Project name | Type of setting(s) | Target group age | Activities | Time | Agencies | ABI service | Screening tool |
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Aspen | Community diversionary (sport) | 15–17 years | Football coaching | Friday evenings | NHS health improvement team, youth provider (football coaching), voluntary sector alcohol organisation, police | Football coaches offer screening and basic feedback with registration | CRAFFT |
Bracken | Mobile outreach | 14–16 years | Team of 4 (youth worker, nurse, police officer, detached youth worker) on customised bus driven to young people, usually following intelligence and referrals | Friday evenings | Voluntary sector substances misuse and information service for young people, NHS health improvement, community learning and development detached youth team, police | Screening and ABIs offered by youth worker or nurse on board bus. Includes card game to structure thinking. Individual or paired. Less structured conversations take place outside the bus. Follow-up at school by youth worker. | CRAFFT |
Elder | Community diversionary (sport) | 10–18 years | Indoor and outdoor sports coaching | Weekday evenings | Local authority leisure services (sports development), NHS (training and support) | Opportunistic conversations about alcohol with coaches at side of pitch | Not used |
Fir | Hybrid (centre based; outreach; streetwork; diversionary) | 12–21 years | Open access drop-in, group activities, appointment-based support and counselling, schools, youth clubs and facilities, streetwork, sport, outdoor activities, wilderness residential experiences | Flexible | Confidential health and well-being centre and service for young people, streetwork team, community youth organisations | ABIs offered as appropriate by Fir staff (youth workers). Individuals or small groups. | CRAFFT |
Hawthorn | Pilot project – training delivered | Not clear | Training targeted at organisations working with young people who don’t access traditional services | Not known | Training by Alcohol & Drugs Partnership and national workforce development organisation. Implementation by football coaches, council and voluntary sector youth workers, NHS health improvement and psychological therapies staff. | Not known | CRAFFT |
Juniper | Police-referred | 12–18 years | Young people identified through routine police work | Negotiated | Third sector children’s organisation, police, Alcohol & Drugs Partnership (funder) | Project arranged to see young person at home/place of choice for ABI. Telephone follow-up after 3 months. | Customised |
Myrtle | Hybrid (centre-based; outreach; streetwork; diversionary) | 11–17 years | Mentoring, intensive support, drug and alcohol outreach, streetwork, mobile street football | Flexible | Voluntary sector social services organisation, Alcohol & Drugs Partnership, police, social work, education, community learning and development, street pastors | Offered by Myrtle staff as a normalised part of practice to introduce young people to the service and structure decision-making | Approach taken from national policy guidance document [2] |
Pine | Drop-in centre | 13–18 years | Drop in centre (sexual health, housing, support, employment or relationship concerns, substance use) | 6 days a week | Confidential health, information and peer-led service for young people, NHS, local authority | ABIs offered as appropriate by staff (sexual health nurses, community learning and development worker, health promotion workers) | CRAFFT |
Rowan | Police-referred | 12–17 years | Young people identified through intelligence-led targeted police campaigns and brought to the police station. Parents are called in if <16. | Friday evenings | Police, voluntary sector youth project, voluntary sector drug and alcohol service | Young people introduced to the team, then ABI offered by voluntary sector organisation the following week | FAST |