Upcoming Training and Events

Bystander Green Dot Skills Based Workshops

Want to attend a Bystander Green Dot Skills Based Workshop?

Future dates for the workshops are as follows:

Wednesday 19th March 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 - The Solaris Centre

Thursday 8th May 2025, 13:00 - 15:00 - Bickerstaffe House

Tuesday 3rd June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 - Bickerstaffe House

Tuesday 15th July 2025, 13:30 - 15:30 - Bickerstaffe House

Monday 29th September 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 - Bickerstaffe House

For information on how to book on to one of our Bystander Green Dot 2 hour skills-based workshops for 2025, please visit the Public Health Training Offer section of the Healthier Blackpool website.

Course Contents

The Green Dot campaign is an evidenced based primary prevention strategy that supports the Blackpool #ItStopsHere movement aimed at keeping our streets safe.

This initiative focuses on reducing the number of people in our community who experience power based personal violence, by taking a community responsibility approach.

The aim is that we all do our part to keep our community safe.

This workshop will provide you with the skills and confidence to be an active bystander.

• We will use a simple metaphor to show how domestic abuse and sexual violence including assault and harassment can be prevented and communities can change through small behaviours.

• A red dot represents an individual act of harm and too many of these red dots have added up to create a culture that allows unacceptable rates of domestic abuse and sexual violence including assault and harassment to happen.

• If red dots are the problem, green dots are the solution. A green dot is simply an action someone can take to stop a red dot from happening.

• Learn about the key components of the Green Dot Intervention and begin to consider what your individual and unique role will be in creating a positive and healthy community where far fewer people experience harm.

Register Your Interest

We have a number of free training events available, from introductory sessions to skills based workshops both in the community but also available to be delivered to businesses in the workplace itself.

These sessions will equip you with the skills and confidence to make a difference and be an active bystander

Complete the form below to register your interest in training.

#whatsyourgreendot

Green Dot Homepage

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.