Ireland – Health services – DRIVE lead post for NE area to cover Louth Meath and Cavan Monaghan

HSE Addiction Services in CHO8 and CHO1 wish to receive tenders from suitably qualified Service Providers for a Community based DRIVE (Drug Related Intimidation and Violence Engagement) lead post for NE area to cover Louth Meath and Cavan Monaghan. In drug and alcohol treatment and support, it is accepted that service users have diverse and multiple needs and it is unlikely that any single agency can provide everything that is needed to address the issues contained within this cycle of need. There are a number of different services in every community. Each of these agencies is guided by its own mandate and each provides a specific service to that community. While recognising the individual integrity and ethos of services it is necessary that they engage in co-operative interagency working to gather and retain more people within the treatment and support process. The National Drugs Rehabilitation Framework (NDRF) illustrates inter agency working between services in all of the four tiers and their role in engaging service users in their treatment and rehabilitation journey. DRIVE is an interagency project, which outlines systems and structures to respond to drug related intimidation and associated violence in Ireland. It is overseen by the National DRIVE Oversight Committee (DOC), which has members from the HSE, National Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Unit, the Regional and Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force Coordinators Networks, Department of Justice, HRB, National Voluntary Drug and Alcohol Sector and the Probation Services. Its key objective is to build the capacity of communities around Ireland to respond to drug-related intimidation and violence (DRIV).