11 Jul 2025
This Alcohol Awareness week (7 - 13 July), our Family Support and Specialist Programmes team has launched a new national survey which aims to improve understanding of how alcohol use impacts families.
Following a successful pilot survey in Medway, this new survey aims to reach a national audience with an interest in sharing their experiences of alcohol use, addiction and dependency in a family setting.
Complete the survey – closes 25 July
Professionals within the fields of family support, health agencies, social workers, and children and young people (CYP)
Service users and former clients of addiction-led family support services
Family members impacted or affected by someone else’s drinking and alcohol use
New parents, or parents with children under five years-old
Parents in blended or non-traditional family units
Professionals working with families – this includes social workers, therapists or practitioners
Family members (including grandparents, step-fathers/mothers and foster carers) – if you are a close family member with lived experience of supporting someone with an existing or history of alcohol use
Volunteer and charity workers working with children and young people.
Supporting children can help break the cycle – sadly children may also learn the same addictive and harmful behaviours of a parent with alcohol dependency
Improve our research – allowing us to reach more people to improve the validity (accuracy) of our study
Share your lived experience to help shape and improve Forward’s family support provision
If you have a view about the availability of information,guidance and education around alcohol harms please complete the survey…we want to here from you.
