We deliver bespoke research-informed, evidence-based experienced practitioner training packages to social care, police, health, education, private and public sectors.
We provide basic awareness and intermediary safeguarding training in line with the National Safeguarding, Training and Development Standards.
Alongside mandatory/standardised training for your organisation, we can tailor training to your identified internal training needs. We also offer refresher training to support workers’ confidence and continued professional development.
Our research and practice wisdom informs other training and developmental opportunities for front-facing organisations, for example Uncomfortable Conversations & Situations, Decision-Making and Multi-Agency Collaborations.
We seek to collaborate with others with particular expertise to provide an all-rounded learning experience. We are all about encouraging and advancing good practice development and opportunities for front-facing staff.
Examples of more training we can offer
Ketamine Awareness & Lived Experience: Ketamine prevalence in the UK, side effects, and a first-hand account of someone of an ex ketamine user.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the origins, development and growth of Ketamine
- Understand those most likely / vulnerable to use Ketamine
- Understand the effects and risks related of using Ketamine
- Understand the short and long term possible consequences of taking Ketamine
- Gain a greater and deeper understanding around Ketamine use, the risk and impact first-hand from an ex-Ketamine user.
- Ketamine use continues to grow, especially among young people.
Target audience: Professionals, Parents, Students, and Young People.
Groups: Maximum 20
Duration: 1.5-2 hrs
Neurodiversity Awareness, Impact Considerations & Lived Experience: Meaning of ‘Neurodiversity’, prevalence rates, how having such conditions can influence and disproportionately negatively impact young people through their childhood and into adulthood. A first-hand account of one person’s journey through the education system, the difficulties he experienced, including becoming addicted to drugs, and going through the criminal justice system.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand what is meant by the term neurodiversity
- Understand some neurodiversity conditions and prevalence rates
- Understand how having a diagnosed (or undiagnosed) neurodivergent condition can present challenges and difficulties within such systems as: Education, Health and Social Care, Criminal Justice System.
- Understand the need to reframe conditions
- Gain a greater and deeper understanding from someone with lived experience as a young person, and how this led to drug use, criminality and the prison system.
Target audience: Professionals, Parents, Students, and Young People.
Groups: Maximum 20
Duration: 2.5-3 hrs
Cocaine Awareness & Lived Experience: We explore global and UK use, routes and prevalence, risks and side effects and a first-hand account from an ex user.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the origins, development and growth of Cocaine
- Understand the Cocaine trafficking routes and methods used by criminal gangs
- Understand the effects and risks related of using Cocaine
- Understand those most likely / vulnerable to use Cocaine
- Understand the short and long term possible consequences of taking Cocaine
- Gain a greater and deeper understanding around Cocaine use, the risk and impact first-hand from an ex-Cocaine user.
Target audience: Professionals, Parents, Students, and Young People.
Groups: Maximum 20
Duration: 1.5-2 hrs