Delivering life skills and drug education across the UK.

Life Skills Education C.I.C. is a national community interest company based in Nottinghamshire whose work is well embedded in the East Midlands, London and within Ministry of Defence and military bases in the UK and abroad.

Our aim is to develop and deliver a range of educational resources to help children and young people acquire and use the knowledge, understanding and skills that equip them to live safe, healthy and productive lives in a world where drugs are common place.

Life Skills Education C.I.C. are proud to announce that it’s free resource on Legal and Over the Counter Drugs and Internet Safety is available to download from its website.

The course, which looks at ways to explore the law in relation to the Internet and legal drugs applies the Dare Decision Making Model in a variety of situations to help young people practice effective decision making.  It looks at ways to identify safe ways of using social networking sites and helps young people recognise that legal drugs can be harmful.

The resource is available free by download from here or by requesting a DVD through the head office on 0300 111 3273.  It is designed to be printed in house on A4 paper and we provide both colour and black and white copies as part of the resource.

Thanks go to the Big Lottery Fund for funding this resource.

DOES LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION WORK?

Some people believe that if we help young people to understand the consequences of drugs, alcohol and tobacco, it will increase the likelihood of their future abuse of those substances.

Others believe that such education will have little or no effect on the future involvement of young people in substance abuse.

The feedback that we receive from parents, teachers and the young people themselves tells a very different story. Understanding how abusive use of such substances can tragically affect our lives and futures and what positive steps we can take to remain safe and healthy is as important to us as is learning the Highway Code before using our roads, or learning to understand and respect wild animals before working in a zoo.