Family Drug and Alcohol Court - Information for professionals

The same Judge, or one of a small team of FDAC Judges, will oversee the whole process and offer support and encouragement.
There are three judges for the Birmingham and Solihull FDAC, plus two support judges. The family will also receive support from the FDAC Intervention team who will coordinate the Intervention Plan.

This is a multi-disciplinary team, which includes:

• A Team Manager
• Social Workers,
• Parental Substance Misuse Specialist
• Domestic Abuse Expert
• Mental Health expert
• Family Support Workers
• Volunteer peer mentors.
• There will also be a Psychologist and Psychiatrist attached to the team.

FDAC has links to community-based services such as Health, Housing, therapeutic agencies, peer support. Parent mentors can also be provided. Parent mentors are volunteers with a history of recovering from addiction and in many cases, they have experience of care proceedings.

Increasingly Parent Mentors will be graduates of FDAC. A Parent Mentor may be present during the Court, assessment and Intervention periods to provide support, encouragement
and reassurance to the parent/s.