Young Peoples Specialist Drugs and Alcohol Service including Intensive Prevention Support

A Young Peoples Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service that will work in close partnership with key Young Peoples and Families services to ensure a multi-agency approach towards achieving successful outcomes and building resilience in Young People and their families. The Service is expected to provide a wide range of interventions which will incorporate the following: • Targeted Early Intervention and Prevention for those ‘At Risk’ – providing screening and brief interventions for Young People. • Harm Reduction and Specialist Interventions – providing a range of services / interventions from brief advice to evidenced based structured psychosocial interventions.

This will include needle exchange and substitute prescribing when required. In addition the Service will also provide a Specialist Substance Misuse worker who will work alongside and under the direction of Families First Intensive Prevention Service Team (IPS), with a specific cohort of Young People at risk of becoming Looked After Children.

As part of the market engagement process we would like to invite organisations interested in this opportunity to comment on the specification before a final version is issued. Feedback should be provided no later than 12 noon Friday 20th May 2016. To participate in this process we would like to invite organisations interested in this opportunity to: - Register an expression of interest, using the contract reference number SCHPH00174 for this procurement process on our E tendering Alito system http://www.staffordshire.alito.co.uk/ and download the specification and feedback form.