Families in Focus, a Hertfordshire-based community interest company, which provides training information and therapeutic and emotional support to parents, are running a FREE 6 Week 'Handling anger in the family' (with primary aged children) on-line course for parents living in Hertfordshire.  The course is held via ZOOM (free downloadable app)

This CANparent quality mark course is for parents of primary aged children, and provides practical and proven techniques to reduce angry meltdowns in your family. The very popular, effective and award winning course offers:

• Gain greater understanding of how anger and other emotions live in your family
• Increase your understanding of triggers that cause angry outbursts
• Learn healthy anger management strategies for children & parents to reduce angry outbursts
• Discover creative ways to support children to ‘let go’ of anger safely
• Gain effective empathic communication techniques to reduce angry outbursts
• Meet and share experiences with other parents living in a similar family to your own
• How to raise confident & resilient children
• Helpful handouts each week

The course will run Monday evenings - 6.30-8.30pm - April 15th, 22nd, 29th and May 13th and 20th

Parents need to attend all sessions and live in Hertfordshire

To book your place email: bookings@familiesinfocus.co.uk

https://www.familiesinfocus.co.uk/current-parent-courses/

ADD-vance (The ADHD and Autism Trust) are running some really helpful on-line workshops after the half term break:

26th February - Supporting Emotional Development

4th March - Encouraging Positive Behaviour

13th March - Managing Anxiety 

For more details, and how to book your place, click here and scroll down to FREE On-line Workshops for Parents and Carers and click on the 'spring 2024 workshop poster' hyperlink.

Children's mental health week 5th-11th February 

This year's theme is:

"Our voice matters" 

At Fairlands, we weill be discussing why it is important that we share our views, opinions and needs with others and how we can support those that share with us. 

We will be thinking about positive things we share with our voices; things we are proud of and grateful for. 

Why not use the link below and click 'Take part at home' to access some wonderful resources that can support you in sharing your voices at home.

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/

The supporting families leaflet can also be accessed via the attachment on this blog post. 

Supporting Links are running 6, weekly on-line sessions for parents/carers of children aged 0-12 sharing tips on how to:

Manage challenging behaviour with consistency

Encourage positive behaviour

Build your child's self esteem

Set and maintain boundaries

Respond to tantrums and difficult feelings in children

Develop a strong parent/child relationship now and for the future.

See attached flier for details of how to book.

Welcome back and a happy new year to you all!

We are very excited to announce that we have visitors from both Add-vance and HPCI attending our coffee session on Friday 19th January 9am-10am on the lower site. Add-vance are a charity who provide fantastic support for families of children with or on the pathway to a diagnosis of Autism or ADHD. Their aim is to improve the wellbeing and reduce social isolation of young people and their families and we know that both visitors will be able to provide some super advice and be able to answer questions. 

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Children's Wellbing Practitioner Workshops, which are delivered online via Microsoft Teams, are open to all young people and parents/carers of children and young people who attend a school or who are registered to a GP in hertfordshire.  See attached flier for more details.

NESSie (Positive Mental Health) are offering FREE webinairs next term to help parents support their children/young person on the following subjects:

• Avoiding School
• Anxiety
• Struggling to Attend School
• LGBTQ+ or Gender Questionning
• Bereavement and Loss
• Self-Harming behaviours

See attached flier for more details and how to book.

The NHS are running a FREE one day course on mental health first aid training for parents and carers of children between 8 and 18 years old. It is on 30th January 930am-4pm and is taking place at Robertson House on Gunnelswood Road in Stevenage. 

Take a look at the attached pdf to find out more about the course structure and let us know if you attend. It'd be great to get people who attend to share their thoughts at a future coffee session. The content looks great and so useful! 

You will learn an understanding of common mental health issues and how they affect young people; ability to spot signs and guide to a place of support; knowledge and confidence to advocate for mental health awareness; and skills to support positive wellbeing.

Join us for our final coffee session of the term this Friday, 8th December. It's on the lower site in the family room from 9am-10am. There'll be some Christmas treats and friendly faces to share concerns with. Look forward to seeing you there.