Training and services

Training

ASH Scotland has produced four new eLearning training courses: 

• Understanding Tobacco:  this is a brief 30 minute course for anyone who is interested in finding out a little more about smoking and tobacco. It offers a brief look at tobacco, nicotine cravings, available support and nicotine replacement therapy. 
• Children, Carers and Second-Hand Smoke:  this is a condensed version of a national training course delivered across Scotland between 2014 and 2017.  It is suitable for anyone interested in finding out more about the effects of second-hand smoke on children.
• Healthy Body Healthy Mind: this is a course designed for universities and colleges that have signed up for the NUS and Scottish Student Sport Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Award (HBHM). It contains three modules which look at understanding tobacco, behaviour change, and working towards the HBHM award.
• IMPACT: this course course focuses on the links between tobacco use and mental health, and forms one element of ASH Scotland’s wider IMPACT project.  

To access the courses, please download the user guide and click the button below to enter our eLearning site:

We can also produce and deliver bespoke training courses for a range of professional groups.  Please contact bscheepers@ashscotland.org.uk to talk more about your training needs. 

NHS Health Scotland are a key partner of ASH Scotland who we have worked with on a range of projects.  They have recently developed a suite of eLearning modules and face to face training for specialist stop-smoking advisors, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who have a role in providing ongoing stop-smoking support to clients.

For further information on this tobacco training, please visit NHS Health Scotland’s Virtual Learning Environment or email catrionasutherland1@nhs.net

Other services

ASH Scotland provides a broad range of services to help public, private and third sector organisations address the harm tobacco causes to their clients, staff, service users and communities.

Our professional and highly skilled staff are able to deliver on a wide spectrum of commissioned work, for example:

• briefing papers on any subject related to tobacco and health, from one-page overviews to tailored briefing papers and evidence reviews to comprehensive policy analysis
• service audits and development of tobacco policies for services, from schools and youth groups through to mental health projects or family support
• delivery of tobacco awareness-raising sessions for staff, board members, clients or other groups
• surveys and focus groups of community interests such as potential service users or young people
• advice and support for partners to develop local tobacco plans.

We have published a new leaflet setting out the wide range of ways in which we can provide information, guidance and support to enable frontline organisations to engage with their clients on smoking. If you work in any service supporting people then we may have something tailored to help you. 

If you would like further information about any of these areas of work, please contact us on 0131 225 4725 or via enquiries@ashscotland.org.uk.