Six voluntary Drug Educators are available to provide drug awareness sessions for children, young people, parents and youth and church workers. One of these volunteers also acts as the Chairman of Hope UK’s board of Trustees.
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A team of 13 voluntary Drug Educators have completed their training in Newham and are now providing drug education in this deprived London borough.
A team of thirteen voluntary Drug Educators from Watford in Hertfordshire completed their training last year and have begun to take their first, observed, drug awareness sessions. The team includes a GP, Dr Kate Carter, who said:
Hope UK in NorthamptonshireCamille Cummings, Hope UK’s part-time Project Worker in Northamptonshire, does many sessions in schools and has received funding from the Northamptonshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team to provide Hope UK’s two-day accredited courses for youth workers and family workers to local groups as well as drug awareness sessions for parents. For the latest news, click here. Our vision is to have at least ten Drug Educators in Northamptonshire as this number will provide the mix of skills and experience required to provide community-based drug education, especially for voluntary groups at 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. We would like to thank Kettering Temperance Society – for funding this work.Camille Cummings – profile
In her teenage years and early twenties she had a period of about 6 years where she was regularly using drugs. It began with solvent abuse, smoking and getting drunk whilst she was still in school. After a car accident just before the millennium, she started searching for answers about what life was all about and found them when she became a Christian at the end of 2000. She is pleased that she is now able to provide drug education to others so that they can consider drug-free lifestyles. County LinksNorthamptonshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team (information about statutory and other treatment and counselling services etc) Solve it (volatile substance abuse prevention and support organisation in Northants) Hope UK Links: Drug awareness – Talks Training sessions – Training Hope UK in the East MidlandsHope UK has ten voluntary Drug Educators in the East Midlands who are available to take drug awareness sessions in schools, and with children’s, youth and parents’ groups. |
Camille started working for Hope UK in Jan 2008 for the Northamptonshire area. Her previous experience has always focused around recruitment, training, education and business management, which has helped her deliver drug awareness sessions and recruit/support volunteers.
