Learning and Development
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs deliver a range of workforce learning and development sessions including:
- Introduction to Supporting Families
- Family Inclusive Practice
- Facilitating a Support Group
- Bereaved Through Substance Use
We have worked with families and organisations that help and support families for over 20 years. We have been given invaluable information from family members to be able to provide these sessions to the alcohol, drug and wider workforce, and to have people living with someone else’s alcohol or drug use recognised and supported.
How to book a course
If you would like some further information or would like to book one of the courses below contact us at training@sfad.org.uk.
You can also fill out our training enquiry form.
Introduction to Supporting Families
Are you looking to take your first steps in developing your knowledge about why families need support? Learn about the unique needs and experiences of family members and understand how empathy and listening skills are so important to family support.
This course is beginner level and designed to be a first step for anyone who would like to find out about families affected by alcohol and drugs.
- Recognise that families need support and how this can be different to that for the alcohol or drug user.
- Discuss family members’ experiences and needs, and how family members can support recovery.
- Relate empathy and listening skills to family support.
- Identify local support options for family members.
Family Inclusive Practice
Family Inclusive Practice is about how professionals in the workforce actively involve a person’s family and social networks in their care, are proactive in asking about the needs of the whole family, and make sure all family members are supported.
This course is designed to be an in-depth look at all aspects of families support needs, what we are aiming for within Scotland, and how practitioners can adapt innovative approaches to best include families.
By completing this training, you will be able to:
- Define family inclusive practice.
- Recognise family inclusive practice in relation to the evidence base, ROSC development and the Quality Principles in service delivery.
- Recognise the value of lived experience of family members and their support needs.
- Develop an understanding of the required qualities and skills to effectively engage with families.
- Identify opportunities to include families to support whole family recovery.
- Identify practical strategies to work with families and overcome barriers to family engagement.
Facilitating a Support Group
Are you interested in running a support group? Our training is perfectly suited to helping you explore the skills and knowledge you will need to effectively lead a group.
By completing this training, you will be able to:
- Recognise and understand the role of the facilitator in peer-led family support.
- Identify and develop group ground rules and appropriate policies and procedures such as confidentiality and safeguarding.
- Discuss and identify potential challenges in the group and the best ways to resolve these.
- Identify key planning skills to structure and manage support group meetings.
- Identify ways of getting feedback from group members to make sure they are getting the right support.
Bereaved Through Substance Use
Are you interested in learning more about bereavement from drug or alcohol use? Our session will help you to explore this sensitive subject and to understand the unique and difficult impact that a loss can have on friends and family.
This course is primarily designed for professionals, but it is also suitable for anyone interested in learning about Bereaved Through Substance Use. This could be families, professional members of the workforce, people in recovery, or the wider community.
By completing this training, you will be able to:
- Define a drug or alcohol-related death.
- Identify key overdose risks.
- Recognise stigma and isolation about a drug or alcohol-related death.
- Recognise practical issues specific to a drug-related death.
- Recognise key messages from ‘Bereaved Through Substance Use’.
- Recognise self-care and support for the workforce impacted by a drug or alcohol-related death.