Family Support & Specialist Programmes
We offer:
- Licensed Programmes: training and support for your organisation to deliver evidence-based programmes on a licence basis (annual fee + training costs).
- Online Group Programmes: access for your clients and service users to structured group programmes, joining peers across the country for shared experience and mutual support.
- Staff Training: access for your teams to a range of modules and courses delivered in person or online as ‘set’ programmes or on a bespoke ‘pick and mix’ basis.
Our particular areas of expertise:
- Substance misuse, addiction, and mental health.
- Supporting families affected by these issues as well as offending.
Licensed programmes (training & support for local delivery)
All our programmes are based on evidence and the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Transactional Analysis, and Systemic Family Therapy.
M-PACT (Moving Parents and Children Together)
This whole family programme brings together parents and children affected by addiction* and is used in 35 local authority areas. M-PACT aims to:
- Increase coping skills.
- Improve family functioning.
- Identify resources to provide ongoing practical help.
- Build resilience and increase protective factors.
M-PACT helped me understand how my actions affects people around me.
M-PACT Service User
*M-PACT for gambling is also available.
Relationships Matter
Relationships Matter supports individual service users who are also receiving treatment for substance misuse or related support to:
- Identify areas they would like to change in their relationships with family members (and others).
- Build and maintain positive relations to increase their support network.
I enjoyed getting to understand myself and others and our feeling and working together.
Relationships Matter Service User
Other services currently under development:
- Parenting in Prison
- Positive Parenting & Recovery
Online Group Programmes (access to UK-wide groups)
Recovering Families UK (RFUK)
If you are aged 18 years and over, this free online programme supports adult family members and significant others to:
- Enhanced understanding of addiction – helping to find new ways of coping and living with a loved-ones addiction
- Improved self-care and wellbeing – advice around better sleep routines, healthy eating and exercise
- Identifying coping strategies – maintaining healthier boundaries (e.g. enabling behaviours)
- Connecting with others – meeting other people that share similar circumstances of addiction in the family
I found everything helpful and useful. This service has certainly helped me view things differently, with a whole different slant on handling difficult and sensitive situations.
Recovering Families Service User
Participant’s will receive six one-to-one sessions and 14 group sessions – all delivered online.
*Also available as licensed programme (training & support delivered locally in person).
Recovery Online (delivered by Forward’s Recovery Directorate)
A 12-week structured abstinence-based group programme that people can access flexibly at a time that suits them. Groups comprise up to 12 people at any time to ensure the right balance of peer support, groups dynamic, and individual expression. The programme comprises:
- Step assignments – working through the first three of the twelve steps.
- Reading groups, lectures, & workshops – all based around motivational enhancement.
- Family sessions – exploring topics such as family identity, relationships, and co-dependency.
- Education, training, & employment sessions – including an introduction to Forward’s employment services.
- Weekly 1-2-1 sessions.
I felt so isolated and desperate…it enabled me to reconnect with life and meet like-minded people. Now I am living in recovery.
Recovery Online Service User
Staff training
Substance Misuse Awareness for Housing Workers
We can offer bespoke courses based on a range of modules and topics.
Do get in touch if you would like more information.