Broadreach House
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£184,108
Funding round
Broadreach House is a charity established in 1982 that provides residential and non residential treatment and support services for drug and alcohol dependent adults.
Relationships with children can be a strong influence in stopping the use of drink and drugs. Addressing and facing up to the damage, which may have been caused by their substance misuse, is a painful and stressful process, which often evokes feelings of guilt and shame in the parent. Broadreach House believes that offering skilled and structured support during this time will significantly improve the chances of a long-term positive outcome for many of our clients and their families.
Our project will develop the work we are already doing with drug and alcohol abusing parents to produce a practice model that can be shared with other agencies. One of the funded posts will work with parents during the course of their residential treatment and the other will offer aftercare support.
Structured parenting programmes designed around the needs of drug/alcohol dependent parents will be piloted among Broadreach House clients. Parents will receive additional support and counselling on their own and with their children.
Broadreach House's clients come from all over Britain, but some will settle in Plymouth after treatment and can continue to use the Parenting Programme. Others will receive the necessary support to return home and reunite with their children.
The programmes will be monitored and evaluated and the results made public. A manual based on the course will be made available and we hope to develop accredited training modules for practitioners working with substance misusing parents.
A mobile crèche will be available at each of our four Parenting Programme sites.