Extern’s Belfast Connections team plays a crucial role in educating, raising awareness & supporting local communities with existing and emerging alcohol and substance related issues.
Our Services
Connections - Belfast Drug and Alcohol Coordination Team
Connections BDACT develops and delivers integrated education and prevention plans to raise awareness of the impact of drugs and alcohol locally.
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The Public Health Agency funds a Connections Service in each of the Health Trust areas in Northern Ireland, whose role is to take forward local campaigns and initiatives in relation to drug and alcohol issues. Extern hosts the Connections team for the Belfast area within BDACT – Belfast Drug & Alcohol Co-ordination Team.
The team provides prevention and early intervention guidance and delivers awareness raising sessions and training to community stakeholders, and signposts to drug and alcohol services within the area and assist to generate relevant social media content for regional PHA campaigns.
Belfast Connections work alongside the regional Connections service, collaborating on NI campaigns such as Alcohol Awareness Week & Dry January. The Connections service participates in delivery of the action plan agreed by PHA & the Belfast Drug and Alcohol Coordination Team (BDACT) within the local community.
Our Connections workers use a range of communications skills and substance/ alcohol related knowledge to engage with local communities. This includes locality specific insight into new and emerging substances of use and trends resulting from these.