Start 360 provide:

The Connections service works to develop and deliver drug and/or alcohol-related projects, events and initiatives whilst working closely with local community groups and forums, service user representatives and/or networks and with drug and alcohol service providers to ensure that the DACT is made aware of any emerging trends, issues of concern and gaps or pressures in service delivery.

DAISY North provides information and advice on the effects of alcohol and drugs and we will work with you on a one-to-one basis to reduce the harm caused by substance use. Our staff help clients to reduce risk taking behaviours, to sustain positive changes in their lives and to have healthier relationships. 

The support DAISY North can offer includes brief interventions, mentoring, counselling, group work, family support and systemic family work. Our staff include qualified social workers and counsellors, some of whom are also trained play therapists.  

We can take self-referrals, or referrals from friends, family members or professionals such as GPs or teachers.

The Targeted Life Skills service provides Life Skills Training (LST), based on recent research, which teaches how simply telling young people the dangers of alcohol and drugs is not enough to stop this risk taking behavior. LST provides young people with the opportunity to look at their life holistically - by doing this it enables the problem of substance abuse to be address at many levels. During the programme the young people enhance their health information, general life skills and drug resistance skills.

The service is offer to young people age 11-13yrs, 14-15yrs and 16-21yrs and is delivered in a group setting. There has to be a minimum of four sessions delivered, up to a maximum of eight.

There has been great feedback from service users who have said that they really enjoyed the programme and gained some valuable knowledge that they were able to implement into their day to day lives.

VOICES aims to work directly with the child or young person through therapeutic mentoring, individual counselling, group-therapy, play-therapy and systemic family intervention. 

The program is designed to provide support for children and young people of substance misusing parents/adults andsupports the whole family unit.  

VOICES offers support to the substance misusing parent/adult, including brief one to one support, group therapy, and support to access and engage with local addiction specialist services.