Community Training
Corporate Information Sessions
Palmerston is able to provide Drug and Alcohol Information Sessions for
your staff. The Information Sessions will demystify the issues around
drugs and will cover categories of drugs, who uses drugs, why people
use drugs, the health risks, the impact of work, families and community
and what services are available to support people who are affected by
drug and alcohol use.
To find out more information, please contact the Family and Community Development Officer on (08) 9430 5966.
Schools
The Transformers Program is targeted at primary school children and aims to:
- Provide support, drug education and harm minimisation strategies;
- Raise awareness in participants of the effects of excessive drug and alcohol use on individuals and families;
- Teach self-protective behaviour and resilience;
- Help to identify coping strategies both positive and negative already being employed and help to formulate more effective strategies where needed;
- Raise self-confidence and self-esteem through participation and interaction in the group setting;
- Demonstrate and teaching effective assertive communication and encourage participants to use this form of communication in place of passive or aggressive behaviour;
- Introduce effective emotional management primarily for anger and anxiety;
- Raise awareness that individual needs are important and how to get those needs met in the context of the family;
- Introduce the notion of boundaries and the separation of responsibilities into what the participant can control and what they cannot; and
- Offer individual counselling to address specific issues identified in participants.
This program is available through the South Metro Community Drug Service in Mandurah.
