Young People’s Substance Misuse Training

The NHS offer a range of free substance misuse training courses for those working with young people in Bristol. The courses aim to increase workers’ confidence and skills to respond appropriately to young people’s queries, refer them to appropriate sources of support and advice and to carry out effective substance misuse work. All the courses are free of charge and are facilitated by members of a multi-agency substance misuse trainers’ network.

To see a list of current courses around both substance misuse and sexual health for young people go to the 4YP Bristol website here

Substance Misuse Workforce Development

Opening Doors is committed to having highly quaified professionals working in the substance misuse field for young people in Bristol.

If you are interested in career development, training and workforce standards please visit the substance misuse workforce website here

Young People’s Needs Assessment and Treatment Plan

Every year the young people’s drug strategy team are required by the National Treatment Agency(NTA) to produce a Needs Assessment, which analyses the levels of needs of young people around substance misuse, and a Treatment Plan, which sets out what the drug strategy team’s priorities are for the forthcoming year based on the needs assessment.

You can download these 2 documents below-

Needs Assessment: Download

Treatment Plan: Download

The 2008-2011 National Drug Strategy

The 5 year national drug strategy “Drugs: Protecting Families and Communities” was produced last year. You can download this document here

Opening Doors Promotional Material

If you are a young people’s agency in Bristol and would like to order Opening Doors promotional material(e.g. posters, stickers etc) please use the Contact part of the website to order.