Teenage girl

One evening an outreach worker introduced herself to a teenage girl who was using drugs but had never before had help.

She was homeless and sleeping rough on the streets. Her life was chaotic and she found it difficult to trust people so she was unlikely to have found help had we not found her. However, when she was offered an assessment she agreed.

She kept her appointment and was helped to access medical support and kept in touch with the outreach worker who she had met on that first evening. She is now accessing substitute prescribing and has bed and breakfast accommodation.