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HubCAPP Awards
Voting for the HubCAPP Awards opened on Thursday 14 Jan. The awards aim to recognise the many exceptional people and exceptional organisations working to prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm in England. Two awards are available: 'HubCAPP Project of the Year' and 'HubCAPP Most Useful Project of the Year'.
Vote for one project as 'HubCAPP Project of the Year' For this award you can only vote for one project from the six projects that have been shortlisted by the Alcohol Improvement Programme Board. The six projects are:
'HubCAPP Most Useful Project of the Year' Have you found the information from projects useful? Have you contacted someone from reading their information, or have you used some of their ideas in your own work? If so you can vote for those projects to be 'HubCAPP Most Useful Project of the Year'.
Read the individual projects and follow the vote button to choose your most useful projects.
More information on the HubCAPP awards is available here.
Voting for the HubCAPP Awards runs until 26 February 2010.
From Policy to Project
Norfolk Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy 2008 to 2012
The Norfolk Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy acknowledges that in general, alcohol misuse in Norfolk is at or below the national average. However alcohol misuse still has an adverse impact upon a significant proportion of the Norfolk population.
The development and implementation of the action plans for the strategy are guided by a multi-agency steering group. This group consists of a core membership and people with specialist knowledge in a particular area are invited onto group to help devise action plans on a specific theme.
Three projects are linked to this strategy:
- Norfolk Alcohol Needs Assessment 2007: The needs assessment brought together data from a wide variety of sources to quantify both the health and social costs of alcohol misuse for the population of Norfolk. Link
- Norfolk Think Safe Drink Safe: The "Think Safe - Drink Safe" alcohol and drug awareness campaign has been running for over four years. The campaign is card-based and provides health, social care and crime reduction advice and information for people using the night-time economies of Norfolk.Link
- Norfolk Alcohol and Drug Awareness Training for Licensees : This project was conducted in response to concerns that licensees and Security Industry Authority (SIA) accredited door supervisors lacked a basic understanding of the effects of drugs and alcohol and the law relating to their use. Both the health/social and legal aspects are covered. Link
Read more on the Norfolk Strategy
New additions to the Hub
Coventry Alcohol Hospital Liaison Service
An Alcohol Hospital Liaison Service at University Hospital Coventry which aims to deliver fewer readmissions related to alcohol, greater uptake of community services, and training of staff in alcohol awareness.
Swanswell's Netmums Project
In conjunction with the Netmum's website, the project aims to deliver vital drug and alcohol advice and support to up to half a million parents online. The help available targets many hard to reach people and affords anonymous posting on the website forums.
Hampshire Pharmacy Alcohol Brief Intervention Pilot Project
As part of the Hampshire Innovation Fund, two pilot projects took place in pharmacies in 2009. One was situated in a general pharmacy setting and the other targeted those coming in for Emergency Health Care, in particular young women seeking emergency contraception, often as result of excess alcohol use the previous day.
Hartlepool Straight Line Project
The Straight-Line project works with 10-17 year olds who have been identified as drinking on the streets. When the Police and Anti Social Behaviour Unit (ASBU) come across a young person in this situation they will refer them into the programme after speaking with them and confiscating the alcohol.
Kingston Down Your Drink (DYD)
DownYourDrink (DYD) Kingston is a pilot programme involving an appointment with an Alcohol Project Worker for an assessment and facilitated access to the DYD Kingston website. It is currently offered alongside the local enhanced service (LES) for alcohol in Kingston.
East of England Prison and Hampshire Probation Peer Identification and Brief Advice in Offender Settings
This project uses Offender Health Trainers to deliver Identification and Brief Advice to prisoners. The pilot programme ran in the East of England region prisons and in Hampshire Probation for one year from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010.
Royal Bolton Hospital Collaborative Care for Alcohol related liver disease and harm
The Royal Bolton Hospital aimed to improve and coordinate their care for patients with alcohol-related liver disease and harm by implementing collaborative care team for patients. The multidisciplinary team includes a Consultant Gastroenterologist; Liaison Psychiatrist (with a special interest in substance and alcohol misuse) Alcohol Liaison Nurses and dedicated social worker.