Publications

Embrace publications

Newsletters:

Glance sheets:

Useful Resources Supplement (pdf)

Useful Resources Update May 2010 (pdf)

Useful Resources Update September 2010 (pdf)

Year 1 evaluation: Getting the Foundations Right (pdf)

Year 2 evaluation: We must look at this through the Embrace goggles (pdf)

Year 3 evaluation (final): Think Family Safely: Enhancing the Response of Alcohol Services to Domestic Abuse and Families (pdf)

Embracing alcohol, domestic abuse and families - a new approach (pdf)

Other useful publications

Supporting problem drinking parents: training and resources
Training materials for alcohol professionals, briefings and good practice guidelines on working with parents who misuse alcohol can be downloaded from Alcohol Concern's Alcohol and Families website

Toolkits for professionals working with children whose parents misuse alcohol
A range of toolkits is available on the Alcohol Concern website. Each toolkit has been designed for specific professional groups in social work, in primary care, in education and in alcohol services. These can be downloaded from Alcohol Concern's Alcohol and Families website.

Alcohol & Domestic Violence Factsheet
Galvani, S. (2010), UK. Grasping the nettle: alcohol and domestic violence. This completely updated factsheet provides an overview of the association between alcohol and domestic violence and examines the implications for policy and practice.

Putting the children first is an Alcohol Concern booklet for parents and families who are worried about the effect that drinking has on family life.

Supporting families affected by substance misuse and domestic violence is a piece of research by Dr Sarah Galvani of the University of Beford for Adfam.

Adult Drug Problems, Children's Needs: Assessing the impact of parental drug use by Di Hart and Jane Powell
This toolkit in the NCB's Care Matters series supports practitioners in their work with families where parental drug misuse leads to concerns about children's welfare. Access this document from the NCB website. 

A pocket guide for social workers on alcohol and drugs (pdf) has been produced by the British Association for Social Work (BASW) Special Interest Group in Alcohol and other Drugs. This was produced with funding from the AERC and the NTA, and support from BASW and University of Bedfordshire.

Every Child Matters
This is the Government's programme for a national framework to support the 'joining up' of children's services. Working Together to Safeguard Children sets out how individuals and organisations should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

NSPCC toolkit to protect children and young people

Rory
This is a learning resource developed by Alcohol Focus Scotland. It is in the form of an age appropriate story book and tackles the issue of harm caused to children because of parental alcohol problems.

The Rory Resource is now being piloted in ten primary schools and five alcohol support agencies in West Lothian.

Working with the Children & Families of Problem Alcohol Users: A Toolkit
This toolkit was developed by the Mental Health Research and Development Unit at the University of Bath to provide guidance on developing and delivering services to children and families who are affected by substance misuse.

Talking to My Mum: A Picture Workbook for Workers, Mothers and Children Affected by Domestic Abuse by Catherine Humphreys, Ravi Thiara, Audrey Mullender, Agnes Skamballis. 2006 Jessica Kingsley Publishing.

Building Resilience in Families Under Stress is a new handbook, published as part of National Children's Bureau's toolkit series, which explores how professionals can support parenting more effectively in families affected by parental mental health difficulties and/or substance misuse. The toolkit is available from the NCB website.

Camden Domestic Violence Forum (2007) Refining the Routes: Domestic Violence and Substance Misuse: Policies, Procedures and Protocols for Partnership Working in Camden
A practical guide to partnership working to promote safety, success in treatment and better outcomes for clients experiencing domestic violence and substance misuse. Available online.

EACH Asian Women, Domestic Violence and Mental Health toolkit
Funded by Government Office for London, this toolkit was developed to disseminate culturally-appropriate best practice and enable better care of Asian women and their children who suffer physical and mental health consequences of living with domestic violence and abuse. For a copy of the toolkit email EACH.

NHS guidance on domestic abuse
As a response to the DV Crime and Victims Act (2004), The Department of Health developed a publication, 'responding to domestic abuse: A handbook for healthcare professionals' in 2005. You can download this handbook from the Department of Health.

Relate - Good Practice Guidance Handbook
As part of Bridging to Change programme, Relate has produced this handbook for Relate Centres wishing to develop domestic violence and abuse prevention programmes (DVA-PP). Download the guidance.

Stella Project Toolkit This toolkit provides practitioners and service managers working with domestic violence and substance misuse issues with the basic knowledge & skills required to respond to service users safely and appropriately. It also provides sample policy documents, assessment forms and safety plans. Stella has also produced toolkits aimed at Faith communities and a briefing on working with perpetrators, available from the AVA Project. 

Tools for Change: A new way of working with families and carers is a toolkit recently launched in Australia by the Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA). The toolkit has been developed to assist non government drug and alcohol services in working with the families and carers of clients with co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol problems that are accessing their services. The toolkit will be available for download on the NADA website.

Galvani, S (March 2007) Safety in numbers? Tackling domestic abuse in couples and network therapies, Drug and Alcohol Review, 26, 175-181
This article looks at potential safety issues raised by family, network or couple-based interventions where there is evidence of domestic abuse and offers a number of suggestions for how network therapies can remain safe.

The Embrace Project: Helping Alcohol Services to Address Domestic Violence
Safe, The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, Issue 30 Summer 2009, pp22-25.

 

 

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