for individual offence focused programmes to be tailored to the specific needs of young people and families attending the service.
Other programmes include:
Essential Skills Groupwork Programme
The aim of this programme is to support young people to maintain and develop positive participation within schools, their families and community. The programme looks at problem solving, negotiation and reconciliation skills and the effects of various types of behaviour upon others.
Relapse Prevention Groupwork
This groupwork programme will allow young people who have worked with Connect as individuals, in relation to their drug or alcohol difficulties to benefit once stable from a peer support group.
Offending Groupwork Programme
Groupwork provides a powerful method of addressing offending for some young people and we are therefore currently looking at adopting an offence based groupwork programme to deliver over the forthcoming period.
Race Awareness Programme
This is an eight week groupwork programme aimed at young people between the ages of 14-18 years who it is felt would benefit from some intervention directed at race awareness and cultural diversity. Topics covered include discrimination, prejudice, and racial and cultural awareness. Programme delivery includes use of discussion, videos, quizzes and interactive play.
Parenting Skills Programme
This is a 14-week groupwork programme designed to assist parents and carers develop improved skills. The programme makes use of the experience and shared knowledge of group members and facilitators and examines many aspects of caring for and supporting the work with young people experiencing problems.
Parents Support Group
This is a "self help group" and a spin off of the Parenting Skills Group. Parents and carers who have been involved in the Parenting Skills Group recognised that it would be useful to continue to meet, to allow for continued mutual support and development.
COVAID Programme
This is a 12 session individual programme which is designed to work with people who have committed offences of violence whilst under the influence of alcohol. This type of offending was shown by the Youth Justice Audit, undertaken in Falkirk in 2004, to be an issue of concern and therefore Connect have been keen to develop a programme which meets this need.
The Summer Programme
This is an outdoor activity groupwork programme which research shows can be effective when used alongside individual work. Connect have staff trained in providing outdoor activities to groups and the programmes aim to build self-confidence.
Substance Programme
Connect provide individual programmes to young people experiencing difficulty with drugs and/or alcohol. This ranges from the prescribing of opiate substances for young people dependant upon heroin (the methadone programme), to the provision of information and advice to young people experimenting with cannabis and other substances.
Volunteer Programme
Connect have recruited and trained volunteers to allow us to provide a befriending and mentoring service to young people involved with the service.