Youth Workers can be provided with customised training ranging from 3 hours to 2-day long courses. This includes an Open College Network Accredited course entitled Young People, Drugs and the Role of the Youth Worker.

Furthermore, ‘family sessions’ offer opportunities where parents can be given drug awareness sessions alongside young people.

Youth workers can benefit from the activity downloads, alcohol and drug information and alcohol-free drinks info. Christian youth leaders can also find information about Hope UK’s services to the church by clicking here.

If you need to seek help for a young person, visit the Find Help section.

Finally, you can always contact Hope UK’s headquarters for advice.

The Church section of our website offers a one-stop resource that includes activities for Sundays, mid-week meetings, children, young people and parents. In addition, there is plenty of information and advice about what to do when you need to help somebody.

Churches are all-age organisations and Hope UK Educators offer a wide range of presentations and training courses for different groups, including the opportunity to invite an Educator for a service or prayer meeting. As a Christian organisation, Hope UK has a special interest in resourcing the UK Church.

Churches can support Hope UK with prayer or gifts. They can identify individuals who might benefit from training as a Voluntary Drug Educator.

Churches could also host a Drug Proof Your Kids® Parents’ course or send someone on the Life for the World training course which equips individuals to help those people who are hurting in the community.

Prayer support is important for Hope UK’s work and prayer notes are available.

Hope UK offers a variety of options for those doing voluntary or paid children’s work – all designed to help them include alcohol and drug prevention work within their programme. Drug Educators can provide fun sessions and interactive presentations for children and their leaders. Our preference is always to enable children’s leaders to do their own drug awareness work throughout the year. Single sessions with children can be fitted into an overall programme for the benefit of all concerned.

Hope UK can train children’s workers with customised sessions ranging from 3 hours to day-long courses. There is also a 2-day course for Family Workers.

Children’s workers can also benefit from the activity downloads, alcohol and drug information and alcohol-free drinks info. Christian children’s leaders will also find the content of the Church section of the website of interest.

Finally, you can always contact Hope UK’s headquarters for advice.

Parents are often unsure about what to do to prevent harm related to drinking, smoking or illegal drug use. Hope UK’s resources will help dispel myths and provide strategies which parents can use as their children grow up.

Parents could suggest to schools, churches or other community groups that they invite a Hope UK Educator to run a parents’ awareness session.

The Hope UK’s Parents Action Plan is available free in single copies and other information about drugs can be found in the resources section. If help is required, the useful links and general advice in the Find Help section should be of assistance.

The Drug Proof Your Kids® Course which is run by Care for the Family, offers a 12 hour (broken into six sessions) course which focuses on helping parents to be aware of drug issues by learning from the experience of other parents as to what works best. The course is very practical and will be of assistance to any parent.

Church workers will also find the Church section of Hope UK’s website helpful.

Hope UK Educators visit schools to provide alcohol and drug awareness sessions with the flexibility to ensure that they fit within a school’s drugs syllabus and policy.

Alcohol-free drinks info and the Activity Downloads will also be of interest. Information about alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs is also available.

Hope UK’s training can be customised to suit the needs of teachers and others working in the Education sector.