Professional Training for the Drugwatch Team at Cheshire Police HQ
- Without doubt the best training I’ve ever listened to (I’m 52 and had more training sessions than I care to remember)!
- Excellent information and content together with a spot-on presentation. Will be in contact with you to deliver both staff and student training/awareness sessions
- Excellent sessions, would really like to get you into Halton schools
- Should be on school curriculum as much as drugs/alcohol. Very good energetic talk, kept my interest throughout.
- This training is brilliant and everyone who works with young people should have it. I will recommend that Cheshire East use evolve for training not just in residential homes but also to Foster-carers.
- Excellent information and content together with a spot-on presentation. Will be in contact with you to deliver both staff and student training/awareness sessions.
Year 7
What did you like about today's session?
The presentation was really touching.
Learnt a lot about life.
Real stories that show the effects of former legal highs and VSA on people.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
The stories of drug taking.
Learning of a teenager’s death.
Is there anything else you would like to say?
It gave us facts and a choice.
Year 8
What did you like about today's session?
It got the whole of year 8 involved.
The explanation of the dangers of VSA and former legal highs.
Liked how speaker didn’t just say ‘Don’t take drugs’.
The aspect of truth - it was an eye-opener.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
The fact that these drugs are made available.
Knowing a 9 year old has experienced something he should never have seen.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
I feel safer knowing all this information.
Be careful, you don’t know what people are really like.
Year 9
What did you like about today's session?
The impact, now I know what VSA is and can do.
It taught us all so emotionally, it hit home so I grasped the real dangers better.
The beautiful stories that were shared with us.
It changed our lives.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
How devastatingly drugs can affect others.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
Thank you for your story, it has helped me a lot thanks for opening our eyes.
Year 10
What did you like about today's session?
It wasn’t forcing opinions/ideas on me.
Real stories from families, good speaker, got the message across.
Personal stories made it more realistic than statistics alone, which are sometimes hard to comprehend.
Didn’t know you could die from helium balloons!
A serious subject presented with humour – the stories brought the consequences into reality.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
How much it can hit home with the family stories.
Didn’t like how real the dangers are and how uneducated I was before the session.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
You understand the peer pressure we get as teenagers; this helped a lot of people.
Ally has been so inspirational in teaching young students.
Year 11
What did you like about today's session?
Personal aspects encouraged me to make the right choices.
Very factual and interesting, one of the best talks I’ve had.
A real eye-opener to a subject of which I had no understanding.
The honesty – stories and examples made me realise how serious it is.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
The stories about people abusing former legal highs.
A bit upsetting – but it was necessary.
The large number of people who don’t understand these drugs.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
Speaker was an inspiration to so many people.
I can inform anyone I know if they are tempted by curiosity.
Learnt more in this hour than in 4 months of PD.
The assembly was a real eye-opener and educational.
Year 12
What did you like about today's session?
Light-hearted but serious, can empathise with the understanding speaker.
Well delivered, extremely informative, won’t go near former legal highs.
Liked fact that you weren’t trying to control what we do, just want to help us.
There were references to real experiences so we could really realise the impact of former legal highs.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
It upset me because I can relate to family doing things like this, but I know it was necessary.
What didn’t you like about today’s session?
Inspired to get out of the stuff I’m involved in.
Text messages received post presentation
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Thank you for the talk, I never knew the danger of former legal highs and it was informative and interesting. Thank you!! X
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Hi Ally, thanks for the session, I found it really touching! It even made me cry! Thanks again xxxxx
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Hi just wanted to say thank you for the presentation today and good luck going forwards.
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Hey. We really enjoyed your presentation on former legal highs. And we liked listening to your stories. From the two blonde girls from group 5 (period 2) X ;)
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Just thought I’d say thank you for such a moving and informative session, I feel as if I have benefited from the knowledge and I am happy to know I am able to inform others and potentially save them. It’s such an amazing cause and something I'd love to get involved in. ( I was a boy in the audience )
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Hi, my name is Iman and I was truly touched by the talk you gave at my sixth form today about drug misuse. Myself and my friends all agreed that you are incredibly brave to share your stories and you are truly inspiring because you took tragic incidents and try to make something positive. I can definitely say I learnt a lot and this was the greatest PSHCE day I've ever had. Thanks so much X
