Frontline run a number of groups throughout the year to provide support for our clients in a group environment. These groups are a safe space in which the participants can share their experiences and work on self-development.
SAFE SPACE
Our 8-week Addiction Support Programme is aimed at individuals who want to make change around their addiction. Through a series of psycho-educational workshops focusing on addiction and its related complications, a safe space is created for participants to form a support group. Through this, participants share their experiences and allow self-development through the use of art as a therapeutic approach.
The level of change is dependent on the individual, such as wanting to stabilise or focus on harm reduction; to engaging in a community detox or residential treatment. Others might be looking to move into recovery or to make progression in their professional and personal lives.
The programme runs once a year on Tuesday afternoons and Thursday mornings. It can be accessed by anybody living in the Dublin area. Participants who complete this programme usually continue onto the Connections Programme.
STABILISATION
Connections is a 12-week psycho-educational stabilisation programme, which runs two mornings and two afternoons per week, twice yearly. The programme is aimed at individuals in recovery from substance misuse or who are motivated to change their substance use. It focuses on four key areas of development: Stabilisation, Health (Personal & Mental), Personal Development and Progression & Choices.
Participants have weekly one-to-one check-ins with an addiction practitioner to support them through the 12 weeks of the programme and to also identify their next steps upon completion of the programme. This may involve starting a CE Programme, returning to education or employment or a referral into treatment.
BENZODIAZEPINES
The Benzodiazepine Awareness & Support Group is facilitated by staff from Frontline & Canal Communities Regional Addiction Service – CCRAS. It is open to anyone using benzodiazepines and looking to learn more about them, change their benzodiazepine use or maintain changes already made.
It is an educational support group providing information on benzodiazepines and the process of reducing benzo use or detoxing, as well as managing factors relating to using/stopping benzos such as anxiety, cravings, and withdrawals. It runs each Tuesday from 11.30am – 1.00pm in 74 Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8.
Frontline also runs a weekly SMART Recovery Group – this is a closed group for clients of Frontline on a waitlist basis.
The group programmes are run in our Bluebell, Dublin 12 office. If you are interested in taking part or would like to find out more, please fill in the online contact form.
