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Mentor UK wishes to appoint a
LONDON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
With the support of the City Bridge Trust, Mentor UK, the UK’s leading drug and alcohol misuse prevention charity, wishes to recruit a Development Officer to develop and manage the new Mentor UK London Youth Involvement Project. The project focuses on substance misuse prevention activities which will benefit young people and those with responsibilities towards them.
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EU Kinship Carers Project Website
Mentor UK has recently launched a website for the EU Kinship Carers project. The project will work across 7 countries - Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom - to support the needs of families where kinship carers are looking after children because of the drug or alcohol problems of their parents.
> Visit the website...
In the News: Consultation on Children, Young People and Alcohol
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has recently published draft guidance from the Chief Medical Officer in order to help young people to make sensible decisions about drinking, and to support parents to protect their children from the harms associated with early alcohol use.
> Read more on how to have your say...
Mentor UK continues to increase its profile as the leading UK agency working to prevent drug related harm to children and young people. We are working with government departments and other agencies to influence and effect prevention policy. We have also established a database with more than 1,700 contacts, both supporters and influencers, and over 1,200 people now receive our six-monthly newsletter.
To take forward our prevention activities, Mentor UK's Trustees agreed a five-year Strategic Plan which focuses, as with our previous Plan, on four key objectives, within an international context:
• To influence drug misuse prevention policy
• To support good practice in drug misuse prevention
• To support drug misuse prevention research
• To increase the profile of Mentor and drug misuse prevention
Mentor UK's Annual Review for 2007/8, including project reports and a financial summary is available for download here (PDF).
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