Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Joint Committee On Health

Addiction Services: Discussion

Ms Gwen McKenna:

I just got the statistics from January until May. We have five peer support groups that are co-facilitated by two trained facilitators. Of those groups, 87 have been run and 632 people attended. We have nine counsellors, with two more starting on Monday. We have the 5-step model and so far 15 people have been doing that. We have six 5-step practitioners, three of whom are awaiting accreditation, with three already trained and accredited. We have one trainer who can train them and one waiting to do the training. We have two new facilitators waiting to take on facilitation skills. There is a monthly support and supervision. We run a residential health and well-being workshop for families over a weekend. That has a massive effect on the families.

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