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Table 1 Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) Train-the Trainer Event

From: ‘A priori’ external contextual factors and relationships with process indicators: a mixed methods study of the pre-implementation phase of ‘Communities in Charge of Alcohol’

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