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Identify Need
The need for a family support group may be identified in a number of ways including, a community drugs project worker through their contacts in work or by a family member who needs to talk and share with others in a similar situation. A group must start somewhere and someone must take the first step.
What do you want to set-up?
Family Support Service/Family Support Group?
Preliminary Work Engage in research
- Contact the Family Support Network to inform them of your intentions and to source advice and information
- Visit other Family Support Groups and source information from these groups
For example;
- 1. How do the parents benefit from going to the group?
- 2. What is working within the group for example relaxation techniques, educational inputs, information exchange, peer support?
- 3. What services do members of the group use to support them in coping with drug use within the family?
- 4. How did members of the group find about the group?
- 5. What attracted them to joining the group?
- 6. What would encourage other parents to join the group?
- 7. How often does the group meet?
- 8. Do people take turns to facilitate the group?
- 9. Do members of the group have facilitation skills?
Local Issues
- What are the main issues for family members coping with drug use?
- Are there issues for family members that are specific to the local area, for example housing is a big issue in the North Inner City?
- Meet with other service providers in the local area to see the diversity of services offered
- Discuss the possibility of making referrals if and when the Family Support Group is established
- Services to visit – Treatment services, Counselling Services, Community Welfare Officers, Social Workers, G.P.s, schools, hospitals, family resource centres, community development projects.
Family Support Network
16 Talbot Street, Dublin, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365 168
Phone: +353 (0)1 874 7156
Email:info@fsn.ie
Web: www.fsn.ie
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