Lifeline Project
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Jackie Smith
Email
Project funding
£150,205
Funding round
The funding Lifeline has been granted through the Parenting Fund will enhance our BwD Families United Service to include parenting work and enable us to provide a whole family approach. The service currently targets the children of substance using parents and works with the parents to provide limited family support. Families are complex and to support the family unit it is essential to recognise and work with all individuals involved in that family unit as well as working with them together as a family.
We will employ 2 x Parent and Family Support Workers to enhance the work being delivered by the families United Service. One of the workers is to be seconded from
Inward House and will work across the treatment system to engage with parents accessing treatment and/or interventions within adult drug and alcohol services in BwD.
The workers will deliver 1:1 parenting support, parenting skills workshops and group work, family mediation, family group work based on the Strengthening Families Programme, and parents' groups, in addition to further activities for parents and families. The workers will each focus on specialisms in maternity/antenatal, and work with fathers.
In addition we will provide Counselling sessions to parents and children affected by parental substance misuse, and family counselling / therapy.
Beneficiaries of the project will be substance using parents, their children, and their family unit. Over the lifespan of the funding it is expected that approx 25 families will engage with this project, 35 parents will be provided with parenting support and 40 children / young people will be supported.