Hope UK

Twenty voluntary Drug Educators are available to provide drug awareness sessions for children, young people, parents and youth and church workers. 

In 2009 they carried out 96 drug awareness sessions, including support for Care for the Family’s Drug Proof Your Kids course, the Mothers’ Union, primary and secondary schools, youth worker training, YMCA and church groups.

Our goal is to support these (and more) Educators with a part-time Regional Representative who will be able to to liaise with client groups, funders, etc, as well as meeting requests from daytime groups like schools during ‘office hours’.  Recruiting new Educators, and providing training for accredited courses and delivering awareness sessions at times when Educators are not available, calls for 7 hours of staff time per week in the first year and our plan is to build up the hours to a total of 21 per week gradually over four years as Educator numbers increase (to a total of at least 30).  First year salary and support costs are approximately £4,000.