Training Opportunities - LDCVS - Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions

Mental health awareness

An introductory half-day course designed to increase adult mental health awareness and give an understanding of how to look after wellbeing and challenge stigma. When you complete your course you will get a certificate of attendance and a manual to keep and refer to whenever you need.

Participants will learn to:

Define mental health and understand the mental health continuum.
Identify factors impacting wellbeing and explore stress management.
Recognise signs of distress and common mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychosis self‑harm and suicide awareness) The Times+14MHFA Portal+14adfirstaidtraining.co.uk+14.
Develop a stigma‑challenging mindset.
Use the Take 10 Together toolkit to start supportive conversations.
Understand recovery principles, helping strategies, and how to signpost to professional resources

The cost of the course is £5.
Cancellation for a refund is possible until August 8th.

Emergency First Aid at Work
(level 3)

The Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work course is the most popular workplace first aid course in the UK. After completing this course, you will be able to prove that you have completed first aid training that meets Health and Safety (First Aid) 1981 Regulations to be a first aider in a low-risk work environment.

The course covers the following topics:

• Roles and responsibilities of a first aider
• Assessing an incident
• Managing an unresponsive casualty
• CPR
• Recovery Position
• Use of AED (Defibrillator)
• Choking
• Seizures
• Shock
• Wounds and bleeding
• Minor injuries
• Cuts, grazes, and bruises
• Minor burns and scalds

The course is delivered by Safehaven Training.

The cost of the course is £49.50, including booking fee to trybooking.com.
Cancellation for a refund is possible until September 3rd.

Suicide prevention (Lancaster)

Suicide is one of the most common and preventable deaths, yet many people do not know how to support someone who is at risk of suicide. These suicide prevention courses aim to give learners the knowledge and skills needed to prevent deaths from suicide, in workplaces, their personal lives or community settings.

You will learn:

how to identify the signs someone is at risk of suicide
how to talk about suicide in a safe and confident way
how to develop a safety plan with someone who is having suicidal thoughts
where to signpost someone at risk of suicide for further support

Learners who can show the required awareness of Suicide First Aid will receive a certificate and can apply to be Orange Button holders.

This is a funded course, with just a registration fee (£5 LDCVS members / £10 non-members) to cover venue hire and refreshments.

Designated Safeguarding Lead training

This course will enable you to gain an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Officer role and develop competence and confidence in the role.

The course will enable you to respond to the challenges of safeguarding children, families and adults in 2025.

Identify the Designated Safeguarding Officer’s roles and responsibilities
Identify legislation, statutory guidance, policies and procedures which enable the DSO to manage safeguarding and allegations
Identify the key elements of the Pan-Lancashire procedural frameworks for safeguarding children and families and understand how to apply these in practice
Identify effective responses to emerging concerns, including extra familial harm
Identify the escalation process to help manage cases appropriately within local authority thresholds
Define key aspects of developing a safeguarding culture in education (allegations / safer recruitment)
The effective assessment management of risks

Facilitator James Upton has worked in safeguarding since 1996 and now owns his own training and consultancy business (Motivational Interviewing and Safeguarding Training Ltd). James has worked as a Children’s Social Worker, Adults and Childrens Substance Misuse Worker, University Lecturer and Youth Worker across roles in Health and Social Care. James is also an Associate trainer for the NSPCC and Alcohol Change UK and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). His approach to training is Trauma informed.

The cost of the session is £40 for LDCVS members and £65 for non-members.

PREVENT:
Safeguarding against radicalisation

Prevent is part of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy and aims to educate and safeguard those who may be vulnerable to radicalisation. It is part of the statutory duty that surrounds safeguarding. Prevent provides support through training and guidance so that more and more people can identify the signs of radicalisation and support for terrorist groups, and therefore implement early intervention strategies.

As an organisation or person that works within our local community, you are ideally placed to support and educate your relevant audiences. Prevent is simply another strand within safeguarding and is designed to keep us all safe.

This session will cover:
• the meaning of terrorism, extremism, radicalisation and ideology
• different extremist groups: Islamist, extreme right-wing, extreme left-wing
• spotting signs of radicalisation
• people who may be vulnerable to radicalisation
• a toolkit to identify radicalisation – behaviours and vulnerabilities

The session is free, but you need to book your place because of limited space.

Advocacy: Giving people a voice

In this online session, Jonathan Rose from Advocacy charity wearepeoplefirst will cover all essential areas of Advocacy, from what it is and how it works, to practical guidance on how to do it most effectively.

By the end of the session, you will have a good understanding of:

the key features, process and impact of advocacy
the relevant legislation and standards
the different groups who require advocacy and the challenges they face
the roles and responsibilities of an advocate
techniques for effective communication
rights, entitlements and key procedures

The cost of the session is £10 for LDCVS members and £15 for non-members.

Suicide prevention (Morecambe)