Public Health Agency

Name of contract:             

Community Based services for Young People who are identified as having Substance Misuse difficulties

 Organisations awarded:       

This contract has been awarded to the following organisations who will deliver the services in their specific lot areas:

Public Health Agency

Name of contract:             

Community Based Early Intervention Services for Adults and Family Members Affected by Substance Misuse

Organisations awarded:       

This contract has been awarded to the following organisations who will deliver the services in their specific lot areas:

Public Health Agency

Name of contract:             

Provision of Support, Care, Facilitation and Harm Reduction Services for People who are misusing Substances (Low Threshold Services)

Organisations awarded:       

This contract has been awarded to the following organisations who will deliver programmes in their specific lot areas:

Public Health Agency

Name of contract:             

Therapeutic Services for Children, Young People and Families Affected by Parental Substance Misuse

Organisations awarded:       

This contract has been awarded to the following organisations who will deliver the services in their specific lot areas:

Barnardo's Northern Ireland:     Belfast HSCT & South Eastern HSCT

This bulletin summarises information on individuals referred to the Northern Ireland Substitute Prescribing Scheme (SPS). It relates to those referred up to and including the 31 March 2015 and focuses on those patients in contact with Substitute Prescribing treatment services during 2014/15.

Public Health Agency - 002

Name of contract: Awareness Programmes to support Mental and Emotional Health and Wellbeing- Tier 1 Programmes

Organisation awarded:   This contract has been awarded to the following organisation who will deliver programmes throughout Northern Ireland:

Lot 1 & 2 - Action Mental Health

Public Health Agency - 001

Name of contract: Relationship and Sexuality Education in the Community across Northern Ireland

Organisations awarded: This contract has been awarded to following four organisations who will deliver programmes throughout Northern Ireland:

Brook NI

Love for Life

ACET (Northern Ireland) Ltd

Rainbow Health Ltd

Public Health Agency - 003

Name of contract: Services to support the mental and emotional wellbeing needs of Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender individuals and their families across Northern Ireland

Organisations awarded: This contract has been awarded to the following two organisations who will deliver programmes throughout Northern Ireland:

Rainbow Health Ltd:  Lot 1 ­ Lesbian and Bisexual Women

We want to know what you think about the AHP services for your child.

We will also seek views of AHPs and teachers who work with your children and we will use them all to inform our decisions.

This phase of the review is focusing on current AHP services for children/young people with a statement of special educational needs enrolled in mainstream schools and learning support centres/units attached to a mainstream school.

‘Coughing’ bus shelters to raise awareness of lung cancer

Northern Ireland’s first ‘coughing’ bus shelters, created as part of an innovative Public Health Agency (PHA) campaign to raise awareness of the key signs of lung cancer, have started appearing on the streets of Belfast and Derry/ Londonderry. The coughing shelters form part of the latest phase of the PHA’s ‘Be Cancer Aware’ campaign and are specially built to cough intermittently when people are waiting for a bus.