About us
I am not young enough to know everything.
- ascribed to Oscar Wilde
drugsandstuff from John Mosley specialise in providing training and awareness programmes. Covering young people, drugs, alcohol, HIV, hepatitis, infection control, LGBT and sexual health issues. Our clients include drug and alcohol action teams (DAATs), social services, LEAs & schools, PCTs and Connexions Partnerships.
For details of recent contracts that John Mosley has be awarded click here.
Contact details
John Mosley
Based in West London, working across the UK.
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Relevant qualifications
Master of Science in Education with Merit in Health Education and Health Promotion
@ School of Education, Kings College, University of London (p/t October 1997 - 2000)
Title of dissertation: Drugs and alcohol: The needs of parents and the value of working with parents. An exploratory study to establish work in a local context
The Use and Problem Use of Drugs and Alcohol
Certificate in the Recognition and Management of Substance Abuse
HIV/AIDS Advanced Course
@ Wolfson Institute of Health Sciences, Thames Valley University (1996 - 1997)
Educational Studies
@ Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, Department of Education Studies(1988 - 1989, 1991)
Further Education and Adult Teachers Certificate course
@ North Tyneside College of Further Education (p/t 1987 - 1988)
Recent contracts
Clients have included:
| Two national childcare and child protection agencies: | Training: Working with Lesbian and Gay young people. Training: parental drug use and child protection and others. |
| An NHS Trust: | CD and website development for staff training. |
| Two Sure Start projects: | Strategy development; smoking cessation and drug awareness training. |
| An HIV service provider: | Management committee development & team building. |
| A sub-regional substance use/mental health agency: | Drug training at basic and intermediate levels. |
| Several drug action teams: | Providing drug training to a wide range of professionals working in NHS, social services, housing, prisons, youth offending teams, police services (over 800 staff in one area. Specialist training for drug professionals covering overdose prevention. Young People service providers Tier 3 assessment training. |
| Two connexions partnerships: | Tier one (universal) and tier two (more specialist) drug and alcohol training. |
| A Social services department: | HIV training. Infection control training for approximately 750 staff . |
| An Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC): | Drug and alcohol and child protection training. Parental drug use and limiting its impact on children. |
| Two universities: | Drugs and young people training for Beginning Teachers. HIV and workplace issues for students on HIV certificate course. |
Previous employment contracts include:
- Youth & Community development work for Genesis Regeneration; London Borough of Ealing; London Borough of Hounslow; South Tyneside Council and Sunderland City Council. All of these roles focused on issue based youth work, with two developing sexual health and drug & alcohol interventions with young people.
- I have worked in the mental health field, as a researcher writing a directory of mental health services and provision. I have worked in outreach with CLASH (working with commercial sex workers focusing on sexual health and substance use, in central London) and Turning Point (organising new ways of reaching and engaging with problematic drug users in West London).
- I have worked for a specialist health promotion service, developing NHS and voluntary sector HIV prevention services across three London boroughs.
- Previous to this, I worked as a Campaigns Co-ordinator for a new NHS health promotion service. I co-ordinated national public health campaigns (e.g. National No Smoking Day, Drinkwise) across two district health authorities; provided training to NHS and voluntary sector staff on health promotion methodology.
- I have worked for Barnardos in the North East, working with an European funded project for socially excluded young people aged 16-25 years.
- Prior to this I was a Lecturer in Adult Education (North Tyneside Council), teaching photography with a number of community based organisations.
- Throughout the above I have worked with diverse community groups, training on a range of health issues.