Directory of Services
2012
Fife Alcohol & Drug
Partnership
This booklet is intended to provide basic information about specialist substance misuse services in Fife.
Individual services will be happy to provide you with more details of the variety of work that they deliver, including details of
opening hours and venues. Some services operate from a number of venues across Fife.
Please bear in mind that details can change and if you are
experiencing any difficulty in contacting any of the services listed, please contact the ADP support team
Telephone: 08451 55 55 55 Ext: 44 61 53 Email: Alcohol.DrugInfo@fife.gov.uk
Contents
Strategy Themes – Prevention and Protection ... 3
Barnardo’s ... 3
Clued Up Project... 4
Strategy Theme – Recovery... 5
Addaction Scotland ... 5
C Clear (Addaction) ... 5
NHS Fife Addiction Services ... 6
Drug & Alcohol Project Limited (DAPL)... 7
Fife Intensive Rehabilitation Substance Misuse Team... 8
Next Steps ... 9
ADAPT ... 10
Fife Alcohol Support Service... 10
Fife ADP Directory of Services
Strategy Themes – Prevention and
Protection
Barnardo’s
West Bridge Mill Street, Kirkcaldy
Tel: 01592 265294
Website: www.barnardos.org.uk
Barnardo’s Scotland has been working in Scotland for more than a century. Their purpose is to reach out to the most disadvantaged children, young people, families and communities to help ensure that every child has the best possible start in life. They aim to make sure that every young person is able to reach their full potential, whatever their circumstances in life.
In Fife Barnardo’s are delivering:
• A school based substance misuse education
programme to all primary 7, secondary 2 and 3 as well as targeted input to those under 18s considered ‘most at risk’. (Service brief 1)
Clued Up Project
The Bunker, Unit 9 Coal Wynd Kirkcaldy, KY1 2RB
Tel: 01592 858248
Email: cubunker@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.cluedupdrugs.org.uk/
Clued Up provides a comprehensive ‘youth friendly’ drug information and support service which also targets the wider issues of general wellbeing and lifestyle to young people under 25 in the Kirkcaldy area and homeless young people aged 16–25 years old who are affected by
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Strategy Theme – Recovery
Addaction Scotland
Unit 8 Hanover Court, North Street,
Glenrothes, KY7 5SB
Tel: 01592 619 090 Fax: 01592 769 820
Email: fife@addaction.org.uk Website: www.addaction.org.uk Freephone: 0800 971 9211
Local Contact: Joe Omond, Manager Email: Joe.Omond@addaction.org.uk
Specialist Harm Reduction Service (Service brief 4), triage and referral.
Addaction also provide the C Clear - Peer Education Project in Fife. This offers support, advice and information on issues related to hepatitis C. The project runs weekly support groups that meet for two hours in Dunfermline, Glenrothes, Methil and Kirkcaldy. Each group is supported by Peer Educators/Mentors, most of whom are currently on treatment for hepatitis C.
NHS Fife Addiction Services
Ward 11,
Cameron Hospital, Windygates, KY8 5RR
Telephone: 01592 716446
Provide stabilisation & prescribing services (Service brief 5a) for people who have drug or/and alcohol problems who reside in Fife.
Treatment options include substitute prescribing, opioid detoxification, benzodiazepine detoxification, alcohol detoxification and prescribing for relapse prevention.
How to access Services
People wishing to access the service can present at one of the drop-ins operating in Fife where triage assessment will be undertaken and the person signposted to the most appropriate service to meet their identified needs. Up to date drop-in information can be found through the ‘drop-in clinics in Fife’ tab on the ADP website at:
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Drug & Alcohol Project Limited (DAPL)
1 - 2 Parkdale Avenue Park Drive
Leven KY8 5AQ
Tel: 01333 422277
Email: daplevenmouth@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.dapl.net
The Drug and Alcohol Project Limited (DAPL) is a community-based information, advice, counselling (Service brief 5b) support service for individuals, young people and families who are affected by drug and alcohol use in the Levenmouth, Central and North East Fife areas. Their service for people who are homeless operates across the whole of Fife as does the service to Fife Drug Court.
Fife Intensive Rehabilitation Substance Misuse
Team
3 South Fergus Place Kirkcaldy
KY1 1YA
Tel: 01592 585960
Email: enquiries@firstforfife.co.uk
Website: www.firstforfife.co.uk
FIRST provides a Fife wide community based
rehabilitation service (Service brief 5c) to people with substance misuse issues (both drugs and alcohol) via one to one, group and volunteer support.
FIRST also works in partnership with Fife NHS Addiction Services to provide the Prescribing and Rehabilitation Service (PARS), which offers both treatment and rehabilitation to clients with drug issues.
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Next Steps
Next Steps 441 High Street Kirkcaldy
KY1 2SN
Telephone: 0844 371 0127 Fax: (01592) 268 894
E-mail: nextsteps@carnegiecollege.ac.uk
Next Steps (Carnegie College) delivers a specialist substance misuse employability and training
programme (Service brief 6). Providing opportunities to identify personal skills, motivation and the knowledge required to make informed decisions. The project provides a confidence building, job training, basic education, IT competency, literacy and life skills training programme to reflect the varied support needs of outlined participants.
Next Steps supports long term unemployed people in overcoming a range of barriers to access and pursue employment, further training or education. As examples, participants may have a history of drug and/or alcohol misuse (or have been affected by another), may have/had mild mental health issues and or physical illness or have experienced homelessness. Participants may be resident in a datazone area and/or may have family/relationship
ADAPT
17 Tolbooth Street Kirkcaldy
KY1 1RW
Freephone: 0800 111 4431
ADAPT is a brand new service for the community provided by a partnership of Fife Alcohol Support Service and the Fife Community Drug Service. It offers advice and help for anyone concerned about alcohol and recreational drugs use or the misuse of prescribed medications. www.wo.uk
Fife Alcohol Support Service
17 Tolbooth Street Kirkcaldy
KY1 1RW
Tel: 01592 206200
Email: enquiries@fife-alcohol-support.org.uk
Website: www.fassaction.org.uk
Provides advice, one-to-one counselling, group work, self-help, and alcohol education courses throughout Fife for people with alcohol problems. The service can be accessed by telephone and through health centres.
Fife Community Drugs Service
8 Viewfield Terrace Dunfermline KY12 7HZ
Tel: 01383 732613 Email:mail@wfcdt.co.uk
Website:www.wfcdt.co.uk
Provides counselling, needle exchange, outreach service, training and information for drug users including young people aged under 18 years of age. Family support offered to those affected by another’s substance misuse.
