Evaluation of the youth alcohol & drug outreach services

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As part of the Victorian Government's Turning the Tide Strategy Against Drug Abuse, a major initiative has been the funding of new services for young people up to the age of 21 years with alcohol and drug problems. In June 1997 youth alcohol and drug outreach services were funded across the nine Human Services' Regions in Victoria. Youth alcohol and drug outreach services provide assessment, support and ongoing case coordination to young people in their own environment utilising flexible treatment options. Working closely with other generalist services, they seek to minimise the harms caused by the young person's misuse of alcohol and drugs.

Commissioned by Drug Treatment Services Program Department of Human Services 1999 © State of Victoria, June 2000 Published by Department of Human Services, Victoria

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Executive summary
• Executive summary recommendations
• Victoria's alcohol and drug services for young people
• Evaluation rationale and methodology
• The historical origins of outreach work
• Features of effective outreach work
• Overview of the youth alcohol and drug outreach services
• Setting up the new youth outreach services
• Features of the young people seen
• The youth alcohol and drug outreach practitioners
• Models of outreach work with young people
• How do the youth alcohol and drug outreach services rate?
• What have the youth outreach services done well?
  Conclusions and recommendations
• References
• Appendices

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