CADAS HELPLINE: 0800 254 5658
Available on weekdays
11am - 5pm (Wed 11am - 7pm)
Please phone: 0300 1114002
If you have a general enquiry or are a professional seeking information.
Reducing harmful addiction across Cumbria
East Cumbria Family Support
Is addiction impacting your family?
We’re here to help.
We work with you to tackle unhealthy habits and addictions and support you to create a better environment for you and your loved ones.
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Is this service for you?
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Are you worried about your own or someone else in your family's problematic addictive behaviour?
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Would you/someone in your family like help to make positive changes around your/their addiction or substance use?
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Is this causing conflict in your family?
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Would you like to be closer or communicate better as a family?
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If one or more of these statements is true for you, then we can help.
Family Support
The CADAS Family Support Project will help you with your addictive behaviour and support you as a family unit. Our personalised support encompasses parenting skills, mental health and emotional wellbeing, reducing isolation and signposting to additional support where necessary.
Therapeautic Support
1-1 therapeutic sessions, with trained staff provide the opportunity to find new ways to approach the challenges you are facing. We will agree a plan together and work with you to achieve recovery.
Tools Available
Mindfulness- an evidence based practice of focusing your attention on the present moment, helping to improve emotional resilience and our ability to deal with stressful situations.
The Decider Skills- these skills use CBT to teach individuals how to recognise their thoughts, feelings and behaviour, enabling them to monitor and manage their own emotions and mental health.
Accu-stimulation (Black box) and EFT (Tapping)- where available, please speak to a member of staff.
