VSA Professional and Peer Mentor Training

Gas and solvent use: Professional and Peer Mentor Training

Re-Solv delivers training on gas and solvent use to health, social care, housing, education and other services and support groups across the UK. We have over 35 years’ experience working in this field, which involves the misuse of gases such as butane and nitrous oxide, and solvents such as petrol.

Training is free of charge in England and Scotland, thanks to our funders: Corra Foundation, Lloyds Bank Foundation and The Tudor Trust. There are three types of training available:

Group training for up to 20

If you would like to book group training for up to 20 members of your team, Nicola Jones can deliver this via live webinar or face-to-face at your offices, depending on distance. Please phone 01785 817885 or email info@re-solv.org for more info or to make a booking.

Recorded webinar training

If you’d like to complete training in your own time but would prefer it to be trainer-led, our free recorded training programme takes approximately 3 hours to complete. A workbook is provided and if you’d like to email this to us on completion, we will email you your certificate and a copy of our Gas and solvent use Handbook. For the training link, password, and resource materials please email info@re-solv.org.

Substance Misuse Services: Assessing for gas & solvent use

Please can you help us by routinely including gas & solvent use in any assessment. It is often a secondary or tertiary substance that clients are using and they may not think to mention it alongside illicit drug use.

On TOPS forms, please could you specify the product being misused. The revised NDTMS categories for gases & solvents are: gas (butane/propane), aerosols, nitrous oxide, poppers, petrol, glue, acetone, other solvents.

Professional resources

  • A guide to assessing for solvent and volatile substance abuse is also available here.
  • An A4 poster, intended for in-service notice boards, with information about solvent abuse for adult users can be printed off here.
  • For services in Scotland, this e-learning resource was developed in association with NHS Scotland.

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