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Upcoming Training

 

SUBSTANCE MISUSE & FAMILIES

 

 

OPTION 2 MODEL TRAINING

 

A THREE-DAY COURSE

 

 

If you are interested in developing your family intervention skills

within substance misuse you may be interested in this 3-day course.

 

Substance misuse is no longer a single client issue.

We need to engage families to address change.

Substance Misuse professionals and Child & Family professionals

need & want effective models for family interventions.

This course will help you think about approaches, engage the whole family,

& provide you with skills, techniques & a tool kit of family interventions.

Dates:

 

Monday 17th May

 

 

Tuesday 18th May &

 

 

Wednesday 19th May

 

 

 

2010

 

 

 

Daily: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

 

Because numbers will be limited, please indicate your

wish to attend by responding by email to the address

below no later than 10th May 2010

 

Click here for the flyer

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Participant Feedback:

“The course was concise & well-paced”

“Great to have such a defined, clear model; such specific tools & adaptable, useful resources”

 “…a great facilitator & really brought the ethos of the project & the many great tools used to life for me.

 everything will get translated into practice”.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Option 2

House 54

Cardiff Royal Infirmary

Newport Road

CARDIFF CF24 0SZ

Tel: 029 20 460 111

Contact us for more details

  • Substance Misuse and Families - Option 2 three day training


 

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Supervision in Outcome Focused

 

Services
 

A One-Day Course
 

Tailor made for you

 

To express an interest please email Option2@cardiff.gov.uk 

 


Training and Consultancy Services

Following several years of developing and successfully delivering the Option 2 model, we regularly run courses and workshops across the UK, flexibly designed to fit your organisations needs.

 

We are the UK experts in brief intensive interventions with families incorporating Motivational Interviewing and outcome focused practice.

 

Our Training & Consultancy Service is available to assist you & your teams in:

  • Engaging families in behaviour change

  • Effective approaches to Mental Health, Substance Misuse, and Domestic Violence

  • Helping parents meet their children’s needs


Option 2 Model & Resources

 

For teams interested in the approach of the Option 2 Model, we offer a range of training opportunities

from half-day workshops focussing on a particular Option 2 tool,

to 4-days training & support to organisations wishing to set up a service based on the Model.

  • Option 2: Implementing the Option 2 model

  • Practice Toolbox

  • Substance Misuse Counselling in the Child Protection Arena

  • Awareness Raising and Effective Approaches

From a skill base of motivational approaches & outcome focussed work

20 years experience in evidenced based practice

 


Refocusing Organisations

For organisations interested in outcome focussed interventions with families, we offer a range of packages from ½ day workshops aimed at expanding practice techniques & resources, to a year’s management & workforce training with supervision & coaching.

Packages can include any & all of the following:

  • Management Training in Supporting an Effective Workforce:

  • Outcome Focussed Approaches

  • Workforce Training: Enhancing Motivation & Engaging Families in Behaviour Change

  • Organisational Supervision & Coaching: Outcome Focussed Approaches


Presentation Sessions

We have presentation sessions in Cardiff, which are free. 

These give the opportunity to discuss the model and the results.

Please contact us for more details.

 


 

Contact Details

 

Training & Consultancy Service

 

Email us at Option2@Cardiff.gov.uk

Ring us on 01446 725264 (24 hour answerphone)

 


 

Download more information

 

These are .pdf files,

right click and choose 'save as' to save to your computer

 

Training Leaflet Front

Training Leaflet Back

 

 

Option 2 Powerpoint

 

Working with the Police to tackle Domestic Violence

Working with Resistance in Families Experiencing Violence: Evidence based practice & local resources

 

 

What people think of our training