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Core Funding

Objectives:

- Contributes to a share of 7 out of 35 posts, This includes the SFAD CEO, Business Support, Comms, Helpline, Policy & Research, Virtual Support (Telehealth/ Bereavement) posts and external bereavement counsellor costs - To keep driving the priority areas of work detailed in the SFAD business plan.

Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF)

Objectives:

- Manage the Family Recovery Initiative Fund, including:

o Management of current live awards and carry forward funding from Corra.

o Promoting the fund and answering enquiries

o Assisting applicants in making applications

o Convening a small panel to review applications and approve grants

o Administer payments to successful applicants

o Gather learning through an evaluation process with all successful applicants and share findings with Scottish Government.

Connecting Families Development Officer post & Communications Officer Post

Connecting Families Development Officer.

Objective: to grow families’ knowledge, skills, confidence, capacity & connections:

- To provide a programme of information, support and development to family members to facilitate access to the National Mission Funds. This includes family members who wish to establish new provision, as well as those involved in existing and emerging peer-led, grassroots and community groups and services;

- To support the relaunch and delivery of the Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF) small grants scheme for family members, to complement the new Funds;

- To provide an ongoing package of support and capacity-building development to family members to help achieve maximum impact of funding investment and promote sustainability beyond the lifetime of the Funds;

- This includes engagement with the existing Connecting Families portfolio, as well as new activities, specific to the new Funds.

Communications Assistant.

Objective: to reach more families, amplify family voices and tackle stigma:

- Supporting more family members to share their own views and experiences across SFAD communications platforms, to help normalise conversations about substance use and families, and to amplify families’ voice;

- Ensuring SFAD Communications output helps tackle the stigma experienced by family members, increases their awareness of their rights; and builds confidence to engage with support in their own right;

- Delivering an ongoing programme of media training for family members to support them to share their own views and experiences;

- Bringing new creative thinking and ideas into SFAD communications work, helping to reach more families and encourage them to engage with support;

- Raising the profile of Scottish Families services and wider family support groups and services across Scotland;

- Growing SFAD social media community, level of engagement and messaging;

- Increasing SFAD media engagement across print, broadcast and online media;

- Sourcing materials and leads for new stories and materials across all of SFAD communication platforms;

- Supporting our existing campaigns, and helping to develop new campaigns to ensure families are supported, included, recognised, connected to communities and are a movement for change;

- Supporting SFAD corporate communications function across their growing portfolio of Scottish Families services, including building wider staff capacity and confidence to develop and deliver their own communications.

Whole Family Wellbeing Fund (WFWF): Grow your Own Routes

Objectives:

Objective 1: Expand support for young people affected by familial substance use by establishing young person’s support programmes which follow the Routes model in five new localities in Scotland.

- Establish a Routes National Support Team comprising 1 x manager and 1 x development officer hosted by SFAD, utilising existing expertise to support the expansion of young person’s support in Scotland.

- Ensure that the voices of lived and living experience are included in the development of the programme, paying sessional hours for their expertise and supporting young people to balance this alongside their other commitments such as school, college and employment.

- Identify at least 5 localities within Scotland to be ‘early adopter’ sites and a high quality, trusted third sector delivery partner to deliver a programme of young person’s support following the Routes model.

- Provide up to three years funding to delivery partners to establish their programme, covering staffing costs (to be comprised of least 1 x senior, 1 x officer and 1 x assistant) and all operational/engagement costs.

- Support localities and partners extensively to establish their programme by sharing the Routes practice model, support implementation, support a co-production approach with young people and assure integrity of the Routes model.

- Support delivery partners to secure sustainable funding for the programme on an ongoing basis to ensure the programme continues beyond the provided three years of funding.

Objective 2: Assure delivery of the Project/Programme by agreeing key milestones for delivery and monitor and evaluate the impact of the programme on the young people it supports.

Objective 3: Expand the evidence base for the Routes model, using evaluation data and learning from implementing the programme. Promote the Routes model throughout Scotland using this evidence base.

- Create and support a peer network comprising the ‘early adopter’ sites to share learning, challenges and best practice. Capture learning and best practice for the Routes evidence base.

- Analyse evaluation data to expand the evidence base for the Routes model.

- Capture learning from young people and their families involved in the programme to include in the evidence base.

- Actively promote the Routes model throughout Scotland with a view to localities adopting the model using independent funding.

Reprint of Bereavement Booklets

Objectives:

- Print 20,000 bereavement booklets

- Provide 10,000 bereavement booklets to the Scottish Ambulance Service

Click & Deliver Naloxone

Objectives:

- Distribution of Naloxone in either Prenoxad injection (age 16) or Nyxoid nasal spray (age 14) across Scotland to anybody who wants a kit.

- Training can be accessed via SDF E-learning or via the Scottish Families helpline team via phone or video call.

- Kits are posted by 5pm each day.

Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities (CYPFEI & ALEC) third sector fund

Objectives:

- Core funding to Scottish Families affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD) to support delivery of its services in financial year 2022-23. Core funding differs from project funding in that it includes infrastructure investment to support the costs for running the organisation / achieving core aims including support for networks / members; support costs; staff salaries; utilities; office rent; associated rates; IT; office equipment; income generation; and governance activities.