Transcript Alcohol and Housing 17th March 2009

Alcohol and Housing
17th March 2009 – Pride Park Derby
Mike Murray
Head of Service – Drugs Strategy, Alcohol
Strategy, Priority Prolific Offending and Housing
Community Safety Partnership/NHS Derby City
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Links between Alcohol and Housing
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Explore the ways alcohol impacts upon housing
Discuss targets and monitoring
Outline the Derby position and our work
There is a basic premise to this presentation…
Housing is one of the basic human needs
Poor quality, insecure or lack of housing
undermines all efforts to improve lives.
Offering treatment and tackling alcohol related
anti-social behaviour are part of a joint approach
Reports from the front line
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Case study examples of the impact of alcohol
upon the individual and the community
Health
Anti-social behaviour
And violence
What we are told we have to do
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LAA Targets (and all of the rest of them)
Improve health
Reduce hospital admissions
Reduce re-offending
Reduce anti-social behaviour
Reduce violent crime
To do these things we need to change the
culture of alcohol use from binge and excessive
use to one of “sensible drinking”
Monitoring
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LAA targets monitoring
NATMS/ local service contract data
Local Needs Assessment
LAPE
Local Housing Reviews
Supporting People data
Rough sleeper counts
Client audits and service user surveys
Derby City Data
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NI 39 league table
Estimated number of people drinking to
hazardous and harmful levels – 30 – 35,000
Those with more urgent treatment dependency
needs 6,000
Number treated 2007/08 (all treatment needs)
less than 400.
Estimated number of dependent drug users –
2,000
Number drug users in treatment 1,660
What we are doing - Strategically
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Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategic Plan and
Action Plan
Strong links to other strategies and plans to
tackle violence, health and housing
Priority for PCT (health) and CSP (violent
crime)
Work in Progress
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Training GPs, Housing Workers, Probation etc…
Alcohol GP Pilot
Clinical Director for Substance Misuse
Homelessness GP and Nurses (mental health)
Step-Up
Wet Unit ( Award winning current/planned
expansion)
Street Drinkers Group
Milestone House
Social marketing
Developing Treatment - Aims
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Increase treatment capacity
Improve accessibility
Increase proportion in brief interventions
Create system throughput
Decrease waiting times
Widen range of services
Engage service users in development
Improve confidence in delivery and
effectiveness
Challenges
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Targets that don’t necessarily help
Fragmentation between themes of
community safety and health
Lack of equity in funding
Victorian values and prejudice
Educating the professionals, the public and
the media
Do as I say and not as I do!
Cultural change takes a lifetime to achieve!
Alcohol Treatment Proposal
Consultation
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Launched on the 9th March and running until
the 8th June
Chance to influence the shape of alcohol
treatment in Derby City
Copies available from
www.saferderby.org.uk
www.derbycitypct.nhs.uk
Or by emailing [email protected]
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www.alcohollearningcentre.org.uk
Contact me on - [email protected]
Thanks to the organisers
Thanks to you for coming
And thanks for listening.
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