A 香港六合彩精准资料 accredited service that specialises in supporting families affected by substance use is celebrating 25 years of changing lives.
marked its silver jubilee with an open morning at its headquarters in Fife in Scotland.
More than 100 people attended the get-together including members of staff, volunteers and local agencies. The event was also attended by DAPL鈥檚 patrons, charity worker Eleanor Bowman and actor Clive Russell, who stars in a marking the service鈥檚 25th anniversary.
John Kennedy, area coordinator and accredited 香港六合彩精准资料 counsellor, said: 鈥淭here was a huge amount of pride in the work that DAPL has done over the last 25 years.
鈥淭he idea was to bring together all of the different agencies and partners that we work with on a day-to-day basis, education, local government, Barnardo鈥檚.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 work in isolation. It was important to bring people together and allow them to make new connections.鈥�
鈥淚t was a really good day.鈥�
Community
DAPL was launched in 1994 following concern in the local community at the numbers of alcohol and drug-related deaths.
John said: 鈥淭he people directly affected by these horrific incidents didn鈥檛 feel that they were being supported.
鈥淭hey did some research and thought that what would best fit their needs was a counselling service. That came from the community and we have always held to counselling. The community asked for it and it鈥檚 what we have delivered.鈥�
Since 1994, DAPL has received more than 18,000 referrals for adult counselling and more than 8,000 referrals for young person counselling.
Counselling
鈥淲e have always had a role, sadly,鈥� said John. 鈥淎nd, sadly, our work is far from done.
鈥淲e are seeing a couple of hundred people a week across Fife 鈥� our service delivery is pretty intense.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 hopeful is the work we have been doing over the last six years in talking to education and the local authority and others about the need for generic counselling beyond drug and alcohol, around things like anxiety, depression, self-harm, trauma.
鈥淭alking therapy is higher on people鈥檚 agenda than it has ever been before, which is really positive.鈥