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Table 1 Project approaches to ABI delivery

From: Delivery of alcohol brief interventions in community-based youth work settings: exploring feasibility and acceptability in a qualitative study

Project name

Type of setting(s)

Target group age

Activities

Time

Agencies

ABI service

Screening tool

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

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