We currently support eight trained voluntary Drug Educators in Yorkshire and the Humber region who are available to work in schools and with youth and parents’ groups to provide interactive drug and alcohol education.
Contact Deborah Devine at d.devine@hopeuk.org if you would like a Drug Educator to visit your group.
Two voluntary Drug Educators, trained with Hope UK’s Open College Network-accredited course, are available to provide drug awareness sessions for children, young people, parents and youth and church workers.
If you would like a drug awareness speaker for your group, please contact Deborah Devine at d.devine@hopeuk.org
Our goal is to recruit more Drug Educators with a part-time Project Worker who will be able to to liaise with other voluntary and statutory groups, 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. First year salary and support costs are approximately £4,000.
Hope UK is developing its drug awareness and training work in Cornwall while continuing to support ten trained Drug Educators elsewhere in the South West. Clare Vincent, already a trained voluntary Hope UK Drug Educator, began work in July 2007 with the remit of not only carrying out drug and alcohol awareness sessions, but recruiting, helping to train, and supporting new Voluntary Drug Educators in the county.
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Our vision is to have a team of Drug Educators in Cornwall to provide the mix of skills and experience required to provide community-based drug education, especially for churches and other voluntary groups in evenings and weekends – when statutory services cannot provide workers. We are hoping to have some who will be able to visit schools and other groups meeting during ‘working hours’. Eventually, we would like similar teams in the other counties as well.
We would like to thank the following organisations for their support:
Seedbed Cornwall – for funding Clare’s salary.
The Echo Centre in Liskeard for use of premises for training weekends.
Clare was a Voluntary Educator before she became a part-time Project Worker and says, “I became an Educator because I wanted to do something positive to address the problems of alcohol and drug misuse in my community.” She enjoyed meeting other Educators on the training weekends she attended and says, “The care and on-going support from the Training Co-ordinators is excellent.” She also uses the training she received from Hope UK in her community in the context of the Drug Proof Your Kids® Parents’ course.
Clare loves being able to work with adults and children through Hope UK. The interactive drug awareness sessions raise awareness about alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs and enable young people to make drug free choices as well as helping those with responsibility for them do their own drug prevention work.
Married, with two children, Clare, a former Secondary school teacher, leads a busy life and enjoys cooking, crafts, walking and boating in the summer. Her family is involved in the local Torch Trust for the Blind Fellowship Group and she and her husband are House Communitygroup leaders.
Cornwall Drug and Alcohol Action Team (information about statutory and other treatment and counselling services etc)
Volunteer recruitment begun in Buckinghamshire last year has resulted in a team of five who are now ready to take drug and alcohol awareness sessions in the country. Contact Deborah Devine at d.devine@hopeuk.org if you would like to book a speaker.
Ann Galbraith is the Project Worker for Southampton, and Poole and Bournemouth. She has recruited four voluntary Drug Educators from Southampton, Poole and Bournemouth who are currently undergoing Hope UK’s voluntary Drug Educator Training course. As a trained Drug Educator herself, Ann is available to undertake drug awareness sessions with children’s, young people’s and parents’ groups. Contact her at a.galbraith@hopeuk.org if you would like a speaker or are interested in becoming a Drug Educator.
There are currently 18 trained Drug Educators in other parts of the South East (not including London) available to provide drug awareness sessions in schools and with children’s, youth and parents’ groups. Training can also be provided for youth workers and family workers. If you would like to book a speaker, please e-mail d.devine@hopeuk.org
Hope UK has five voluntary Drug Educators in the North East available to take drug and alcohol awareness sessions. Please contact Deborah Devine at d.devine@hopeuk.org if you wish to book a speaker.
