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TRAINING INFO
OUR OFFER
- Our core courses are now all fully accredited by The CPD Certification Service.
- For a full list of training courses available please see our training brochure.
- All courses are available to be commissioned, find out more here on the Professionals page.
- We also offer ‘open’ training sessions that people can sign up to an individual basis. These are listed on our training calendar seen above
- Find out more about our team of highly skilled and knowledgeable trainers in the tab below.
To get in touch with Adfam regarding our training offer email admin@adfam.org.uk.
TRAINERS
LAUREN BOOKER
Lauren Booker has over twenty years’ experience of working with adults and young people affected by their own or someone else’s substance use. She has a BHSc in Addiction Studies and an MSc in Health and Wellbeing. An experienced counsellor, coach and addictions therapist, she is also a passionate advocate for families affected by addiction, working to reduce stigma and improve access to treatment and support.
Lauren delivers training and consultancy services throughout the UK on a wide range of related topics. She is the author of Try Dry, The Official Guide to a Month off Booze, the book that accompanies Dry January.
LOUISE BOLTON
Louise Bolton has 18 years’ experience working in substance misuse and homelessness across communities, prison and residential services. She holds a BSc Social Work and a diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling and has undertaken additional training with the Tavistock to work with couple conflict and alcohol dependence. As well as experience in managing innovative and targeted services, Louise develops and delivers bespoke training for aimed at practitioners in frontline services across the sector. Louise is passionate about coaching and developing people to meaningfully support others.
MIKE WARD
Mike Ward has worked most of his career in substance misuse services as a practitioner, manager or commissioner. He leads the award winning Blue Light project which is developing responses to change resistant and dependent drinkers. He was co-author of Adfam’s Blue Light for Families guidance. The work on The Blue Light project in Sandwell has won both a Guardian Public Service Award and a Royal Society for Public Health award. He is the author of 10 Safeguarding Adult Reviews as well as guidance on Safeguarding Vulnerable Dependent Drinkers (with Prof Michael Preston-Shoot). He is now leading a national project to improve the response to cognitive impairment in drinkers. He is the co-author of Adfam’s guidance on co-occurring disorders.
PETER CARTWRIGHT
Peter Cartwright has worked with families affected by substance use since 1998 as a trainer, counsellor, author and researcher. He has supported family members through outreach at prison visitors’ centres, helplines, counselling and family support groups. Additionally, he has written and delivered training courses to family members and professionals on many aspects of supporting families; as well as some clinical supervision to Adfam’s support staff. Peter has a specialism in counselling family members who are bereaved through a substance-related death. His publications in this area include ‘Supporting people bereaved through a drug- or alcohol-related death’, the first book to address how to counsel these marginalised bereaved people; the research paper ‘How helpful is counselling for people bereaved through a substance-related death?’; and was the primary author and the chair of the national working group that produced ‘Bereaved through substance use: Guidelines for those whose work brings them into contact with adults after a drug or alcohol-related death’ published by the University of Bath.
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