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Join this practical, hands-on Naloxone training designed to give you the skills and confidence to act in a life saving situation. 🗓 Wednesday 9 September ⏰ 10:00 – 12:00 📍 Location TBC Building on our previous session exploring the impact of substance misuse, this training focuses on recognising and responding to opioid overdoses—with real-world guidance and hands-on practice. During the session, you will learn: What opioids are and how they affect the body Why overdoses happen and who is most at risk How to recognise the signs of an overdose and respond effectively What Naloxone is and how it works How to safely administer Naloxone (with demonstration and practice) Emerging risks in the drug landscape, including Nitazenes ✅ Free Naloxone kits will be available for those who wish to carry them. 👥 Who should attend? Anyone supporting children, young people, or vulnerable adults – including youth workers, teachers, social workers, healthcare professionals, volunteers, and parents/carers. No prior medical knowledge needed. Delivered by Change Grow Live, a national charity specialising in drug and alcohol support, this session offers practical, frontline insight you can apply immediately. 👉 Free to attend – secure your place and gain vital, life-saving skills.

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Inclusive Volunteering Learning Community On the back of the recent Report and Recommendations for Inclusive Volunteering: Volunteering For Health Summary and the subsequent conversations at the webinar, we're inviting those with professional or lived experience of Health Inequalities and Volunteering to an Inclusive Volunteering Learning Community so we can better develop the inclusive volunteering practice that volunteers with health inequalities tell us they need. The group will be peer led & meet for an hour every couple of months to help co-produce the learning or support we need. Both lived and professional experience will be central to us moving forward. Our aim is to address the Key Recommendations from the Report in the link above; identifying what we need support with and where we might have resources (i.e. toolkits, templates, guides etc) that can be shared with each other - generating some practical solutions for inclusive volunteering. We might look at training needs, clear descriptors/inclusive comms, support resources, social bonding, co-produced volunteering or anything else you find relevant. A person-centred approach will mean different types of materials/resources for different people and their support needs. Please contact me to join us or to ask further questions: Cata.Parrish@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk