Bromley Changes Young People's Drug and Alcohol Services
Our training menu
If you're a professional that works with young people and children in Bromley, we're here to help. Here's our training menu delivered fresh to you and your team!
- Light bites - addressing the basics of what you need to know working with a child or young person who is using drugs and alcohol
- The mains - hungry for more learning? These workshops are a more in-depth look at the issues of substance use
- A little something extra - additional sessions that will compliment people who have already attended our other courses
If you'd like to learn more and book any of these sessions, please contact Esme, our Service Team Leader: [email protected]
Light bites
What’s Going On?
A one-off session to support professionals to identify hidden harm and respond to the situation that hidden harm creates for a young person and their family.
A one-off session to support professionals to identify hidden harm and respond to the situation that hidden harm creates for a young person and their family. There will also be some reflection on the current situation - living with hidden harm during a pandemic.
Hidden harm is = a child or YP living with the impact of someone substance use
The mains
What’s the Deal?
A look at child drug dealing, identity, mindset, experience, new technologies, the business model, the modern marketplace it is happening and the issues of child criminal exploitation.
The course takes one full day, but we can do it over two half days if you'd like.
What’s the problem, I only had one?
An opportunity to look at the differences in the impact on children and young people of drugs and alcohol within the home.
An opportunity to look at the differences in the impact on children and young people of drugs and alcohol within the home and its links between parental conflict and domestic violence.
What if it is not mum or dad?
Addressing the impact of adults' drug and alcohol use in the lives of our young people.
Addressing the impact of adults' drug and alcohol use in the lives of our young people. We will explore how even if it isn’t happening at home children can be negatively by someone else’s use.
What’s Drugs and Alcohol Got To do With It
A course we would recommend to any practitioner who will encounter a young person who is drug experienced or drug curious.
We will cover how the illicit and legal drugs marketplace changing, new forms of substance use, popular drugs used by YP and what are the novel, new drug trends YP are enticed by, and what are their associated impacts.
A contextual look at adolescent substance using behaviour, role of peers, the teenage brain, developmental behaviours.
Recreational and dependent users and the unique risk-taking profile associated with these users.
A useful exploration of good practise within a drugs prevention agenda, what works? how can we use the principles and ethos of harm reduction to educate about drugs, prevent their use from escalating and reduce drugs related harm?
A little something extra
What’s sex got to do with it?
How does drug and alcohol use play into sexual health, behavior, and pleasure?
A lesson in critical thinking for our young people: how does your drug and alcohol use play into sexual health, behavior, and pleasure?
Is it all a Taboo?
A session to support professionals to feel confident and well informed when speaking with families about Hidden Harm.
A session to support professionals to feel confident and well informed when speaking with families about Hidden Harm.