Training for professionals
Drugs and alcohol training to help professionals and practitioners deliver effective family support
Recognising and responding to the needs of families
Working with families affected by drugs and alcohol involves the consideration of many complex factors. Increasing numbers of professionals - in social services, children’s centres and drug treatment providers, for example - are finding their responsibility to recognise the needs of families is increasing, but without the proper level of guidance.
Adfam training is available either on a commission basis - the perfect way of training a group of staff members - or through individual booking.
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Courses
Adfam offers the following courses for professionals:
- Families and treatment: effective working for drug and alcohol practitioners
- Achieving outcomes, measuring the difference: the Carers Support Outcome Profile (CSOP)
- Understanding family dynamics
- The impact of drugs and alcohol on families: for family support providers
- Engaging the family in mainstream services
- Working with families and the criminal justice system
- Substance-related bereavement: how families are affected
- Young people and substance misuse: a family approach to treatment
- Good practice training for professionals on engaging and supporting grandparent carers
Click the course titles below for PDF handouts on learning objectives, costs and further information.
Families and treatment: effective working for drug and alcohol practitioners
In recognition of the growing interest in family involvement in treatment, this one day course aims to ensure that practitioners are ready to work effectively with families and that they can deliver treatment interventions in line with local protocols.
Next available dates: Wednesday 14th March 2012 (London).
Achieving Outcomes, Measuring the Difference: The Carers Support Outcome Profile (CSOP)
This training day aims to equip practitioners to utilise the CSOP measurement tool as an integrated part of their work with families.
Next available dates: Wednesday 14th March 2012 (Birmingham).
The aim of this training is to enable and equip practitioners to better understand the dynamics that happen in the lives of the families they come into contact with as a result of drug and alcohol use.
Next available dates: Friday 23rd March 2012 (Birmingham), Thursday 29th March (London).
The impact of drugs and alcohol on families: for family support providers
Offers family support providers an introduction to the issues facing families affected by drug and alcohol use, considering how they might assess and work with them. The course explores some of the myths surrounding substance use, particularly parental drug and alcohol use.
Next available dates: Thursday 1st March 2012 (Manchester).
Engaging the family in mainstream services
Offers insight into the nature of drug and alcohol use and explores the interventions that practitioners in non-specialist services can make to safely screen, support and refer families affected by drug and alcohol use.
Next available dates: please check again soon for more dates or contact the training department to enquire about commissioning a course.
Working with families and the criminal justice system
A training package charting the relationship between a drug user and their family through arrest, imprisonment, treatment and release, exploring the perspectives of a prisoner and their mother, partner and child.
Next available dates: Monday 12th March 2012 (London).
Substance-related bereavement: how families are affected
This course aims to improve the support offered to families by enabling those working with individuals bereaved through substance use to understand the bereavement process and effective ways of coping with it.
Next available dates: Friday 9th March 2012 (Manchester).
Young people and substance misuse: a family approach to treatment
A one day course for those working within young people's treatment services to develop skills for working inclusively with parents and family members.
Next available dates: Wednesday 21st March 2012 (London)
Good practice training for professionals on engaging and supporting grandparent carers
This interactive one day course is aimed at professionals (e.g. in social care, treatment and carers' organisations) and is designed to develop workers' ability to engage with and support grandparents bringing up the children of substance users.
Next available dates: No courses are currently scheduled. Please email our training coordinator for further information on how to commission this course.
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