Alcohol Help

Sheffield Family Service: Sheffield
Specialist family service for parents addressing their substance misuse and related issues

About us:

The Sheffield Family Service was opened in 1996 and provides a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation service for up to 27 parents and children (a total of 12 families).

The Sheffield Family Service provides a 6 month rehabilitation programme for parents who wish to address their substance misuse issues whilst continuing to live with and care for their children. The service offers a stable and supportive environment that provides the opportunity for the facilitation of change in the following areas:

Education and employment helping parents return to education or undertake voluntary work.
Families remaining together with significant and sustained improvement in circumstances, a stable lifestyle, increased awareness of and provision of children?s needs (significantly reducing risk for those children on an ?at risk? register).

The Service offers a comprehensive health and social care package to meet the individual needs of parents and children within a semi-structured programme. A wide range of therapeutic approaches are practised including psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing.

How do residents spend their time at the Service?

Individual key work sessions: All parents are assigned their own individual key worker on admission. Individual care plans are discussed and devised on a one to one basis identifying goals and targets for the parent to work towards and achieve during their stay. These are regularly reviewed and revised in order to continually assess progress through the programme.

Groupwork : Our group work programme enables parents to develop their communication and social skills. Educational and skills based groups and seminars cover topics such as positive parenting, life-skills, substance misuse, coping strategies, self-development and health issues. Individual attitudes and behaviour patterns are challenged and emphasis is placed on the development of self-worth and personal responsibility.

Children and family work: Each child is allocated their own named childcare worker who contributes to the monitoring and assessment process concentrating on the child(ren)?s emotional and physical development, along with their interaction with the parent(s). Our programme incorporates parenting groups and parent and child activity mornings. Children can attend playgroups, nurseries and schools in the local community depending on the age of the child, however the parents remain the primary providers of care for their children at all times with guidance and support from staff provided wherever appropriate. Our monitoring systems ensure that parents acquire the insight and nurturing skills required to care adequately for their children.

Multi-agency work: The Family Service utilises a multi-agency approach and ensures that all parents and children are registered with local health services, schools and other areas of need identified through the care planning process. These include access to agencies in relation to domestic violence, external counselling including bereavement and sexual abuse; older children support services, BME groups and services, Sure Start, alternative therapies and education services.

Contact Details:

Sheffield Family Service
29-31 Collegiate Crescent
Broomhall
Sheffield

S10 2BJ

Telephone: 0114 268 5131

Sheffield Residential Service: Sheffield
Specialist care for adults overcoming drug and alcohol dependency

About us:

What is the Phoenix Futures Sheffield Residential Service?

The Sheffield Residential Service is a rehabilitation service for drug and alcohol misusers. It is located in a leafy suburb on the edge of Sheffield, within easy reach of the city’s facilities and on the edge of the Peak District National Park. This beautiful Victorian House accommodates up to 36 men and women aged 18+ who wish to take control of their drug or alcohol problem.

What does the Phoenix Futures Sheffield Service aim to achieve?

The service provides a safe, supportive and structured environment where residents participate in groups and one-to-one sessions to explore the underlying reasons for their dependency. Through a process of self-awareness and understanding patterns of personal behaviour, residents are encouraged to acquire new skills and formulate strategies that will enable them to develop a healthy, drug free lifestyle and return to independent living in the community.

What kind of help and services can I expect?

The service offers a comprehensive therapeutic programme delivered by fully trained and professional staff. This is provided within a residential setting, ensuring access to a range of health and social care support services to suit individual needs. Participation in the therapeutic programme helps to promote change by encouraging self-worth and personal responsibility, challenging individual attitudes and behaviour, and encouraging the development of life and social skills.

Key features of the Service include:

• therapeutic community programme
• abstinence based
• fast access into treatment
• fully integrated detoxification programme
• individualised treatment plans
• group and one-to-one work
• additional gender specific groups
• black resident support group
• offender behaviour work
• fully integrated skills and education programme
• relapse prevention
• fully integrated conservation therapy programme
• leisure and sports activities
• resettlement support
• specialist prison resettlement service for offenders completing a prison therapeutic community programme
• aftercare services

How is the rehabilitation programme structured?

The rehabilitation programme is tailored to your individual needs, within a framework of 4 Stages. They are:
• Induction
• Primary Stage
• Senior Stage
• Re-entry Stage

The length of time you spend in each stage will depend on your individual needs and how quickly you achieve the goals identified for each stage of treatment. On admission to the service, individual care plans are developed between you, the key worker and multi-disciplinary team. As you progress through the programme, care concentrates on life skills and education to sustain long-term recovery on leaving the service.

