Addiction isn’t a choice, people get stuck, and they are often kept there by fear. Help is out there – it’s about accepting it and making changes for yourself. Nicole, More Than My Past
At The Forward Trust, we provide treatment, recovery and rehabilitation services for individuals. However, it is also vitally important to recognise the significant impact that someone else’s addiction and imprisonment has on their family members and others involved in their life.
Family members and affected others should be supported in their own right. They should be provided with dedicated support services which help them to manage and cope with the personal impact of someone else’s addiction and imprisonment. Our family support therefore provides services for individuals, their wider families and the children, young people and adults they are connected to.
Our family support work aims to strengthen relationships and interpersonal connections, so every person feels safe, supported and valued by the people they surround themselves with. That's why we take a ‘Whole Family Approach’ to recovery and rehabilitation, supporting clients and family members through the delivery of specialist one-to-one and group support.
At Forward, we provide a range of support for families to help people navigate the emotional, relational and practical challenges that come with a loved one’s recovery. Our work includes:
Recovering Families - a free, 20-session online support group programme for adult family members affected by someone else’s addiction.
If you are a family member or loved one of an individual struggling with addiction, sign up to our Recovering Families UK support programme now.
We also design and develop specialised programmes informed by evidence and robust frameworks, which focus on supporting individuals and whole families impacted by addiction and offending. Our expert team has a broad range of academic and therapeutic experience from counselling to psychology, academia and research.
Some interventions are available as licensed programmes. We can train your staff to deliver them in your area, helping to support more individuals and families through addiction support programmes around the UK, Ireland and internationally.
We also provide professional training on a number of core areas to organisations wishing to improve their knowledge and understanding of addiction and offending, whole family approaches and the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Our programmes include:
‘Relationships Matter’ - an eight-session, psychosocial group programme which supports people to understand and focus on their relationships and explore how their relationships impact them and how they impact their relationships. The programme is delivered by trained facilitators across all of Forward’s services and is available for external delivery via a licenced arrangement.
Find out more about our Professional Training opportunities today.