Expression of Interest Form - Renfrewshire Family Recovery College 2022 |
About the Family Recovery College
The Family Recovery College offers a free informal 9 week course, Understanding Substance Use and Holding on to Hope, for anyone living in Scotland who are concerned about someone else’s alcohol or drug use.
It will be delivered with 6 online and 3 in-person sessions.
We will support you to build knowledge, skills, and confidence to support yourself and your loved one.
The course will take place online every Wednesday 7-9pm, starting with an in person event on Saturday the 30th of April and finishing on Saturday the 25th of June 2022.
Students on the course will:
- Increase their positive connection with others
- Develop communication strategies to improve relationships
- Improve self-care and emotional wellbeing
- Improve understanding of substance use through new knowledge and skills
Feel empowered to influence change in their lives and the lives of their loved one.
We developed this course in spring 2019 with a group of family members who have their own lived experience of supporting a loved one with problematic drug/alcohol use. Our course advisors worked with us to design, deliver and evaluate the project to ensure that it was helpful and relevant to participants needs. The course ran for the first time in the summer of 2019 and has been adapted to respond to the evaluation we received from participants and course advisors.
Eligibility:
We developed this course in spring 2019 with a group of family members who have their own lived experience of supporting a loved one with problematic drug/alcohol use. Our course advisors worked with us to design, deliver and evaluate the project to ensure that it was helpful and relevant to participants needs. The course ran for the first time in the summer of 2019 and has been adapted to respond to the evaluation we received from participants and course advisors.
Eligibility:
Anyone who is affected by another person’s drug or alcohol use is warmly welcomed – that includes biological and non-biological families, BAME families, LGBT+ people and families, families with or without children, friends, partners, siblings, young people, older people, foster carers, kinship carers, neighbours, work colleagues, etc.
Whilst this course is set in Renfrewshire, If you are able to travel for most of the 3 face to face meetings you are welcome regardless of where you live.
We hope to make the Family Recovery College accessible to all. Please do not hesitate to contact us if there is anything additional we can do to make you feel welcomed and included.
Why the Family Recovery College is important:
Families and concerned significant others often take on the primary role of caring for or supporting their loved one. Due to the secrecy, shame and stigma of supporting a loved one with problematic drug and alcohol use often there is little acknowledgement or support for those doing the supporting. Many people find themselves experiencing long-term mental health and physical health conditions, often related to the challenges and stress of their caring role. We hope that the Family Recovery College will enable students to feel empowered to support both themselves and their loved one.
Please note: If you have any concerns or difficulties completing this form please phone us to complete an expression of interest over the phone - Debra 07379830357 or Tich 07775252380.
The programme is certificated by Scottish Families as the Scottish Government’s Nationally Commissioned Organisation (NCO) for families affected by alcohol or drug use.