An essential course for anyone delivering drugs education, including approaches that can have a preventative effect and how to create a safe learning environment. Ideally delivered as a 1-hour session during after-school meetings, although can be delivered for smaller groups of staff at school staff's convenience.
Primary
Secondary
Delivered either in-house in your school or online. Please email kelly.obrien@mft.nhs.uk for more information or to book a session.
Kelly has gained over twenty-one years of experience working in both public health and education, including thirteen years with the Healthy Schools’ team. This has afforded Kelly with extensive experience of working with schools on all aspects of PSHE, delivering training, and developing schemes of work. Her specialist subject for Healthy Schools is drugs and alcohol education, and her professional interests include positive psychology, transition, and inclusion in education.
Kelly is passionate about supporting school communities to deliver Health Education through an approach that engages the whole school community and promotes a positive ethos and environment. She is committed to lifelong learning and has achieved a First-class BA (Hons) in Education; a Masters in Education in the field of Psychology of Education, and has undertaken postgraduate research about teachers' perspectives on PSHE and health education. In her spare time, Kelly enjoys cooking, gardening, films, and walking with her labradoodle, Bella.
