Drug and alcohol workforce: learning directory
Learning opportunities for those working with people affected by substance use.
Delivering Family-Inclusive Care
Bereaved Through Substance Use
This bookable session will help you explore the sensitive subject of bereavement through substance use and to understand the unique and difficult impact that a loss can have on friends and family.
Provider: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Cost: £600 for 4 hours up to 15 participants
Find out more: Bereaved Through Substance Use
Children Harmed by Alcohol Toolkit
This 3-hour interactive workshop is ideal for anyone working with children and families and looking to use the C.H.A.T. resource pack (which can be purchased separately).
The resource pack has been piloted and evaluated in Scotland with the session focusing on the key themes of CHAT and how they relate to supporting children, young people and families affected by alcohol harm or in recovery. Ideal for practitioners from social work, treatment services and family support services.
Provider: Alcohol Focus Scotland
Cost: Please contact provider
Find out more: CHAT resource / Alcohol Focus Scotland
Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Aware: Bespoke Training
CSE aware offer tailored training relevant to the needs of your organisation or team. Sessions can be online or face to face and includes:
- Introduction to CSE
- Making the links: CSE and violence against women
- Connections between CSE and women’s needs (housing, mental health, sexual health, etc)
- Facilitating disclosures: CSE and routine enquiry
- Support needs: working with women in CSE
- Trauma-informed practice and women in CSE
- Money and power: the 'sex industry' and women's safety
- Blurred lines: the role of CSE in creating a conducive culture
Provider: CSE Aware
Cost: Please contact provider
Find out more: Training - CSE AWARE
CRAFT Training
CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) is an evidence-based, non-judgemental programme for practitioners to use with family members and carers affected by someone else’s alcohol or drug use. CRAFT helps family members to communicate positively with their loved one, reduce their feelings of stress, improve feelings of self-worth and encourage their loved one to enter treatment.
Provider: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Cost: £275 per person for 2 day online course
Find out more: CRAFT Training
Everyone Has a Story
The aim of the course is to support practitioners to listen and respond effectively and appropriately to children affected by parental substance use.
Provider Scottish Drugs Forum
Cost: Free
Find out more: Everyone Has a Story - Scottish Drugs Forum
Facilitating a Support Group
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs’ (SFAD) ‘Facilitating a Support Group’ training helps explore the skills and knowledge practitioners need to effectively lead a support group. It will touch on some of the core things involved in running a group, including how to structure and manage a group.
Provider: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Cost: £600 for 4 hours up to 15 participants
Find out more: Facilitating a Support Group
Family Inclusive Practice
This course offers an in-depth look at all aspects of families’ support needs, what we are aiming for within Scotland, and how practitioners can adapt innovative approaches to best include families.
Provider: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Cost: £600 for 4 hours up to 15 participants
Find out more: Family Inclusive Practice
Introduction to Supporting Families
Introduction to Supporting Families course focuses on learning the unique needs and experiences of family members and understand how empathy and listening skills are important to family support.
Provider: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Cost: £300 for 2 hours, up to 15 participants
Find out more: Introduction to Supporting Families
Multiple Risk Course
The aim of this course is to enable front line workers including teachers, youth workers, college and university staff to respond to children and young people engaging or at risk of engaging in multiple risk behaviours.
Provider Scottish Drugs Forum
Cost: contact provider
Find out more: Multiple Risk - Scottish Drugs Forum
Supporting Children, Families and Parents (MAT 4, 6, 9 and 10)
Provides an overview, as well as signposting to resources that outline the importance of the Whole Family Approach.
Provider: NHS Education for Scotland
Cost: Free
Find out more: Supporting Children, Families and Parents (MAT 4, 6, 9 and 10)
Woman to Woman: Advice From Experience
Exchange Supplies have started the project with two films made by Hide and Seek Media, based on discussions between Claire of Simon Community in Scotland and Jane from Exchange Supplies. In these video resources Jane shares her experience of injecting, and talks about needle selection and the long term health problems she has experienced as a result of injecting into her femoral vein.
Provider: Exchange Supplies
Cost: Free
Find out more: Exchange Training
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