Brighton Family Service, Brighton
Specialist family service for parents overcoming alcohol and drug problems
About us:
The Brighton Family Service provides a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation service for up to 17 adults and children, offering families spacious living and high quality accommodation and décor.
The service is situated in a pleasant residential part of Brighton, one to two miles from the seafront. The building comprises of one self-contained flat and six bed sitting rooms with en suite, including shared cooking and laundry facilities.
Communal areas include a resident’s lounge, combined training and computer room, Ofsted registered under 5 crèche, garden and external soft play area for the children.
What does the Brighton Family Service aim to achieve?
The Service caters for parents who wish to address their substance misuse problem whilst continuing to live with and care for their children.
The stable and supportive environment enables:
• Individual family members to work towards identifying and addressing their own emotional needs / problems
• The family to work together, rebuilding relationships between individual members and the family as a whole
• Parents to become drug and / or alcohol free
• Parents to resolve outstanding legal practical and child protection issues
Parents do not have to be drug free on admission. A detoxification service is offered with monitoring and advice on gradual withdrawal programmes. This enables parents to become drug and alcohol free without separating families. Emphasis is placed on meeting children’s emotional needs and enabling adults to develop new parenting skills.
What kind of help and services can I expect?
The service offers a comprehensive health and social care package to meet the individual needs of parents and children within a semi-structured programme.
Therapeutic approaches include psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing.
Adult services include:
• Individual care plan
• Detoxification service
• Individual key work sessions
• Peer support and community groups
• Therapeutic groups focusing on specific issues e.g. Addiction, Parenting and Self Development.
• Educational / skills based groups
• Adults are encouraged to participate in voluntary work
• Practical advice e.g. housing and budgeting
• 10 and 20 week review reports including full written reports
• Liaison with external agencies to secure additional services
• Access to sporting / recreational activities
• Regular visits to local leisure centres
• Alternative and complementary therapies
Children services / activity
• Individual care plan
• Regular monitoring
• Registered crèche for 0 – 5 year olds
• Child development work and therapeutic input
• Access to local schools, nursery or mother and toddler groups
• Supervised parent and child play activities
• Baby gym / play schemes
• Encouragement of outside sporting activities
• After school activities maybe held at the service
• Craft workshops
• Music groups
• Individual family key work sessions
• Regular link works, which include practical advice
• 10 and 20 week reviews held at the service including full written reports
Family services include:
• Regular progress reviews involving social services where appropriate
• Promotion of healthy living as a family
• Addressing family relationship issues
• Encouraging residents to further develop parenting skills whilst empowering them to introduce routines and boundaries in a family setting
• Discharge reports provided at the end of a placement
• Family outings to promote family relationships and parenting skills
• Onward referral to appropriate agencies when families leave
Contact Details:
Brighton Family Service
160 Dyke Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 5PA
Telephone: 01273 558 645