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Harm Reduction and Risk

This two-day course examines the concept of risk when working with clients. It has two main elements.
On the first day, it looks at the kinds of risks that a client’s patterns of drug use may present to them and the people around them. This forms a basis for introducing harm reduction information that can be offered to clients and how the client can be supported to change their behaviour.
On the second day, we will look at managing risk factors presented by the client. It will look at principles of safe working and risk assessing premises and activities that the worker carries out. By doing this in a transparent way the client will learn skills on how to manage their own risk and plan to keep themselves safe.

Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Describe the role of risk assessment.
• Identify risk factors relating to a service user’s substance use, either for the service user or someone associated with them.
• Provide a client with information and support to enable them to reduce risk taking behaviour
• Respond appropriately in an overdose situation
• Minimise risk represented by clients to workers.
• Clarify when it may be necessary to act without the service user’s consent in line with organisational policy and legal requirements
  

Length 2 days – 9:30 – 4:30 (or equivalent)

DANOS Units or other National Occupational Standards:

AB2 Support individuals who are substance users
AB5 Assess and act upon immediate risk of danger to substance users
AF1 Carry out screening and referral assessment

This course is designed and delivered in association with DrugScope

DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs and the national membership organisation for the drug field. Our aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related harms - to individuals, families and communities. We provide quality drug information, promote effective responses to drug taking, undertake research, advise on policy-making, encourage informed debate - particularly in the media - and speak for our member organisations working on the ground.


Please note
All our courses are commissioned for groups and organisations. If you have more than three people who would benefit from working together on this topic, use the link at the the bottom of the page to contact me, or click here to find out more about getting us to deliver a programme.

We regret that we do not have an open access programme