The Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) meets every two months at the Municipal Buildings, Falkirk. At these meetings local substance use issues are discussed and measures for tackling them are considered. These issues and the measures for tackling them form the basis of a Local Action Plans, that are seen to be locally owned and derive benefit from the participation of those organisations and community groups who are closest to the problem. They bring realism and a local perception that assists the process.
WHAT DOES THE ADP DO?
The ADP’s main task is to identify what the local substance use issues are, what the main local concerns are. It does this by contributing to the formulation of Local Action Plans that are used to inform the strategic aims of the Forth Valley Alcohol & Drug Partnership(ADP). In this way, they assist in the building of a developing strategy that ensures the interface between local, Forth Valley wide and national strategies. They also have an input to decisions about how monies identified for substance misuse services are spent. This influence can be seen in the way the ADP supported the notion of providing a tier one service for substance misusers that is firmly rooted in the community and is delivered by a consortium of community groups.
