Community Engagement Sub-Committee

Purpose

The purpose of the Community Engagement Sub-Committee is to:

• Strengthen the service user and carer involvement, advisory and consultative roles of the Alcohol, Drug and BBV Fora and engage with Public Partnership Fora, the Citizens Panel and each of the six Local Community Planning Groups.
• Drive effective community engagement to guide the ADAT and its sub-groups in their decision making processes. Develop methods to understand the needs of service users, carers and those not accessing services and the community in which they live.
• Seek out the experiences of people with alcohol or other drug problems and their carers and those communities affected by alcohol or other drug fuelled crime.
• Publicise the work of the ADAT and its partners.
• Use national media and public awareness initiatives effectively within the local context without duplication of effort. Develop a strategic response in the promotion of effective substance misuse education for the public, producing advice, proposals and guidance to specific target groups.
• Develop and maintain an Aberdeenshire ADAT Website and podcast presence.
• Improve information sharing, post agendas, papers and minutes on a publicly available website. Presume all data is publically available other than that covered by data protection and freedom of information exemption legislation.
• Oversee the work of the Education short-life working group.
• Oversee the work and recommnedations from the ethnic minorities project - click here to the Ethnic Minorities page

Leadership