NewLink Wales

Substance Misuse Volunteering & Training

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Welcome to NewLink Wales

NewLink Wales is an independent substance misuse organisation operating throughout Wales. We link:

Volunteers to agencies
Agencies to training
Communities to services

We work in partnership with Welsh organisations and agencies operating frontline services to substance misusers.

We recruit, train, place and support volunteers with agencies throughout Wales whose remit includes substance misuse.

We provide training for existing workers and professionals working in agencies whose client group may include substance misusers, offering accredited and DANOS-matched courses. We also offer training for qualifications including NVQs in support of workforce development.

We offer a substance-misuse information service to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities, and provide support to families, raising awareness and giving information and choices to support users into treatment. Our Volunteer Co-ordinator recruits volunteers from the communities to work with young users and support people in their own languages.

The MILE programme has been developed to harness the valuable experiences of ex-users.

You can read more about our objectives here.

We have grown and developed over what seems a short period of time, and we hope to continue to consult and work in partnership with agencies to provide the highest of standards in all our services. The following pages will give you more information about us.

	Supported by the Big Lottery Fund
	City & Guilds Approved Centre
	Investing in Volunteers Awarded Quality Standard First in Wales, Aug 2005
Registered with the National Council for Education & Training for Wales as a provider of ILA Wales learning