The team's work includes sexual health, drugs and alcohol and
promoting health in prison and involves strategy and policy
development, training frontline staff, distributing condoms,
providing needle exchange and other safer injecting paraphernalia,
producing health promotion resources and undertaking general sexual
health and prevention with targeted populations as part of the
local strategy.
The service is made up of a range of staff who all have
experience in public health. They work across Manchester with young
people in care, prisoners, and ex offenders, male and female sex
workers, street homeless, injecting drug users, students, the
lesbian and gay community, black and minority ethnic community and
vulnerable young people. This work is provided through a range of
settings including hostels, children's homes, brothels and saunas,
Manchester Prison, drop in centres, harm reduction and needle
exchange services, pubs and clubs and off licences, supported
accommodation and third sector agencies.
They reach the public in a range of ways including partnership
working with the third, acute and private sector, provision of
services at community clinics and a range of outreach venues. The
public can also receive information through resources and health
promotion campaigns.
Contact details
Telephone: 0161 248 1767