Introducing our Addiction First Aid Training
We’re proud to announce another first for the UK – our course on Addiction First Aid. This course follows the success of our Mental Health First Aid training and takes a similar format. We’ve partnered with addiction specialist Shahroo Izadi to create this course, empowering your employees to confidently offer support to colleagues experiencing addiction.
It’s estimated that alcohol abuse alone costs the UK economy £27bn a year and drug use an additional £15bn.
Aside from the painful reality of living with an addiction for employees, substance abuse has a real impact on businesses:
- 70% of substance abusers are in full time employment.
- 1 in 10 small business owners report an employee showing up for work under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
- 40% of all industrial accidents are related to substance misuse.
- Employers lose £7.3 billion to lost productivity, absenteeism and accidents caused by alcohol every year, with 17 million working days lost to alcohol misuse.
Addiction First Aid training
Our Addiction First Aid training gives your employees the knowledge and skills to spot signs of a colleague experiencing addiction-related challenges, be confident in starting an effective conversation and signposting them to appropriate support.
Work with renowned expert Shahroo Izadi
Shahroo Izadi is Elevate’s expert on addiction. She’s a Behavioural Change Specialist, and an experienced speaker, coach, workshop facilitator and bestselling author. She uses her experience working across the addiction treatment field, in clinical, community and prison settings. During this time, Shahroo developed a knowledge of how to elicit self-led change and motivation, both personally and professionally.
Among her various roles, Shahroo is a relapse management coach and group facilitator at Amy’s Place. Run by the Amy Winehouse Foundation, this is a recovery house for women in recovery from substance misuse. She is part of the faculty at The School of Life, where she delivers personal development workshops. She has worked alongside Westminster MID, training Wellbeing Coaches who use their own experience of mental health recovery to support others in their communities. In 2019 she travelled to Samos, Greece, to train refugee camp NGO staff on coping strategies and simple tools to avoid burnout.
Shahroo is one of Red Magazine’s ‘Smart Women’ of 2018, on Marie Claire’s 2019 verified Power List, and is the House of Lords’ 2019 Thought Leader of the Year. She has published two books: The Last Diet and The Kindness Method. She uses her successful framework to focus on changing habits and developing compassionate self-talk.
Find out more about Shahroo here: https://www.shahrooizadi.co.uk/
Work with us
To work with Shahroo and Elevate on your organisation’s Addiction First Aid training, get in touch with our team.
