M-PACT - Moving Parents and Children Together

The Programme

M-PACT is aimed at supporting parents and children/young people aged 10-17 who are experiencing the effects of parental substance misuse within the family.  The programme offers a ‘Whole Family Approach', working with up to eight families at any one time in different group combinations. The programme is made up of 10 sessions, this includes an individual family assessment, eight consecutive weekly core sessions and a family review session. The programme is run by experienced professionals who work with the young people and parents to reduce the harmful impact and harmful patterns that parental substance misuse and addiction can have on everyone's lives. 

The programme has been researched and evaluated by the Mental Health Research & Development Unit (MHRDU) at the University of Bath. Their findings have shown that all the families involved felt that they had been helped by attending the programme.  Follow the link to read the full Research briefing.

The M-PACT (UK) Project

M-PACT (UK) is the result of a growing awareness that services for children and young people suffering the consequence of parental substance misuse, have been limited, fragmented or non-existent across the UK.

Following successful pilot programmes, the organisation realised that M-PACT had and could continue to make a difference to families suffering the consequences of substance misuse.  This has been addressed by making the M-PACT programme available, under Licence, to agencies and professionals across the UK. An M-PACT manual, together with the M-PACT training course will enable agencies and their staff to deliver M-PACT programmes in their area.

Our main objective is for the M-PACT programme to be available to as many children and young people as possible to help to improve their quality of life.  If you would like to find out more about delivering M-PACT in your area or attending an M-PACT programme, in Wiltshire, then please call Families Plus on: 0845 126 4130 or email us on: familiesplus@actiononaddiction.org.uk

  • You don’t need to struggle on your own… it’s given us strength to know you only have to ask for help….and there’s nothing wrong with that

    Client