Training Exchange

A record number of new legal highs were identified last year. Government scientific advisers told BBC Newsbeat that more than 41 new substances were detected across Europe in 2011, many bought on the internet from China.

Should people have two days a week completely clear of alcohol? This is one recommendation from a Commons Science and Technology Committee Report calling for a review of all government alcohol guidelines in the UK.

In an open letter, 35 liver specialists from the North East have called for people to join a campaign to prevent alcohol advertising aimed at young people. Click on the picture to see their online campaign video.

DAAFA co-designer and training instructor Nick Coulter is pictured below with our first pilot course in 2012 of RBL trainees.

A campaign featuring urban music scene members is reaching out to young men from London considering suicide. Billboard adverts by charity Campaign Against Living Miserably are being put up across the city.

A new Sheffield website is encouraging teenagers to support friends with mental health problems – and it could stop one 16-year-old girl’s experience being repeated: www.epicfriends.co.uk

KSL’s training instructor Beckie Davies is pictured below with our first cohort of Youth MHFA trainees commissioned by Peterborough YMCA for its staff and local partners.

Poppy Jaman (Director MHFA England), Russell Sauntry (Head of College Chaucer Technology School), Yasmin Ishaq (Team Manager KMPT EIP Service) and Nick Coulter (Director KSL), speak in Canterbury with schools, colleges and partners, to launch the youth programme and kitemarking pilot in Kent.

Nick Coulter (Director of KSL) meets with Service Manager Dannielle Charge and her colleagues from the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYMHS) Townsville, QSL, Australia to review their Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) Improvement Work.

KSL has delivered 2 Youth MHFA courses in London for the NCB (National Children’s Bureau) to help them achieve their objective of supporting voluntary organisations in the children’s services sector nationally. The picture of our first cohort is below.

Stress tops the list of long-term absence causes and hits manual and non-manual staff alike, according to CIPD research (see resources) One workplace KSL has already supported through training is the armed forces. Click on the picture below to find out more about the Army’s Mental Health Stigma Campaign:

This is the first group from KSL’s series of 8 MHFA training courses in London and regionally for the Royal British Legion’s welfare staff. The picture includes our trainer Nick Coulter. This followed on from KSL’s delivery of adult MHFA training for the Football Foundation and The Grenadier Guards.