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Drug And Alcohol First Aid (DAAFA) is a one-day/four-module training course that has been created and developed by KSL and TONIC and piloted with Royal British Legion.

This is for anybody with a responsibility for others, and probably with some mental health training or substance misuse service experience, and who initially wants to learn how best to act, and then make and implement action plans, using relevant case examples.

help-others

This course is recommended for people who have regular contact with others during their work and have a basic knowledge about mental health and well being. KSL would be pleased to put you in the hands of our most experienced mental health trainers for an interactive and instructive course.

It is also the only short knowledge and skills-based substance misuse course adapted for services in England and Wales for adults and young people.

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DAAFA four programme sessions:

Introduction
Drugs and alcohol
Substance misuse
Tools and techniques

DAAFA five learning outcomes:

- To gain a broad awareness of the impact of drugs and alcohol on young people and adults
- To safely and appropriately react and respond to people who may be misusing substances
- To develop a broader understanding of the causes, signs, symptoms, risks and supports
- To promote the recovery from problems through making a most effective initial engagement
- To know how to use an action plan, self-help strategies and a screening and referal tool

DAAFA eight step action plan:

R eact – assess risk of self-harm or suicide
E ngage – be positive, respectful and hopeful
C ommunicate – and listen non‐judgementally
O ffer – practical information and reassurance
V erify – check and record what you have heard
E ncourage – self-help and stay safer strategies
R einforce – positives and your reasons for any referal
Y ou – consider your health and safety as a first aider

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How much is it?

A one-day DAAFA course for 6-16 people can be commissioned from us for just £995 + VAT. It is suitable for all your non-specialist-trained staff, members and volunteers, responsible for young people and adults.

Our aim is to support emergency, preventative and early intervention strategies through skilling trainees in how to respond to problems initially, how to screen these needs and when and how to refer people to self help or specialist services. Now you can commission the course for delivery in your own venues from March 2012, for staff, members, volunteers and partners.

DAAFA to recovery

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DUST² – A refreshed Drug Use Screening Tool

The course incorporates training and accreditation in supporting local use of the Drug Use Screening Tool (DUST²) for both young people and adults, designed by Tonic Consultants to update and improve their original.

Click here to download the
DUST² Screening Tool and Referral Form

Warning: Although the DUST² form is freely available for download, its local use is only licensed and recommended for use in practice where this is closely supported by somebody (working in the same team) who has completed DUST² training, e.g. as evidenced by a DAAFA certificate.

partners

We can do more than provide courses to organisations; we partner with them to identify mental health related training needs and support the development of their workforce learning and welfare, for example with RBL:

“KSL provided the Royal British Legion with mental health training courses for staff in our different regions throughout 2011. My dealings with them have always been on a positive note. We identified that there was a gap in our portfolio of training solutions regarding the support our staff were able to provide to our beneficiary community in respect of mental health. Having identified the issue, we contacted KSL as a recognised Mental Health First Aid training partner and discussed our client/beneficiary group alongside our staff’s own learning and welfare needs. Discussions were productive and progressed initially to the provision by KSL of eight MHFA courses and then to four pilot drug and alcohol first aid (DAAFA) courses.

One of the tutor-trainers who has delivered for us and is a director within KSL, Nick Coulter, has been heavily involved in the development of MHFA in the UK and is a registered Mental Health nurse practitioner with great facilitation skills and professional expertise. Our trainees have so far without exception rated the courses delivered as relevant, interesting and beneficial! All our interactions with Kevin and other trainers and the admin support team within KSL have always been highly professional, courteous and pleasant. They have invoiced us in a timely manner and to the quoted amounts, they have been flexible and responsive to our requests to tailor content when appropriate, and have been exemplary in their work to date.

Our commitments to workforce learning and outcomes in mental health are being recognised this month by MHFA England with a special award. We have recently commissioned advisory support to help us quality assure our mental health and substance misuse policies, practices and plans, for us to extend our own support and training capacity sustainably in 2012. I would have no hesitation in recommending KSL as a good partner or provider organisation; Kevin and Nick appear to have a lot of personal expertise and practical experience of working with adults and young people from the discussions we have had. I am sure they would be as responsive to any other organisation’s requirements as they have been to ours.”

Martin Lewis
Head of Learning, Organisational Development & Culture Change
The Royal British Legion, January 2012