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About The Option 2 Intervention
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Welcome
to the Option 2
Website!
Take a look at the links in the box on the left, most of the questions that people ask of us are answered here, how the process works, what clients think of it, what our outcomes are and how you can learn more.
What is Option 2?
Option 2 is a crisis intervention service for working with families in crisis, as described in ‘Preventing Breakdown'. Option 2 was brought to the UK by Rhoda Emlyn-Jones and developed in the UK by Cardiff Social Services. Launched in 2000, it quickly won the Community Care award for child protection.
Option 2 use a solution focussed and goal oriented model of intervention. We work with families where there are serious child protection concerns and professionals are considering the need to remove children from the family or place them on the child protection register. We focus on exploring people’s strengths and values, using those strengths and values to develop motivation and set achievable measurable goals. It has proved to be a particularly successful and powerful approach to working with families who are having difficulty. Click here to read more
The Option 2 projects have together created a supportive network, we communicate through our own mailing list and we meet several times a year. Go here to read more.
The different projects in this network use the model in a remarkable variety of different settings and with a wide variety of funding streams. In Middlesbrough Option 2 is part of a Families First Project, Norwich has Option 2 as part of the Family Assessment and Support Team, Conwy has Option 2 based in Conwy Care and Housing, whilst in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Sheffield and Newcastle, Option 2 is part of children's and adults substance misuse services. Click here for more.
Beware of imitations: All the projects on this website have had intensive training by us, in a well researched and evidenced model and use it as the core of their intervention. If it isn't mentioned on this site, it isn't an Option 2 project.
I hope that you find the website useful and informative. If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch with us.
“... I've had more happy times in the last six weeks than I had over the last three years.” (S. mother in a review meeting) |