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SUMMARY:SCLWN: Gaming and Gambling Harm Prevention Training
DESCRIPTION:***This event is aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a primary care setting in Scotland. Managers/Programme Leads for Community Link Workers are also welcome to attend.*** \nFollowing a successful training event in June\, The Scottish Community Link Worker Network is working again with award-winning charity Ygam to offer CLWs City and Guilds Gaming and Gambling Harm Prevention Training in November.  The timing of this training is particularly pertinent with the recent release of the Public Health Scotland Healthcare Needs Assessment of Gambling Harm in Scotland. This document also recommends the new NICE Guidelines on this topic\, which say the following: \n“Health and social care professionals should consider asking people about gambling (even if they have no obvious risk factors for gambling-related harm) when asking them about smoking\, alcohol consumption or use of other substances (for example\, as part of a holistic assessment or health check\, when registering for a service such as with a GP or in contacts with social services).” \nIn addition\, 83% of 8-25-year-olds game at least three times a week (with 58% gaming every single day)\, and there was a 3-fold increase in referrals for support for gaming disorder between 2019 and 2020. \nYgam’s workshop will help CLWs to open up conversations on these topics (which can be tricky to do due to the shame and stigma associated with them)\, as well as providing guidance on how to support and signpost a patient who is experiencing gaming or gambling harm. \nBook your place here.
URL:https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/sclwn-gaming-and-gambling-harm-prevention-training-2/
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SUMMARY:SCLWN: Knowledge Exchange
DESCRIPTION:***Please note that this event is for Primary Care Community Link Workers and Programme Leads.***  \nOur next SCLWN Knowledge Exchange will feature presentations from researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow who are part of the Living with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) research team\,  Beat\, the UK’s National Eating Disorder Charity\, and Social Security Scotland. \nFind out more and book your place. \nFor more information\, please contact SCLWN Project Manager Roisin Hurst. \n 
URL:https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/sclwn-knowledge-exchange/
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SUMMARY:SCLWN: Peer Support Event for Community Link Worker Programme Leads
DESCRIPTION:** This event is for Leads and Managers of Primary Care Community Link Worker Programmes in Scotland. ** \nIn the latest of our peer support events for CLW Programme Leads\, we will hear from Gemma Woollett\, HSCP Integration Officer and Lead CLW from the awarding-winning Community Link Worker team in Clackmannanshire. Gemma will talk about their programme and the innovative approaches they are using when it comes to data\, including cost benefit analyses\, to showcase the impact of what they do. After some Q&A and discussion\, we will have the opportunity to split into smaller breakout groups to explore the challenges and successes around evaluating impact. \nTo book your place\, please click here. \nFor more information about SCLWN events\, please contact SCLWN Project Manager Roisin Hurst
URL:https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/sclwn-peer-support-event-for-community-link-worker-programme-leads/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United Kingdom
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