All About DECCA
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Who Are We?
The DECCA (Drug Education, Counselling and Confidential Advice) Team are Sandwell MBC's young people's alcohol and drug service. The team work with any young person that lives in the Sandwell area aged 18 or under and the agencies that work with them.
DECCA cover everything from education in mainstream schools and the community all the way to working with someone who is experiencing issues with drugs such as alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, volatile substances and class A drugs.
The key services to tell you about are:
- Educational resources for mainstream schools and community organisations
- Educational sessions, delivered as part of a wider programme, for mainstream schools and community organisations
- Training for workers and professionals (accredited and non accredited)
- Policy and procedure development
- Support in dealing with drug related incidents
- Multi-media information decemination service - stalls, web sites, campaigns etc
- Targeted brief interventions focusing on harm minimisation
- Smoking Cessation (Stop Smoking) Service
- Treatment for any young person using a drug(s)
- Substitutue Prescribing
- Holistic Therapies
DECCA produce a range of resources for professionals and young people and have won awards and recognition from the Department of Health, most recently as a model of good practice for the educational resources they produce.
To refer a young person(s) you can:
- Complete a DECCA Team Referral Form for an individual you are concerned about
- Complete a DECCA Team Group Education Referral Form for a group education session on general drug issues
- Call with a referral for yourself or another
NB: as long as a person is willing to be worked with, is a resident of Sandwell and is 18 years or younger we are able to work with them.
Referring an individual
To start with it is important to say that DECCA offer a confidential service. This means that we do not, in the majority of circumstances, have to tell anyone if you or someone you have referred to us, is working with us.
If you want to refer yourself or someone you know or work with to DECCA then there are 2 ways to do this.
- It can be as simple as giving us a call on 0845 838 5317. You will be asked to give us a few details and an appointment can be made.
- You can complete the attatched form (click here) and either e-mail, fax or post it back to us. We would then make the necessary contacts to enable us to arrange an appoinment.
The only thing we ask is that the person being referred is under the age of 19 and agrees to at least meet with a worker, we cannot force someone into treatment.
Click here to download the referring form in .pdf format
Click here to download the referring form in .doc format
Referring a group
To refer a group you can complete the attatched form (click here) and either e-mail, fax or post it back to us.
We would then make the necessary contacts to enable us to arrange an session.
