Full day - Day 1: Level 2 Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) qualification | |
• Alcohol awareness: its effect on health, individuals, society | |
• Measuring alcohol consumption and definitions of lower risk drinking | |
• How to identify hazardous and harmful drinking including the use of a validated alcohol screening tool such as AUDIT-C | |
• Understanding behaviour change and how to offer brief advice | |
Half day - Day 2: Introduction to alcohol licensing (supported by a local licensing officer) | |
• Alcohol licensing awareness – regulation, compliance and enforcement | |
• How AHCs can influence alcohol availability and get involved with licensing decisions using existing powers within the Licensing Act 2003 | |
• How AHCs can establish community action against alcohol harm and access a public licensing register of applications and licences granted where available | |
Half day – Day 2: ‘Train-the-Trainer’ session | |
• Essential information for training preparation and delivery | |
• Presentation skills | |
• Review and practice |