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Parental Substance Misuse: Impact on Children & Families


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Dates

  • 2024:  3 June
  • 2025:  9 January

Course details

  • Time:  9:30am to 4:30pm
  • Venue:  Coed Pella, Colwyn Bay
  • Targeted services:  Community Wellbeing, Disability Team, Family Support & Intervention, Children Looked After, Commissioned Services, Vulnerable People Team, Foster Carers, Glan yr Afon 
    Target group: 
    t his course would be beneficial to all professionals working directly with children and young people, including: Foster Carers, Social Workers (especially those in their first 3 years of practice), Family Intervention Workers, residential staff

Course aims and objectives

Parents who use alcohol and other drugs can provide good enough parenting, but parental substance misuse can cause serious harm to children at all stages from conception through into adulthood.  This course will help practitioners to assess and intervene.

  • Reflecting on our values around drug use
  • Is it use, problematic use or addiction?
  • Different drugs and what they do
  • How the effects of these drugs might impair the tasks of being a parent
  • How children at each stage of development might be impacted
  • What we can do to help

For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.

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