What's happening in and around Druglink
March 2024
Druglink have been selected to receive funding through The Department of Health and Social Care’s Suicide Prevention Grant Fund. A total of 79 organisations - both national charities and small community-led charities - have been chosen to support people with their mental health and prevent suicides.
Druglink proposed opening an out-of-hours Suicide Prevention Service in the evenings and at weekends, a provision that is currently lacking in the area. The service programme will focus on mental health issues, including understanding suicide risk, coping strategies and resilience, substance misuse, domestic abuse, crisis intervention and trauma-informed care, with a schedule of groups and workshops to help adults in the area who need support, particularly those in high-risk vulnerable groups.
This is an important milestone in delivering the suicide prevention strategy, which sets out the government’s actions to prevent self-harm, suicide and save lives.
December 2023
We are delighted to announce that Druglink has been approved by Advantage Accreditations as an Accredited Training Centre, with all our Diversion courses achieving an official accreditation and all Diversion facilitators becoming accredited trainers!
WE ARE NOW THE ONLY DRUG AND ALCOHOL DIVERSION PROVIDER IN THE UK TO HAVE RECEIVED ACCREDITATION SPECIFICALLY FOR OUR EDUCATION AND TRAINING INTERVENTIONS!
This accreditation reflects our dedication to providing comprehensive, meaningful interventions, whilst continuing to deliver our aims of education and support to prevent reoffending and reduce low level crimes related to substance use.