communities newsletter as part of an occasional series. Each edition focuses on a drugs related topic and presents case studies, projects, guidance and forthcoming events.
Edition 1 (October 2007) : Housing
Edition 2 (April 2008): Family support and information focus.
The next edition will be due out in the Summer and will focus on how drugs services are meeting diverse needs within the community. Do you have a successful drugs and communities project within the South East you would like to share in the next newsletter? Are there barriers you are coming across time and time again - maybe another reader will have the solution?
For further information and contributions please contact:
Thamasin Gray
thamasin.gray@gose.gsi.gov.uk
Government Office for the South East (new window)
CJITs
CJITs and DRR/DTTO Clients Case Management, Monitoring and Research Issues - Q&A Guidance
This Q&A paper is an extract of key points from a longer guidance document being prepared by DIP, Probation, NOMS and NTA. It aims to offer immediate guidance on the case management and offender management of drug using offenders who are in contact with DIP and Probation.
Managing Drug Misusers Under Probation Supervision : Guidance for Probation, CJITS and CARAT Teams (November 2007)
Has been produced for Criminal Justice Integrated Teams (CJITs), Counselling Assessment,Referral Advice and Throughcare Teams (CARATs) and offender managers in the National Probation Service (NPS). It is in addition to information and guidance issued on 13 July 2006 CJITs and DRR/DTTO Clients: Case Management and Monitoring and Research Issues.
Criminal Justice Integrated Teams and treatment interventions
Clinical guidance to maximise access to drug treatment.
Clinical guidance appendix 3 (new window)
Integrated care pathways - CJIP. Rapid community stabilisation on substitute medication.
Further information on Case Management (new window)
Throughcare and Aftercare further information on Case Management.
Q&A guidance issued by DIP, Probation, NOMS-DSU and NTA
This Q&A paper is an extract of key points from a longer guidance document being prepared by DIP, Probation, NOMS and NTA. It aims to offer immediate guidance on the case management and offender management of drug using offenders who are in contact with DIP and Probation.
Single Point of Contact - CJITs and professionals
CJIT Single Point of Contact - Guidance June 07
The purpose of this document is to reiterate the purpose of the CJIT SPOC, and to recommend potential alterations to service to ensure that all SPOCs are fully operational to handle the implementation of follow up assessment.
Single point of contact (new window)
Guidance on single point of contact for drug workers and other professionals in the field to CJIT Teams.
Education, training, employment (ETE)/Progress2Work
Progress2Work factsheet
This factsheet examines issues facing DATs as they build links to the Progress2Work initiative.
Promoting practice between DAT partnerships and Education, Training and Employment provision for Drug Interventions Programme clients (January 2006)
This paper seeks to identify and highlight practical key elements which can progress integration and implementation of Education Training and Employment (ETE) provision for clients of the Drug Interventions Programme by using examples of case studies.
Peer Led Support
Developing Peer Led Support for Individuals Leaving Substance Misuse Treatment
The importance of aftercare for those who have completed substance misuse treatment is now well acknowledged. However, there is still limited evidence on what works in peer-led aftercare support, particularly where drug misusers want support to be drug free. There are also a limited number of these projects: peer support has been identified as a gap in aftercare provision.
Peer-Led Approaches for Ex-Drug Users to Meet Diverse Needs: A Practice Guide (October 2006)
This practice guide has been developed as a resource for DAAT partnerships and commissioners to provide examples of practice that will support them in developing and delivering appropriate peer-led support to meet the diverse needs of ex-drug users in their local areas. It identifies transferable practice using examples of practical approaches of peer-led support in England from within the substance misuse sector, but also from associated sectors such as mental health and HIV.
