Introduction.
Drug and or Alcohol misuse maybe happening in your home or affecting someone close to you. It may even be happening in your relationship or to your children. You may feel isolated, humiliated, ashamed, frightened, angry or confused.
BUT you are not to blame. Hetty’s can help.
If you are in such a relationship or someone close to you has a problem with drugs or alcohol:
- Recognise it is happening
- Accept you are not to blame
- Get help and support
Telephone Helpline Support
Hettys provides a free confidential telephone helpline which is open seven days a week, all year around, between the times of 9.00a.m. to 7.00p.m. (including bank holidays and weekends)
The phone is answered by a trained worker or volunteer who has personal experience of issues around drug / alcohol misuse and who will aim to provide you with a shoulder to cry on, a non judgmental listening ear, information on local services and or arrange to send you specific leaflets and details according to need.
Group Support
Service users are offered group support with others who are experiencing distress because of some else’s drug or alcohol use. The groups are facilitated by an empathetic worker or volunteer who has personal experience of these issues. The aim of this work is to reduce isolation, provide a safe environment in which to validate and share experiences and to empower users to help one another to move forward in ways to benefit the whole family.
Individual (one to one) Support
Service users are also encouraged to accept individual support within their home or in a safe place. Some people feel more comfortable talking about their experiences within their own home or in a comfortable place close to their home. The aims and objectives of these sessions are similar to the group work but assessed and planned according to the individual need and experience.
Criminal Justice Work
Hetty’s works in adult male and female prisons delivering structured sessions to prisoners attending Drug Treatment Programs. Hetty’s works in partnership with WAM in Youth Offending Institutions to deliver similar sessions.
The aim of the session is to encourage discussion around responsibility for the breakdown of family relationships and how family members may have been affected by their substance misuse.
This improves understanding, begins to build bridges and enhances family functioning through improved communication between family members (with Hettys support). This can reduce homelessness and re-offending and ultimately improve the long-term recovery and resettlement of offenders.
Complimentary Therapies
Hetty's offers a wide range of complementary therapy sessions to aid
relaxation and promote health and well being. Sessions are available
across the districts of North Nottinghamshire, and include, Reiki,
Indian Head Massage, Colour Therapy and aura cleansing, Emotional
Freedom Technique, Reflexology and Quantum Touch. Therapies are
delivered by trained and qualified therapists with full insurance cover.
All sessions are heavily subsidized at £5 per half hour session for Hetty's
clients and £10 for anyone else who wants to access.
Quantum Touch
Is an energy healing modality that applies the principles of resonance
and entrainment to facilitate healing. Practitioners learn to focus and
amplify life force energy by combining various breathing techniques.
When the practitioner resonates a t a higher frequency the client often
entrains to or matches the higher frequency, thereby facilitating
healing and relieving physical pain, anxieties and emotions.
Emotional Freedom Technique-EFT
This technique involves a simple tapping process, which stimulates well
established energy meridian points on the body, whilst talking and using
chosen statements key chosen statements that are important to the
problem being worked on. It is highly effective at quickly working
through layers associated with physical, mental and emotional problems
and stresses .EFT has been highly effective for treating addictions,
fears, phobias and physical and emotional pain.Simply stated an
emotional version of acupuncture but without the use of needles. It
launches the EFT discovery statement " The cause of all negative
emotions is a disruption in the bodies energy system"
Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 Training Course.
Hetty's have a fully qualified Reiki Master who runs these particular
courses at regular intervals at our office base in Mansfield. Our
maximum numbers for each course is six people, as we like to ensure that
our training sessions are a personal and beautiful experience
Reiki 1 enables you to self heal and to work on family and friends.
Reiki 2 gives you the opportunity to further develop your skills and
become a Reiki practitioner.
Course fees
Reiki 1 £70
Reiki 2 £120
Kinesiology Workshop
Learning the art of applying this simple muscle testing technique, that
will used to locate where weaknesses lie physically and aspects
contributing to these physical problems and it can be applied to
discover underlying mental and emotional factors and routes of stress
and upsets. Along side this process, kinesiology can then be further
applied to discover the best remedy and help for these ailments.
Course fees £55
For course dates and details please contact 01623 643476
Kinship Care
What is Kinship care?
The term ‘kinship’ care describes a type
of care and living arrangement for a child who has to live away from his
or her parental home, and is cared for full-time by a member of the
child’s extended family or friend. A kinship care arrangement is one
either initiated by a local authority or via a relative or friend, and
could involve some sort of assistance or arrangement, including making
decisions about legal orders, financial and social work support.
The main reason for people becoming
kinship carers is to avoid their loved ones’ children being taken into
the care of the local authority.
This, for the kinship carer, is something
that has not necessarily been planned or even wanted. But never the less
been done out of love, devotion, duty, commitment and all the right
reasons for the child’s best interests.
Kinship Care difficulties. .
Feeling isolated, not knowing anyone else
in their situation, not fitting in with peers
Being unsure about benefit entitlements
and being reluctant to ask for help
Finding information, advice and advocacy
services
Needing assistance with their
relationship with their own child (parent of grandchild) as well as
other family members
Coping with strain on relationship with
own partner
Feeling estranged from own age group and
not fitting into resources for parents e.g. mother and toddler groups
etc
There are many more difficulties,
questions and emotions attached to kinship care.
Hetty’s appreciate and understand the
demanding emotional, physical, practical and financial implications of
becoming and being a kinship carer. This has led us to providing a
specialist kinship care worker, support package, (available on request)
and this information leaflet.
All of this combined is offered to you to
hopefully;
lighten the load a little
Alleviate some of the stress
Answer some of your many questions.
Give us a call for an informal chat or to
book an appointment with our Kinship Care Worker.
Text Service
We realise that families can often find it really difficult to make the first step of picking up the phone and accessing help and support for themselves. We also recognise that people with hearing or speech difficulties are not always able to access us via our help-line.
Text 07896 228547 Monday - Friday 9am - 4pm.
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