The Trainer

The principle trainer is Peter Anderson, Peter has worked for approching 20 years in the Addictions and Homelessness fields, in a wide variety of settings:

Homeless Day Centres

Community Day Services for Mental Health

Rough Sleepers Street Work Teams

Residential Drug Detox.

Homeless Addictons Services

Street Drinking Outreach

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Peter has significant mangerial experience in these fields and in addition was a key player in setting up services for homeless drug users in Edinburgh, helped develop the first, rough sleeping focussed, backpacking needle exchange in the city, and carried out research in a variety of areas, notably with Street Drinkers in Muirhouse.

Peter has sat on  the Action Team For Drugs and Alcohol in Edinburgh, is a past chair of the Lothian Coalition of Drugs Agencies and has sat on the boards of both the Edinburgh Homelink Partnership and the Scottish Drugs Forum.

Peter is enhaced disclosed with Disclosure Scotland.