Drugs, alcohol and tobacco support

Ealing Young Person’s Substance Misuse Partnership is a multi agency partnership with the aim to reduce / stop young people using drugs and alcohol, through early intervention, prevention and targeted education, advice, guidance, training, assessment and specialist treatment.

The two main service providers, SAFE and CRI EASY, provide drugs prevention or specialist treatment support as detailed below.

Referral

Please complete the drug use screeing tool (DUST) referral form (pdf) to help decide which service is best placed to meet the needs of the young person. Generally, DUST scores (section 1) that are 6 or below will be allocated to the SAFE early intervention service and those with a score of 7 or above will be allocated to the EASY treatment service.

DUST forms should be sent to:

SAFE - email: Halld@ealing.gov.uk
EASY - email: ede.eruero@cri.org.uk

The SAFE (Supportive Action for Families in Ealing) early intervention substance misuse service.

SAFE provide early intervention and prevention services in a variety of settings to children and young people at risk of substance misuse:

one to one consultations in schools both to pupils and teaching staff
lunchtime drop in sessions to students both individually and in groups
targeted substance misuse awareness education sessions

SAFE also provide drugs awareness and training for teachers, youth workers and professionals.

Contact: David Hall
Tel:(020) 8825 6859 or 07903 238 679
Email: Halld@ealing.gov.uk

CRI EASY - specialist treatment service provider

The treatment provider service supports young people whose substance misuse is at a level where it significantly disrupts the young persons functioning. CRI EASY provide the specialist treatment as defined by the National Treatment Agency as

“…a care planned medical, psychosocial or harm reduction interventions aimed at alleviating current harm caused by a young person’s substance misuse.”

psychosocial interventions – programme of one to one, care planned support for young people.
specialist harm reduction - including needle exchange and access to medical assessment for blood borne viruses
pharmacological – substitute prescribing for opiate users
family work – one off family supported or structured support to family around child’s substance misuse

Contact: Ede Eruero
Tel:(020) 8810 1528 or 07500 667 492
Email: Ede.Eruero@cri.org.uk
CRI Easy website

Useful documents

Smoking

Smoking lesson plan (word)
Tobacco education lesson plan and accompanying presentation for use with Key Stage 3 students. Please contact Rachael Davis to get a copy of the presentation that supports the lesson plans.
Email: rachael.davis@nhs.net
Tel: 0800 876 6683
Mob: 07949 917618

Operation smoke storm for key stage 3 (word)
A free, online schools resource aimed at key stage 3 students.

Operation smoke storm for key stage 3 - crib sheet (word)

School smoke free policy template (pdf)