Induction is the settling in stage of the programme when you can expect a high level of support from residents and staff. You will begin to learn about the programme and therapeutic community structure, the house routine and rules, while engaging and identifying with those people around you. You may also experience some withdrawals or undergo a detoxification programme at this stage.

Contact Details:

Sheffield Residential Service
229 Graham Road
Ranmoor
Sheffield

S10 3GS

Telephone: 0845 600 7227

The Greens, Sheffield
The Greens is a residential ‘dry house’ for people over the age of 25 with alcohol related problems.

About us:

The Greens can accommodate up to sixteen people. each service user has their own fully furnished room and shared use of all other facilities. There are several bathrooms, toilets, a shower room and a large kitchen. There is a lounge/dining room and a separate TV lounge with a pool table and access to a computer. There is also an outbuilding, which is used as a ‘quiet room’ for meetings, appointments, key-working and for seeing visitors etc

The Greens operates a no-smoking policy in all communal rooms of the project. Howevr, service users are permitted to smoke in their own rooms and outside the house.

All service users are allocated a named Support Worker. During the key-working sessions and Individual Personal Plan (Support Plan) is completed. This is a joint agreement that identifies the service user’s aims and objectives. the plan is used as a working tool and is reviewed regularly.

Staff will assist service users to access any relevant external service – i.e. additional alcohol/specialised counselling, medical advice/treatment, advice and/or guidance in relation to benefits, housing and legal issues.

Staff will work with the service user with regards to their specific move-on requirements. The Personal Development Worker supports service users in registering with housing providers, bidding for properties, viewing properties and purchasing furniture etc. The Greens allows people to stay for up to two years, SAFAR also has a ‘halfway house’ where service users can be referred to if appropriate.

This enables people to continue to live in a safe and alcohol free environment but with a lesser degree of support and acts as a stepping-stone between supported accommodation and independent living.

What We Can Offer

* Own room
* 24 hour staff cover
* Named Support Worker
* Access to the Personal Development Worker
* Guidance and Support
* Support to develop the skills needed to live independently
* Support to enable the service user to move on when appropriate
* Support to access other services
* Regular service user meetings

Contact Details:

The Greens
40-44 Southey Avenue
Sheffield
S5 7NL

Telephone: 0114 2855244

Linwood Park, Barnsley
Abstinence based detox centre.

About us:

Abstinence based detoxification unit providing medically assisted detox and an introduction to the therapy process incorporating CBT, Motivational Interviewing, 12 Step philosophy and educational

Linwood Park is our dedicated, alcohol detox centre in South Yorkshire. The unit has been set up to provide a comfortable and safe environment to detox from alcohol and also to begin the treatment process.

We have a highly competent and dedicated medical staff that together with experienced therapists will ensure that your stay will be a positive and motivating experience.

Looking for Help with Alcohol Problems?

If you are dependent on alcohol you may experience withdrawal symptoms several hours after your last drink. Withdrawal symptoms include:

* Nausea
* Tremors
* Sweats
* Craving for alcohol
* Anxiety

Convulsions (fits) may occur in a small number of cases. As a result of this you drink alcohol regularly and ‘depend’ on it to prevent these symptoms.

Many people ‘top up’ their drinking to prevent these symptoms occurring this may be known as ‘hair of the dog’.

If you do not ‘top up’ or re-start drinking these feelings can last 5 – 7 days. During this time the withdrawal can be very unpleasant and you may have a drink to alleviate these feelings.
Alcohol Detoxification Process

On admission we will prescribe a course of tablets which will reduce the severity of the withdrawal and safely cover the time until your body adjusts physically to a state free from alcohol.

The tablets used for detox are normally a reducing regime of chlordiazepoxide (commonly the trade name Librium) and a course of vitamin B1 (thiamine). This vitamin is vital to help restore and repair the damage alcohol may have caused to your brain and nervous system.

How you may feel during the first 24 – 48 hours of detoxification

* You may feel anxious
* You may have difficulty initially in getting to sleep
* You may feel clammy or sweaty

The detox process usually takes 7 days and is carried out at our detox unit at Linwood Park in South Yorkshire.

Detox alone is not the treatment for alcohol dependence, but only a start. You are very strongly advised to enter a period of therapy, where the reasons and triggers for your drinking behaviour will be addressed. A week’s detox is rarely enough to give you the life you can experience without the daily grind of having to drink.

At the end of detox you can then choose to remain at Linwood Park or transfer to Linwood Manor to continue your treatment. (Our staff can transfer you to Linwood Manor at no extra cost).

The length of our treatment programme is usually four weeks (including detox) but can be tailored to individual needs on assessment.

Contact Details:

Linwood Park
Wensley Road
New Lodge
Barnsley

S71 1TJ

Telephone: 01226 298910