Welcome

Option 2 is a crisis intervention service for working with families in crisis, as described in ‘Preventing Breakdown'. Option 2 was brought to the UK by Rhoda Emlyn-Jones and developed in the UK by Cardiff Social Services. Launched in 2000, it quickly won the Community Care award for child protection.
 
Option 2 use a solution focussed and goal oriented model of intervention. We work with families where there are serious child protection concerns and professionals are considering the need to remove children from the family or place them on the child protection register. We focus on exploring people’s strengths and values, using those strengths and values to help people to develop motivation and set their own achievable, measurable goals. It has proved to be a particularly successful and powerful approach to working with families who are having difficulty. Click here to read more.
 
The Option 2 projects have together created a supportive network, we communicate through our own mailing list and we meet several times a year. Click here to read more.
 
The different projects in this network use the model in a remarkable variety of different settings and with a wide variety of funding streams. In Middlesbrough Option 2 is part of a Families First Project, Norwich has Option 2 as part of the Family Assessment and Support Team, Conwy has Option 2 based in Conwy Care and Housing, whilst in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Sheffield and Newcastle, Option 2 is part of children's and adults substance misuse services. Click here for more.