Family Alcohol Service
Family Alcohol Service (FAS) combines the expertise of Foundation66 and the NSPCC to provide a one-stop service to minimise the effects of family alcohol misuse with the child as the main focus of the work. FAS serves residents of the London Borough of Camden.
What Family Alcohol Service (FAS) does
FAS has a multi-disciplinary team who work with any significant adult or family member, individually and/or together, to help them minimize the harm done to children by a drinking parent or carer. The work builds upon the family's own values and strengths. FAS offers:
- Alcohol and parenting assessments
- One-to-one work with the drinking/ substance misusing parent
- One-to-one work with the non-drinking family members
- Therapeutic work with children
- Family sessions with parents/carers their children and the wider family
- Parenting sessions
- Goal setting and reviews
- Home visits
- Work with families for up to a year
- Brief interventions, advice and information
- Liaison, support and training to other professionals in Camden
Who we help
Camden residents who are:
- Families with children under 18
- Drinking parent or carer
- Non-drinking parent or carer, whether the drinker engages or not
- Young people with or without their family
- Extended family including kin-carers
- Others who have significance in the child's life
How FAS works
We help the family members to understand the physical and psychological effects of alcohol misuse and the part that this plays in their family life. We work with parents on improving parenting skills. We help to develop strategies which enable children to be cared for with or without problem adult alcohol use.
Referral to FAS
Self-referrals or referrals from professionals are taken by telephone. Professionals will be asked to give as detailed information as possible and to provide relevant reports and assessments.
FAS Downloads (requires PDF reader)
Family Alcohol Service leaflet (BAME Families)
Family Alcohol Service leaflet (Children & Young People)
Family Alcohol Service leaflet (Families)
