Course Details

Our 3-day Harm Reduction training is for all staff working within Salvation Army services and aims to equip our teams with a set of knowledge, skills, and strategies to engage effectively with people we support.  

We aim to increase understanding of how Harm Reduction can be applied to reduce the risk and harm to individuals, their loved ones, and their communities, and to understand the root cause of the behaviours. 

Over the three days we cover:  

• Connection and Engagement  
• Self-Harm and Suicide  
• Substance use and wider perspective of addiction.  

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, delegates will able to:

• Know harm reduction approaches and interventions.
• Understand engagement, trust and relationships.
• Manage change.
• Understand adverse Childhood Experiences and Attachment.
• Learn about families and communities.
• Understanding self-harm and suicide.
• Learn about myths and fact associated with self-harm and suicide   
• Identify risk.
• Learn the introduction into self-harm agreement.
• Learn support, interventions, and tools.
• Consider the impact of unconscious bias.
• Gain an understanding of drug and alcohol trends.
• Have awareness of overdose and blood borne virus.
• Understand stigma and language.
• Understand the digital decade and the impact around this.

Cost

Note: Costs for Learning and Development course programme are covered by departmental employee/officer levy payments. However, should an employee/officer book a place on a course but then subsequently fail to attend or complete the course, repayment of cost of the course will be charged to the department/appointment concerned (recoverable from the individual) (Policy CS04 Sect 6.5). Please note a separate process for funding approval exists for accredited programmes.