Aims

1. To clarify good practice in drug education.
2. To assess the approach to drugs and to identify its strengths and weaknesses.
3. To identify strategies for improving the effectiveness of your approach to drugs.
4. To identify the steps to take to build an effective drug policy.

Sample Timetable

09.00 Registration and coffee

09.15 Introduction to the day
09.30 Drug Education – the context
09.45 Key issues in drug education

11.00 Coffee

11.15 Good practice in drug education – how well are you doing?
12.15 Key development issues

12.30 Lunch

1.15 Step-by-step
1.30 Strategies to move forward – part 1

2.45 Coffee

3.00 Strategies to move forward – part 2
3.30 Support for development of policy
3.35 Action planning for policy and practice implementation
3.40 Evaluation

3.45 Close

This Healthwise Training Services programme is suited to anyone working with young people who wishes to create or update a drug policy and effectively implement it. It is suitable for teaching and support staff in schools, for community and youth leaders and for those working with looked after children or other children in a residential setting.

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