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.
Relationship Matters
Relationship Matters 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.
Relationship Matters Service User
Other services currently under development:
- Parenting in Prison
- Positive Parenting & Recovery
Online Group Programmes (access to UK-wide groups)
Recovering Families*
This service supports families and significant others (the families’ loved one does not have to be in treatment in order for the family to access this support) to achieve:
- Improved wellbeing (that is negatively impacted by their loved one’s addiction).
- Better ability to cope with the impact of addiction on themselves and their family.
- Improved self-awareness and making changes to have healthier relationships.
- Improved ability to maintain relationship boundaries.
- Increased peer support (meeting others with similar experiences).
- Better self-care e.g. better sleep routines, healthy eating, exercise, etc.
- Reduced isolation.
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
(13 x 1.5 hour sessions; Up to 12 participants)
*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.