SMART Recovery Ireland

🎉 Our Winter Newsletter is here! ❄️ Excited to share updates, support, and tips for the season ahead! 🌟 Stay connected and supported this winter. 🎄 #WinterNewsletter #FestiveSeason #OnlineSupport #SmartRecovery #StayConnected

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We are both proud and thrilled with the line up for our SAFER Webinar series. Tomorrow at 10am, Nicola Corrigan from HSE Social Inclusion and Stephanie Keane from ICAAN and the North East Regional Drug and Alcohol Task Force (home to 2 of our SAFER Sites) will focus on the F of SAFER - Facilitate access to screening, brief interventions, and treatment. You can still register https://lnkd.in/ei4V93Qi     While on Thursday, I'll be joined by none other that leading global alcohol policy expert, Prof Emeritus Thomas Babor where we focus on E - Enforce bans or comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertising, sponsorship & promotion. Link to register is here: https://lnkd.in/e695arQY

So its that time of year again. This year, Alcohol Forum Ireland is raising awareness of what actually works in reducing and preventing alcohol harm. Oddly, the least popular measures in reducing and preventing alcohol harm are often the most popular. People want to get quick wins, to focus on individual behaviour, to simply tell young people to just say no. This week there are three opportunities to join us and learn about what actually works in reducing and preventing alcohol and other drug harm to families and to communities. Join us!!

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Only a short time left to participate in this study! If you grew up with a father in prison, or know of anyone who did, I encourage you to reach out. Recruitment will be finishing soon. This is a unique opportunity to share your story and contribute to our growing understanding of the rippling effects of imprisonment. Irish Penal Reform Trust

This December join us for an exciting line up of presenters in our SAFER Winter Webinar Series. With Rekve, Dag (WHO), Prof Emeritus Tom Babor, Velma Burns (RSA), Colin Angus and many more, this is a huge learning opportunity. While this series of webinars will be of interest to all those who are part of our Building SAFER Communities steering groups across Ireland, it will also be of interest to anyone who is interested in learning about alcohol harm and how we can work together to reduce and prevent it.  Four people in Ireland die every day as a result of alcohol, reducing that burden is everybody's business.  Sign up today using the links below.  S Monday, December 2nd at 10.30 - Strengthen restrictions on alcohol availability  https://lnkd.in/eMhi_VKu A Thursday 5th Dec., 10am -Advance and enforce drink driving countermeasures https://lnkd.in/eszfCf3a F Tuesday, 10th Dec, 10am- Facilitate access to screening, brief interventions, and treatment  https://lnkd.in/ei4V93Qi E Thursday, 12th Dec- Enforce bans or comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertising, sponsorship & promotion  https://lnkd.in/etUZm7qP R Tuesday, 17th December, 10am Raise prices on alcohol through excise taxes and pricing policies  https://lnkd.in/ehSxN5mM  

Ireland's first ever national conference on Alcohol Related Brain Injury in Sligo yesterday. A huge thank you to HSE Social Inclusion for funding the event and working with us on it. Some take aways - 1) We have a brilliant team in Alcohol Forum Ireland! Thank you guys, you are all legends. 2) There is growing support across the health services on the Island of Ireland and acknowledgement that we need to do better in responding to alcohol related brain injury and supporting the right to recovery. Fantastic to have the new Regional Executive Officer for HSE West and North West, Tony Canavan attend yesterday and address the delegates. 3) There is hope - despite the fact that up to 75,000 people here may be at risk of developing an alcohol related brain injury, with the right support and rehabilitation, 25% of people can and do make a full recovery There is so much learning to process, so many new links made to follow up on and a few new priorities for action, but for today - time to be thankful!

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📢 Calling all SMART Recovery members! Join us for the 'Enhancing Impact' online workshop on 13 November. By participating, you'll gain valuable insights into developing SMART Recovery's outcomes measurement framework and contribute to shaping effective programs to better support our community. Register your free attendance here: https://loom.ly/cr_pcYs #SMARTRecoveryAustralia #OutcomesFramework #RecoveryImpact