This is a 2-day course running on 13th & 14th January 2025 via Microsoft Teams. You must be able to attend on both days. Aim This course will support practitioners in adult and children’s services to respond to children affected by parental substance use. Learning Outcomes  By the end of the training, participants will be […]
Parental Substance use and its impact on children and young people is a short training course that aims to: increase knowledge and awareness of the possible impact of substance use on a child and young person. explore the role all services play in supporting children young people and their families impacted by substance use. explore […]
This is a 2-day course running on 13th & 14th January 2025 via Microsoft Teams. You must be able to attend on both days. Aim This course will support practitioners in adult and children’s services to respond to children affected by parental substance use. Learning Outcomes  By the end of the training, participants will be […]
The Improvement Service, in partnership with the Scottish Government, COSLA, NHS Education for Scotland and Resilience Learning Partnership, is hosting an online webinar to: • Provide an introduction to the Roadmap: how and why it was developed, the tools/ guidance it includes, and an overview of how it can support your team/ service/organisation with embedding […]
This session will be held online using MS Teams. A link will be emailed prior to the course. Please join from 13.00 for a prompt 13.15 start. An introduction to bacterial infection in people who use drugs. The training will give an overview of bacterial infection and various outbreaks seen in Scotland. It gives participants […]
Are you a parent or carer of someone who has been prenatally exposed to alcohol? Do you want to know more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)? Written and delivered by the FASD Hub Team, this 3 hour course covers topics such as: How alcohol affects the developing fetus FASD, its prevalence and how it […]
Background and focus: Data sharing in addiction treatment is a critical issue in Scotland, where challenges in sharing information between the 3rd sector, health, social care and law enforcement contribute to gaps in patient care, delays in emergency response and, tragically, preventable harm or death. These concerns have been raised previously by the Drug Deaths […]
Aim  This introductory course will support trauma-informed practice when working with people who are affected by trauma and who use substances.  Learning Outcomes  By the end of the training, participants will be able to:  Define the concept of psychological trauma.  Describe how substance use is used as an adaptive coping response to trauma and its […]