Adult literacy awareness training for staff working with individuals in addiction and addiction recovery
Literacy training for addiction recovery staff
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The project partners were:
Waterford and South Tipperary Community Youth Service
Health Service Executive Substance Misuse Service
About this project
This project provided literacy awareness training to staff in the Waterford and South Tipperary Community Youth Service, the Health Service Executive Substance Misuse Service, and Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB).
It aimed to train staff in:
literacy,
health literacy,
literacy and addiction, and
how to use plain language.
Educators developed an adult literacy awareness programme with the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) and Tipperary’s regional literacy coordinator. Training took place online and in-person at the Tipperary ETB training centre in Carrick-on-Suir.
Staff could attend one of two training groups for one day a week over four weeks in late 2025:
group one in September, and
group two in November.
More about this project
The programme trained staff working directly and indirectly with people in addiction or recovering from addiction. These included community workers, youth project workers, family support workers, health service officers, probation service workers and ETB staff.
Training sessions covered the following topics:
literacy awareness,
literacy integration and health literacy,
plain english training, and
plain english editing.