Skills in child aware practice with parents who use substances

In this webinar with the Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN), our panel explores practical skills to support confident and effective child aware conversations with parents who use substances. It outlines strategies to encourage open, collaborative communication and support positive engagement.

Learning outcomes:

• Address common practice challenges encountered during child aware conversations with parents who use substances
• Outline strategies to build trust and rapport with parents while also having difficult conversations
• Explore a parent’s values, hopes and goals as a parent and how they align with their substance use in a non-shaming or blaming way

Led by Nicole Rollbusch (Practice Development Officer, Emerging Minds), the expert panel includes:

• Fiona (Child and Family partner)
• Dr Suzie Hudson (Mental health social worker and clinical advisor at the centre for alcohol and other drugs.
• Alicia Phillips (Family counsellor – Alcohol and other drugs.

In case you missed it, watch the first webinar in this series of two, Beginning child aware conversations with parents who use substances.