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WINTER 2016
SQA STAR AWARDS
Innovative partnership success
Both roles continue to improve relations
between the police, the NHS and students.
They have delivered a range of workshops
to students covering topics such as hate
crime, alcohol and drug awareness, domestic
abuse, personal safety and mental health and
substance use.
With new initiatives, positive feedback from
staff and students, and great collaborative
work this innovative partnership continues to
be a great success and students benefit from
enhanced learning and wellbeing. This, in turn,
benefits the wider community.
It was with great delight that Cara Durnie
and PC Lisa Thomson picked up their Highly
Commended award at the SQA Star Awards.
Both have been in their roles as Addictions
Liaison Officer and Campus Liaison Officer
respectively for over a year now, and have
firmly established themselves within the
College as important figures of support to our
students.
This partnership with Police Scotland and NHS
Ayrshire and Arran is the first of its kind in
Scotland.
Cara and Lisa proactively engage with
students to impact on their own and the
wider community’s health and wellbeing.
This supports the College’s strategic goals
as well as the objectives of Police Scotland,
NHS Ayrshire and Arran, and Ayrshire’s three
community planning partnerships.
With a number of key projects in the pipeline,
the partnership is continuing to develop
innovative ways of supporting students at
Ayrshire College.
“This partnership with Police
Scotland and NHS Ayrshire and
Arran is the first of its kind in
Scotland.”