Training
MerciaNet South runs courses in
Worcestershire, which are for professionals or volunteers
working in Worcestershire with young people and adults.
MerciaNet moved from County Hall at the end of January 2013 and
is now based at Worcestershire County Council, Learning and
Development Centre, Tolladine Road, Worcester WR4 9NB
Please contact Helen Bradley, MerciaNet South Administrator on
01905 23368 Ext 329 or send faxes to 01905 616008
Please E-mail to mercianetadmin@worcestershire.gov.uk or hbradley@worcestershire.gov.uk
Free Courses
The following courses are available free to professionals and
volunteers working in Worcestershire. People out of the county
are able to access these courses for a fee of £75 per person per
day:
| Title of course |
Length of course |
| Basic Drug Awareness |
One day course for those working with adults and young
people |
| Advanced Drug Awareness |
Two day courses for those working with adults and young
people |
| Alcohol Awareness |
One day course for all professionals |
| Drug Recognition |
One day course |
| Harm Reduction |
Two day course |
| Relapse Prevention |
One day course |
| Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) |
Half day course |
| Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice |
Half day course |
| Novel Psychoactive Substances |
One day course |
| Alcohol - Physical Risk Assessment |
One day course |
| Parented style - Personality Adaptations and Substance Use |
One day course |
| Domestic Abuse and Substance Use |
One day course |
| Prescribing in Substance Treatment |
One day course |
| Safeguarding and Substance Use: An Open Space Event |
Half day course |
| Developing Creative Interventions |
One day course |
| Group-work: Planning and Process |
Three day course |
| Recovery Workers and Social Workers Working Together |
One day course (for Worcestershire practitioners only) |
| Understanding and Managing the Relationship between Stress and
Substance Use |
One day course |
| Harnessing our Power: Understanding Anger and Contact |
One day course |
| Thicker than Water? Family Systems and Substance Use |
One day course |
| Relapse and Transactional Analysis |
One day course |
| Patterns and How to Break Them: Sustaining Recovery |
One day course |
| Brief Interventions – Young People |
One day course |
| Family Constellations and Social Support |
One day course |
| Dialogic Technique in Recovery Interventions |
One day course |
| Motivational Interviewing |
Two day course with a third day follow up |
Paid Courses
The following paid courses are available - see below for
costs:
| Title of course |
Length of course |
Fee |
| Cognitive Behaviour Therapy |
Two day course |
£150 per delegate |
| Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence |
Two day course |
£150 per delegate |
| Substance Misuse and Parenting |
One day course |
£75 per delegate |
| Alcohol and the Older Person |
One day course |
£75 per delegate |
| Cultural Competence and Substance use |
One day course |
£75 per delegate |
| Training Trainers |
Three day course |
£225 per delegate |
| Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the Role of
Substance Use |
One day course |
£75 per delegate |
| Self Harm/Self Injury Awareness Training |
One day course |
£75 per delegate |
If you would like to book any of the above courses please do so
using the forms below.
MerciaNet Specialist Training Calendar
Welcome to our newly devised specialist Training Calendar. It
has been developed to complement the existing MerciaNet Training
programme, but includes more intervention based courses, which have
been designed for practitioners contracted to work with drug and
alcohol dependence.
If you or one of your colleagues would like to attend one of the
courses please complete an a booking form (see above) and
return to email address mercianetadmin@worcestershire.gov.uk.
These courses are delivered free of charge to organisations in
Worcestershire. For delegates who wish to attend outside of
the Worcestershire area there will be a charge of £75.00 per
delegate per day. Please use a paid booking form in these
cases.
- Talk to Frank
Free
and confidential information and signposting.
- Alcoholics
Anonymous
Community programme to encourage
abstinence from alcohol.
- Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other.
- AdFam
Information, training and support for carers, support groups and
professionals.
- Alcohol Myths
Buster
Test your knowledge of alcohol-related
risks and find out the facts about drinking.
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The page is next due for review 16 September 2014.