Guidelines for the community care & drug & alcohol sector
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Management response
to inhalant use
These operational guidelines were developed to underpin the management by front line workers employed in DHS funded services of people using inhalants. They cover assessment, clinical management and follow up of people using inhalants.
DHS has a clear policy that does not permit the passive observation/supervision of clients using inhalants.
The two key audiences for these guidelines are out-of-home care services and alcohol and drug treatment services.
Out-of-home care includes:
- Kith and kin: This involves placement with family, relatives or friends
that have been approved by DHS
- Foster care: Provided by volunteer foster carers who care for children
or young people in their home
- Shared family care: This placement option targets children and young people
with either/or a developmental delay/intellectual disability
- Adolescent community placement: This involves home based care in volunteer
carers' home for young people
- High-risk adolescent 1 to 1 care: This is a specialised home-based care
option which offers specially recruited carers looking after one very high
risk and challenging young person
- Residential care: This option is primarily for young people over 12 years
of age. These units are staffed on 24 hour basis
Alcohol and drug treatment services include youth services, withdrawal services, residential rehabilitation, and counselling services along with other specialist alcohol and drug treatment services.
These guidelines aim to:
- Clarify minimum expectation regarding duty of care responsibilities
- Clarify minimum expectation regarding strategies to respond to inhalant
use
- Promote consistent and high quality interventions for people abusing inhalants
- Broaden the menu of options available to workers
- Be used as a learning tool for workers new to the field or those with little
experience or knowledge of interventions for inhalant use
- Be useful and appropriate for workers across diverse fields, those working
in different settings, modalities of treatment and geographic locations
- Be adaptable to different environments in which people work
- Be user friendly, simple and client specific.
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Below are information sheets that contain vital information that you can easily and quickly access in a critical situation:
Inhalant information sheet - Short term interventions (92kb, pdf)
Inhalant information sheet - If conscious (58kb, pdf)
Inhalant information sheet - If unconscious (74kb, pdf)
Inhalant information sheet - Contacts in an emergency (75kb, pdf)
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