Turning Point
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£45,500
Funding round
Turning Point is a social care charity with services in 200 locations across the UK supporting 100,000 people each year. We work with individuals and their communities in the areas of drug and alcohol misuse, mental health and learning disabilities. We have a particular expertise in working with people who have complex needs and are facing multiple social challenges. We were established in 1964.
Our Parenting Fund project will provide support, information and advice to parents whose children are using drugs and alcohol and to addicted parents themselves. A Parent Support Worker will be employed to work with parents across Leeds, initiate and develop contacts with local agencies and organisations, and set up referral pathways. The project will provide support to parents in the form of:
- group work - Groups of parents will come together to discuss their worries and share their experiences. Issues covered by the groups will include drug/alcohol education and awareness, patterns of drug use and anger management. The group will also focus on how parents can develop coping strategies to help them deal with their children's drug use and learn skills that will have an impact on their child's behaviour.
- individual support - The Parent Support Worker will take on a 'key worker' role, providing emotional and practical support for those parents who need additional help to work through the issues they are facing, such as the child's behaviour, lack of accurate information, fear for their children, guilt, stigma and isolation.
- volunteer support - A group of parents whose children are using drugs will be trained to provide informal support to other parents who are experiencing similar difficulties.
- activities - Turning Point will also offer parents a range of activities where they will be able to spend time with their peers and, more importantly, have leisure time away from the family situation. A regular timetable of activities will include complementary therapies, relaxation techniques and visits from other local organisations that provide services that may be of use to parents.
Turning Point will be working with Yorkshire Band of Hope in delivering this project in Leeds.