An in-depth half-day session online looking at naloxone and the effect it has on reducing drug-related deaths. Followed by a reflective practice session approx. 4 weeks later to consolidate and embed training in practice.

This course will cover the core areas of drug-related deaths on a global, national and local scale, opiate overdose prevention and risk factors and high-risk times for overdose. It explores methods and models of community-based delivery and adult learning.

THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS

Aim

This training aims to increase workers' understanding and knowledge of key issues related HIV, with a particular emphasis on risks associated with drug use and sexual health.

Everyone Has a Story: Children Affected by Parental Substance Use

Aim

This course will support practitioners in adult and children’s services to respond to children affected by parental substance use.

THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM

Aim

This training aims to increase workers' understanding and knowledge of key issues related HIV, with a particular emphasis on risks associated with drug use and sexual health.

THIS TRAINING IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE IN THE GLASGOW AREA

This session will take place via Microsoft Teams

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

• Recall the current trends and emerging trends with benzodiazepines including street valium and unlicensed benzodiazepines.
• Identify the physical and psychological/cognitive effects of benzodiazepines.
• Identify effective strategies and techniques for working with people who use benzodiazepines including harm reduction and anxiety management.
• Describe the role of  benzodiazepines in poly-drug use, overdose and DRDs.
• Identify effective strategies and techniques for working with benzodiazepine users including harm reduction and anxiety management.

Overview

Stigma can have a profound impact upon the lives of people who use alcohol and other drugs or those who have a history of substance use. The impact of stigma can permeate numerous aspects of a person’s life such as their health and wellbeing, relationships, education and employment prospects and socioeconomic status.

Commonly, family, friends, service providers and institutions often place numerous expectations on people who use substances to engage in change behaviour, however, the social context that creates and perpetuates the cycle of stigma is rarely considered or challenged. Through developing a greater awareness of the wider context that the cycle of stigma fosters and exploring our own role in reinforcing and challenging stigma, participants can identify new approaches for fostering enhanced relationships with service users.

Aim

This one-day training will give participants a distinct set of knowledge and skills to help them understand and address alcohol and drug-related stigma.

New interactive online version - 2 live half-day sessions*   9:30-1pm. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND ON BOTH DAYS.

This course will use blended learning to cover issues that vulnerable young people face in relation to sex and drug use, including issues around sexual orientation, gender identity and transactional sex. It aims to help workers to recognise the importance of their role in delivering key messages to promote healthy relationships and harm reduction. The course will cover the different substances and the impact they have on sexual and reproductive health in addition to sex and the law and chemsex. 

*please ensure you  have access to a device with Microsoft Teams a camera and microphone

Overview

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative and empowering method which can effectively influence change. Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based method that has been evaluated in more than a thousand controlled clinical trials.

Aim

This introductory training aims to introduce the application of motivational interviewing skills and strategies to help people who present as ambivalent find and build their own motivation for change.

Overview

This course will discuss how services and practitioners can better prevent drug-related deaths. This course will have a particular focus on identifying the needs and risks of older people aged 35 years and over who use substances.

Aim

To enable workers to recognise risk factors, high-risk times and support people to reduce risk of drug-related death.