Helping You Help Them - Understanding Addiction

This group is for people who live with, care for, love or know someone who has an addiction. The group is not for those with the addiction but those who help a person with an addiction. The group will run for 6 consecutive weeks every Wednesday from 7 October, 6pm-8pm in Step Thru Care offices in Moorabool Street, Geelong.

Each weekly session is stand-alone ie if you miss 1 or 2 it wouldn't matter as the information in the other sessions will still be very helpful.

Mark and Donna (Step Thru Care facilitators) will cover how the addictive brain works, how trauma affects addiction, your self-care and what you can do when things get tough, external resources, harm minimisation and more. 

The group is more about education than a support group however there are opportunities for you to discuss things but only if you choose - you are not required to talk about your own situation if you don't want to.