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Support for Parents

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Support available online

Togetherness | Solihull Approach: Nurturing emotional health and wellbeing from bump to 19+ years

Togetherness offers FREE online pathways from the antenatal period and early years with your child through to their teenage years, including specific pathways for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and emotional wellbeing and mental health. For adults, there are pathways for emotional health and relationships. There are also two pathways for teenagers to support them to understand their brain and their feelings. Learn to understand the changes in your child’s development and how to support them, whilst also strengthening your relationship.

Some of the courses are available in different languages to support everyone to access the online pathways.

Once you have signed up, you can access all of the pathways as your family grows and develops, at a time that works for you. All of the pathways are FREE to access for any parent, carer, grandparent or teen living in the Wakefield district.

Visit the website: Wakefield | Togetherness | Solihull Approach

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program

The Triple P Positive Parenting Program® gives you tips and ideas to help you bring out the best in your children, to help them be resilient, confident, and have the self-discipline to succeed. Learn how to positively manage the behaviour you don’t like and encourage more of the behaviour that will help them get along with others.

There are 4 online courses available to work through in your own time: Triple P Online (0-12 years) and Teen (under General), Fear-Less and Family Transitions.

Triple P Baby – preparing you for parenthood and your first year with your new baby, looking at positive parenting, responding to your baby, implementing routines and lots of other support.

Triple P Teen – for parents of pre-teens and teens, approx. 10-16 years.

Triple P Fear-Less – help your child or teenager learn to manage and reduce anxious feelings, now and in the future.

Triple P Family Transitions – looking at the challenges due to separation or divorce which are impacting on or complicating parenting. Support is given to you to: understand the impact of parent separation and conflict on children, maintain positive relationships, explore stress, anger and how to communicate better, as well as considering your own wellbeing and that of your child.

Find out how to access your code to get started at home: Free in Wakefield | Triple P – Positive Parenting Program | Online Parenting Programme

Wakefield Families Together Online Courses

In Wakefield, we have developed online courses for our parents and carers in the district that may not be able to make it to a Family Hub. These online courses are designed to be accessed at a time that suits you, whilst always having the option to contact your local Family Hub for additional advice or support.

Check out our Online Courses.

Programmes available at your local Family Hub

Find and contact your local Family Hub for more information on all the below programmes:

Baby and Me – Nurturing Connections

Baby and Me is for expectant and new parents to help you prepare for parenthood and the first year with your baby. This programme looks at positive parenting, responding to your baby, implementing routines and lots of other support using the Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) resources which have been tried and tested across the world.

A Parent’s Toolkit – raising confident, happy, resilient children

A Parent’s Toolkit is for parents of children aged 2-12 years and covers positive parenting, promoting children’s development, managing behaviour, family survival tips and support for you to look at ways of putting strategies into practise, using the Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme)

A Parent’s Toolkit SEND – raising children with additional needs to be confident, happy, resilient children

A Parent’s Toolkit SEND is for parents and carers of children aged 2-12 years old with an additional need, covering positive parenting, promoting children’s development, managing behaviour, family survival tips and support to look at ways of putting strategies into practice, using the Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme).

Family Transitions

Family Transitions programme looks at the challenges due to separation or divorce which are impacting on or complicating parenting. Support is given to you to: understand the impact of parent separation and conflict on children, maintain positive relationships, explore stress, anger and how to communicate better, as well as considering your own wellbeing and that of your child. We use the Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) resources.

Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC)

There are 2 EPEC courses: Being a Parent and Parent Group Leader.

Being a Parent course helps you learn practical communication skills for everyday life to help bring up confident, happy and supported children. It will provide you with positive strategies to take away to help manage your children’s behaviour and how to better understand and support your children’s feelings.

Parent Group Leader (PGL) course is training to become a PGL and provide parent-to-parent support by delivering the Being a Parent course to other parents.

Being a Parent Video

Parent Group Leader Video

HENRY (Health, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young)

Everyone wants the best for their children, but with so much conflicting advice it can be hard to know what to do for the best as a parent, especially in the early years. HENRY is for parents or carers of children aged 0-5 years old and covers 5 themes providing everything you need to help get your little one off to a great start. The 5 themes are:

  1. Parenting Confidence
  2. Physical activity for littles ones
  3. What children and families eat
  4. Family lifestyle habits
  5. Enjoying life as a family

Who’s in Charge?

Who’s in Charge is for parents and carers with children over 8 year old. This is a programme where you can learn strategies to help you change behaviours and attitudes which will produce positive behaviour in your children. The group explores anger, both in parents and children, encourages assertiveness and self-care whilst providing emotional support.