Young Persons Service

DAPL’s Young Person’s Service offers a confidential one to one counselling, support, information and advice service to any young person under the age of 18 who is affected by their own or another’s substance use.

Any young person who is living in Fife can access DAPL’s services. DAPL’s Young Person’s Service also provides a service to support the parents and carers of young people who are concerned about their child’s/young person’s substance use.

The service supports young people and their families throughout Fife by providing:

• Confidential 1:1 counselling, information, advice and supportCondom distribution and pregnancy testing
• Delivering group work sessions to raise awareness of substances and their effects
• Networking with a variety of agencies to meet individuals needs
• Developing skills and knowledge through multi agency training and specific identified issue based training
• Improving accessibility to the service by providing outreach and an out of hour’s service
• Continual assessment of client needs and to clearly identify the needs of vulnerable young people and the support that is offered to them and their families
• Delivering multi agency training in local schools and youth community groups
• Identifying gaps in service and service delivery and raising issues at relevant strategy groups.