Parent Support Programmes

Adverse Childhood Experiences ACEs - what are they and how can we reduce the impact on ourselves and families?

Some twenty years ago an American doctor started some research into how difficulties when growing up would affect long term outcomes and the results have been shocking.

The ACEs study's results show that these issues in childhood contribute to health problems decades later. These include chronic diseases—such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes—that are the most common causes of death and disability. It also shows a major impact on risk taking behaviours and other social issues.

The ACEs Recovery toolkit is a 10-week course that provides an understanding of living with ACEs, and what we can do to reduce the impact it has on us and our families.

Bright Futures - what are they and how can we reduce the impact on ourselves and families?

Overcoming the impact ofdomestic abuse
andunderstanding toxic stress isessential to our ability to moveforward towards goals andaspirations, for ourselves and ourfamilies.

Finding ways to leave behind thenagative views about ourselves,build our self esteem and createbright futures requires use tounderstand and use strategies,tools and techniques to cope andbuild resilience.

The Bright Futures programmeuses strength based approachproviding opportunity for choice,collaboration and connection to support participants on theirrecovery journey.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understanding the dynamicsof domestic abuseviolence/coercive control
2. Understanding copingstrategies as resilience building
3. Identifying and deleting ourinternalised negative voice
4. Understanding emotional regulation and stress
5. Developing skills to recovery, self-esteem confidence and healthy lifestyle

Improve your understanding of Mental Health and gain the skills to develop family well-being and resilience

Youth Connect 5 is a training course that gives parents and carers the knowledge, skills and understanding to help their children develop strong emotional well-being through resilience-building techniques. We are delivering courses in London and on the Wirral.

As parents, we develop our own approaches to nurturing, caring for and developing our children as they grow from babies through to young adults. But sometimes situations arise in life – either at home or at school – that may bring some challenges for you and your child to deal with.
Being able to deal with these challenges, and helping your child manage life when it gets tough will make them stronger and improve their chances of being able to bounce back when things are stacked against them.
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, but Youth Connect 5 will teach you the skills you can then draw upon to both build your own resilience, but most importantly your child’s.
Facilitated by Merseyside Youth Association with funding by CHAMPS, the Public Health Collaborative in Cheshire and Merseyside through Health Education England.

For more information about Youth Connect 5 or to register your interest, please get in touch.

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is an inclusive evidence-based parent training programme, designed to promote protective factors which are associated with positive outcomes for parents/carers, children and the wider community. SFSC offers parents and carers wanting guidance, the support and information on helping promote the well-being and resilience of their children and young people, along with positive practical strategies and techniques.

SFSC has enjoyed success with parents from all backgrounds, including mainstream, black and minority ethnic parents, teenaged parents, parents with learning disabilities, as well as parents from marginalised communities, including those with experience of drugs, alcohol or violence.

For more information about Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities programme or to register your interest, please get in touch.

Meerkat & Me

Meerkat & Me is a family programme that allows parents/carers and children to understand the basics of brain function, seperating the stress responses and behaviours from the individual. Families explore stressors, coping strategies, grounding techniques and the development of wellbeing and resilience.