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Welcome to the Lancashire Volunteering Project
The volunteering project is a project lead by Volunteer Co-ordinators and Volunteers to drug using individuals, their carers and workers within Preston and Lancashire. The service is centre based and works strongly with voluntary and statutory bodies.
The support the project can offer includes:
The helpline for many is the first point of contact for service users. It is used by service users, carers and workers concerned with drug use. The helpline covers all drug use, whether legal or illegal, and at experimental, recreational and dependant levels of use. The helpline offers ease of access ensuring extended hours and ease of access to treatment with initial support and appointment booking opportunities until 9.30pm on weekday evenings (apart from Friday, which is 5pm).
- Structured centre based counselling
Service users who wish more on-going support can receive confidential counselling. This service is open to both users and carers and is staffed by qualified counsellors.
- Drop-in counselling support
As above.
- Information and advice
- Needle exchange service
The needle exchange is a provision that is open 12 hours per day Monday – Thursday and 7 hours on a Friday. Health education has remained a priority for the service with continued utilisation of safer injecting practice information, overdosing, HIV, Hepatitis B and C and harm minimisation.
The rationale of the Befriending Project is to actively encourage the inclusion of drug users in our community by enabling them to participate in community activities with a trained volunteer who can offer help and support. The befriending project can also be accessed to support service users with assistance in attending appointments etc if they struggle in one to one settings etc.
- Accredited training of our volunteers
The accredited volunteer learning allows the assurance of a representative work force for the substance use workers of tomorrow with access to a lvel 3 and bespoke level 2 accredited learning package from OCN and practice opportunities through open access service, young carers project.
You can contact the Volunteer Co-ordinators, Shelley Mullarkey & Amy Nutter on:
Tel: 01772 253840
2 Union Court
Union Street
Preston
PR1 2HD
Alternatively by email: smullarkey@druglinelancs.co.uk
avnutter@druglinelancs.co.uk
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