Schools and Colleges Training

Our training team offer free drug and alcohol awareness sessions in schools and colleges with support from our Young People’s service. Our target audiences are:

Primary – Year 5 and 6

Secondary – Year 7-11

Colleges – Age 16+

Our preventative courses aim to raise about awareness around substance use.

To book a session, please email cddars.schools@waythrough.org.uk.

We cross reference our sessions with PSHE guidelines, and each session
will differ dependent on year group. We offer a variety of workshops
which cover the following:

Nitrous Oxide awareness
Energy drink awareness
Risk taking behaviour
Peer pressure
Alcohol awareness
Cannabis awareness
Basic drug awareness

All of our awareness sessions are evidence based and compliant with NICE guidelines. Any
locality specific substance issues will be included in the session. We cross reference our workshops with public health education priorities.

Staff training is available on the following subjects:

Best Practice in Primary – Drug and Alcohol Education
Best Practice in Secondary – Drug and Alcohol Education
Young People’s Alcohol Awareness and Brief Intervention
Parental Substance Misuse
Basic Drug Awareness
Energy Drinks Awareness
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness