Full day programme - Award-winning Blue Light training programme

• Introductions / objectives
• Ground rules

• Who they are and the Blue Light approach
• Case study work drawing on participant experience – this material will also be used later in the session
• Tutor presentation of examples of the impact of the client group drawn from serious incident reviews
• The rationale for targeting them
• Group work, large group discussion, tutor input

Session 3 – Why is the client change/treatment resistant?

• Understanding barriers to change
• Using the barriers to change tool
• Discussion and tutor input

Coffee

Session 4 – What works with change resistant drinkers?

• This session looks at seven approaches which are evidenced to work with this client group. These include: outreach, nutrition, motivational approaches, and making small changes
• Group work and feedback
• Tutor input, Q&A

• This session introduces the 12 questions tool and also informs later harm reduction work
• Body exercise to identify / enhance participant’s knowledge of the impact of alcohol
• Introduce the 12 questions tool to identify key symptoms of the main alcohol-related conditions
• Group work and feedback
• Tutor input, Q&A

• How can non-alcohol specialist workers encourage clients to enter services and what can alcohol services do to help
• Group work and feedback
• Tutor input, Q&A

• Introducing the alcohol-specific risk assessment tool and the range of harm reduction approaches
• Group work, feedback from groups, tutor input

• Group discussion on use of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Anti-social Behaviour powers exercise to contain difficult to engage substance misusers.

• Return to earlier case study clients
• Group work to develop a new approach
• Feedback and discussion with tutor input