Adfam Online Training 2025
Adfam’s range of CPD accredited training courses provide professionals and practitioners with the skills they need to better support families affected by substance use.
Our training is delivered online, via Zoom and we have a number of new training dates scheduled, running right up until the end of 2025. Find our latest dates and courses below:
Families, Drugs & Alcohol – Essential Skills
- Thursday 6th November 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
- Tickets: £100
- Info: This one day training looks at brief interventions for working with families affected by drug and alcohol use. This course is designed for everyone working with adult family members affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol use. No previous experience required.
- Find out more and register here
New course! Supporting children affected by the substance use of a parent or sibling
- Friday 14th & 18th November 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
- Tickets: £150
- Info: This two-day course explores the effects of substance use in the family on children, and how to support them. The course covers both direct support for children and young people, and how to support non-substance using parents or other adults to support children appropriately.
- Find out more and register here
New course! Understanding and supporting people affected by the stigma of substance use
- Wednesday 19th November 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
- Tickets: £95 (Anti-Stigma Network members) £110 (non-members)
- Info: A new CPD-accredited course on stigma and substance use, launched in partnership between the Anti-Stigma Network and Adfam. This one-day training is suitable for any frontline practitioner or professional whose work may bring them into contact with people who use substances and their families. It aims to educate people to recognise the causes and consequences of stigma and offers practical ways to challenge and overcome stigma.
- Find out more and register here
Trauma in families affected by substance use
- Thursday 20th November 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
- Tickets: £100
- Info: This one day training will equip practitioners to work more effectively with families affected by substance use where there is trauma. Participants will learn the neuroscience of trauma and practical strategies to support families.
- Find out more and register here
Using CBT to support families affected by addiction
- Wednesday 3rd December 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm
- Tickets: £100
- Info: This one day training looks at using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) skills to support families affected by addiction. The course covers all the essential skills that can help families to change their unhelpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours in response to a loved one’s addiction.
- Find out more and register here
All Adfam training courses are also available to be commissioned, for a full list of available courses see our training brochure.
For more information about Adfam’s training, you can get in touch with us at admin@adfam.org.uk.