Skills and Education Programme

One of the key aspects of helping people to get off, and stay off, drugs and alcohol is giving them the skills to find employment or further education to plug the gap in their lives where drugs and alcohol used to be. As well as treating clients' drug and alcohol misuse, Phoenix Futures works to give clients skills and training which will help them rebuild their lives on leaving our programmes.

Our skills, education and employment scheme gives service users the confidence, skills and abilities that will enhance their quality of life, return to independent living and enable them to access further education, training and employment on an equal footing with the rest of the community.

Through Phoenix Futures clients can access training in numeracy, literacy, IT, employment skills, vocational skills and others.

We work in collaboration with key voluntary and education agencies, including local colleges, as well as career agencies and employers to provide high quality opportunities for our service users. We also form partnerships with outside organisations that can give advice and guidance about employment rights and opportunities and can help them understand the local job market.

In a recent study of our Scotland residents, 90% of service users who completed residential rehab and undertook this training are now in further education, training voluntary work or employment.

These are some of the areas where our clients have found work, voluntary work or training:

  • Social care/support for the elderly, youth, addiction, homelessness and disabled children
  • Sport and leisure
  • Maritime certificate
  • Construction including woodwork, welding, boat building and brick laying
  • Hospitality
  • Beauty therapy
  • Telesales
  • Alternative therapies
  • Child care including nursery nurse and after school carer
  • Princes Trust
  • Starting own business
  • Multimedia course
  • Social Science course
  • Scaffolding
  • Administration
  • Retail
  • Environmental restoration
  • Warehousing
  • Voluntary sector, residential and day programme drug and alcohol misuse work