Community Addiction Studies Course

Duration: 100 Hours (held over a 20 week period)

Organisation of Programme:

Part-time (3 hours each week)
Plus one residential Personal Development week-end Fri evening to Sun lunchtime

Aim of Programme:
The purpose of the Community Addiction Studies Course is to enable people to:

1. Learn about drugs and their effects
2. Develop an understanding of addiction
3. Examine their own attitudes
4. Become more effective in their personal responses
5. Develop the skills and knowledge to become more effective in responding to drug misuse in their own communities

Student/Trainee Profile: Community members who feel they would like to be more effective when it comes to drug/alcohol issues. There are no education requirements to be part of this course, only a willingness to learn.

Number of Students/Trainees: 20-25 per course

Application Procedure: Application forms are available from:
Greater Blanchardstown Response to Drugs (GBRD: address at bottom of page).

Also downloadable here

Application forms will need to be returned to GBRD by post.
All applicants are required to take part in an interview.

Selection Procedure: Application Committee selects participants based on written applications and interviews.

Certification: Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) (NCVA) Level 5 – 1 Module.

Cost: €200.00

Venue & Dates:

Closing Date For Application Forms

Friday 16th September 2011

Course Structure:

• Introduction
• Drug use, misuse and abuse
• Drugs as participants encounter them, signs/symptoms
• Drugs used in participant’s community and their effects
• Attitudes
• Pharmaceutical information on drugs
• The process of addiction
• Families and the effects of addiction on families
• Interventions at a one-to-one level
• Intervention strategies
• Intervention and listening skills, role play
• Personal development weekend
• Referral and treatment programmes
• Agency visits
• Personal stories, drug user, parent, NA speaker, Nar-Anon
• Community responses to problem drug use
• Research presentations