When a child or young person has a parent in recovery from problematic drug or alcohol use, their stories are crucial to understanding, supporting and assisting them to thrive. ‘Everyone Has a Story’ shows us we need to listen more to these stories and how this can be done.
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Everyone Has a Story Overview Report
"...it starts with listening to their story."
Report Theme: Health & Wellbeing
Author: Partnership Drugs Initiative
Year Evidence Completed: 2016
Size of Study: 101-500
Age range: 0-4 5-6 7-10 11-14 15-17 18+
Location: Scotland-wide
Everyone Has a Story Component 2
What Practitioners tell us
Report Theme: Health & Wellbeing
Author: Partnership Drugs Initiative
Year Evidence Completed: 2016
Size of Study: 101-500
Location: Scotland-wide
This component provides insight into the views of practitioners from a range of disciplines but primarily working with children and young people whose parents have a problem with drugs or alcohol or are in the early stages of recovery. The survey analysis aims to help provide an increased understanding of support and gather practitioner’s views of the needs of the child or young person that could help create a better understanding of the support needs for children and young people whose parents are in recovery from problematic drug and alcohol use.
Everyone Has a Story Component 4
What the evidence tells us
Report Theme: Health & Wellbeing
Author: Partnership Drugs Initiative
Year Evidence Completed: 2016
Age range: 0-4 5-6 7-10 11-14 15-17
Location: Scotland-wide
This component, ‘What the evidence tells us’, provides a comprehensive
summary of the evidence, including formal literature, giving an overview of what we know are the potential protective and risk factors for children and young people. Its aim is to provide an understanding of the existing research and potential gaps that could help us have a better understanding of the support needs for children and young people whose parents are in recovery from drugs and alcohol.
Everyone Has a Story Component 3
How young people could share their story
Report Theme: Culture, Media & The Arts
Author: Partnership Drugs Initiative
Year Evidence Completed: 2016
Size of Study: 11-30
Age range: 15-17
This component part focuses on the feedback from the Call to Action event and how we looked at engaging children and young people in a way that would given them a voice as to answer the question, how would you like to share your story? A group of five young people involved in Clued Up based in Kirkcaldy worked alongside icecream architecture to give their take on what this question meant and what they would want.
Everyone Has A Story Component 1
What we hear from the stories and experiences
Report Theme: Health & Wellbeing
Author: Partnership Drugs Initiative
Year Evidence Completed: 2016
Size of Study: 31-50
Location: Scotland-wide
This component gives more insight into the process followed and the learning gained by practitioners, both individually and collectively, as they gathered and analysed short stories shared with them by children and young people.