Courses for parents with 11 to 19 year olds

Advice and support

Young Minds:  Supporting parents and carers 

Young Minds offer support to young people that meets them where they are, as quickly as possible. 

Whether you need a reassuring conversation, specialist mental health support, or simply the knowledge that you are not alone in how you are feeling. 

Parenting Smart (Place2Be) 

Parenting Smart help parents with typical situations they can find themselves in with their children. Advice can be found on over 40 topics including: 

• understanding sibling rivalry  
• my child is lying, what does it mean, what should I do? 
• my child has trouble going to sleep 
• my child says: ‘I hate you!’ 
• cultural identity: who am I? 

Parent Talk: Support for parents (aged 0 to 19) 

Parent Talk website offers articles and support on various parenting issues. There is online 1 to 1 text support Monday to Friday (no bank holidays). 

Email: parenttalk@actionforchildren.org.uk for more information. 

Courses

Family Links (ages 11 to 18)

This 10-week parenting course helps parents reflect on the experience they had as a child, of being parented and how this affects their parenting now. The focus is on looking after self and understanding their own and their child’s emotional needs, and to help build good communication within the family. Areas covered: praise, rewards and penalties, family rules, discipline, behaviour management, choices and consequences, understanding and managing feelings, nurturing ourselves, child development, problem solving and negotiation.

To access these groups, you can complete a Universal Plus referral form

For further information please contact your local Early Help Hub

• East/Central Hub telephone 020 8359 3460
• West Hub telephone 020 8359 3510
• South Hub telephone 020 8359 3590

Solihull Approach: Understanding your child (0 to 19) 

This is a universal parenting intervention that aims to improve emotional health and wellbeing by supporting family relationships.  It helps parents to recognise emotions in themselves and in their children, helping parents to understand how emotions can affect behaviour. Parents identify personal goals and the strategies that will help them meet and reflect on their child’s behaviour and their relationship with their child. 

For further information please contact your local Early Help Hub 

• East/Central Hub telephone 020 8359 3460
• West Hub telephone 020 8359 3510
• South Hub telephone 020 8359 3590

To access these groups, you can also complete a Universal Plus referral form 

Belifted mother and daughter group (aged 7 to 16) 

Belifted is a mother and daughter group held at Saracens high school providing help on many subjects including:  

• healthy relationships and spotting unhealthy relationships 
• nutrition and fitness 
• spotting domestic violence and abuse 

Resilience tutoring for parents 

Resilience tutoring for parents is a course that offers a comprehensive ‘instruction manual’ which explains how we work as humans and as parents. 

This course explains why we think, feel and behave the way we do. It also reveals where we can find more wellbeing and resilience for ourselves and our families. 

Suitable for parents of all ages, with children of all ages. 

Parent can refer themselves or be referred by Children’s Social care. 

This course is an online self-study programme lasting approximately 10 hours. 

Cost £120 per parent but we can work help to enable some parents to sign up free of charge, or very low cost. 

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) (teens)

This 12-week parenting programme assists parents/carers to reflect on and support their children to develop strong ethnic, cultural, family and spiritual roots, a positive parent-child relationship, and the life skills necessary for functioning in today’s society. Anger management and positive discipline approaches are integrated to enhance parents’ ability to model and teach as a vehicle for fostering high self-esteem, self-discipline and social competence.

To access these groups, you can complete a Universal Plus referral form

For further information please contact your local Early Help Hub

• East/Central Hub telephone 020 8359 3460
• West Hub telephone 020 8359 3510
• South Hub telephone 020 8359 3590

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) - Reducing Parental conflict

• Would you like to reduce the arguments and disagreements in your family and cope better with stress?
• Would you like to enhance your relationship with your current partner, or improve communication with your ex or the other people helping to raise your children?

These online and in-person courses to develop better family relationship and reduce parental conflict are based on the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities approach and draw on years of expertise of working with parents.

SFSC have two online courses available, one exploring relationship where you live in the same house as a co-parent (that could be two biological parents or it could include another key adult who helps bring up children like a grandparents or step parent); and a second where co-parents live apart in different homes but still share children.  These courses are free of charge currently

Enrolment Information

Triple P Teen

This 6-week parenting course focuses on managing behaviour and enabling young people to learn new skills that will teach independence and self-discipline. The course provides parents with a range of tools to teach and guide their children enabling them to make positive changes in attitude. Parents may be signed posted to partner agencies such as HomeStart for Triple P Teen group parenting course.

To access these groups, you can complete a Universal Plus referral form

For further information please contact your local Early Help Hub

• East/Central Hub telephone 020 8359 3460
• West Hub telephone 020 8359 3510
• South Hub telephone 020 8359 3590

 

Specialist support

1 2 3 Magic (aged 2 to 12)

1 2 3 magic is a behavioural management programme for children with ADHD.

Support for adopters Coram 

Coram help adoptive families and people with a special guardianship order (SGO) to find best support. 

Email:  adoptionsupportgateway@coram.org.uk for more information. 

The Adopter Hub 

The Adopter Hub is an online community of information and support for adopters, special guardians, foster carers and the professionals who work with them. 

Email: team@mgeu.theadopterhub.org for more information.

Cygnets parent or carer autism training programme (aged 6 to 19) 

Autism Advisory Team provide a 6 week training course called Cygnets. It gives parents or carers an opportunity to meet each other and share their experiences. 

The course covers: 

• an overview of autism 
• communication 
• sensory needs 
• understanding behaviour 

Barnet Mencap parenting programmes 

Barnet Mencap  provide a range of parenting programmes and workshops for parents of children who have additional needs. 

These range from specific sessions on applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Blue Badges to more general 'time to talk' sessions around topics such as ADHD. 

Sessions usually take place online using Zoom. 

Norwood Charity 

Norwood are a team of practitioners and a family of services designed specifically to support vulnerable children and families, and children with special educational needs.  They offer a range of parenting programmes, courses, and services. 

Parenting children with mental health issues 

Mind UK Parents Support Programme is an 8-week online programme run by Mind in Barnet and Enfield.  It is aimed at parents/carers whose children and young people are on the CAMHS treatment waiting list. This programme offers psychoeducational and strategies for parents whose young people experience mental health distress. 

Partnering is about you and how you can change your behaviour to help you, your child and your family make sense of this new and extraordinary time.