Parenting Support - Targeted Services
Targeted services are available to those who may need a bit of extra support. For example, if you are a young parent, if you have a disabled child or if there are any other circumstances that may make you feel that you need something more than the services available to everyone. At this level you will still be able to just phone up or come along to a group or arrange to have someone come and visit you. You won’t usually have to meet any special criteria except that you feel you need some extra help.
- Behaviour Support Team
- Children's Centres
- Children with Special Needs Resource Guide
- DISC Newsletter
- Drug and Alcohol Action Team
- Early Bird and Early Bird Plus
- Early Interventions Project
- Flying Start
- Home-Start Bracknell Forest
- Konnections
- Margaret Wells-Furby Children's Resource Centre
- New Hope
- Parents and Children Together (PACT)
- Parents of Teenagers
- Parent Partnership
- Pyramid for Parents
- Youthline
Behaviour Support Team
The Behaviour Support Team, in co-ordination with other agencies, carries out work with families on an individual basis and through schools. They are also able to identify families who may benefit from more intensive parenting work such as Webster Stratton parenting courses. Thus, they operate at both a Targeted level and at Specialist level. Referrals to the Behaviour Support Team are made through your child’s school.
Children’s Centres
All Children’s Centres have Family Outreach Support Workers and a Parenting Worker attached to provide support to more vulnerable families. They deliver Share and Solihull parenting programmes and offer 1:1 parenting support to families within their own homes.
Children with Special Needs Resource Guide
This guide contains useful information on a wide range of topics for parents and carers of children and young people with special needs.The guide is produced by the Children's Information Centre in collaboration with Bracknell Forest Council.
DISC Newsletter
The Disability Information Scheme newsletter is a quarterly newsletter for parents and carers of disabled children. It is produced by the Children's Information Centre in partnership with Bracknell Forest Council.
Drug and Alcohol Action Team
This team works with fathers, mothers and young people where alcohol and substance misuse is a problem. There is also a Young People’s Substance Misuse worker based in the Youth Offending Service.
Early Bird and Early Bird Plus
The National Autistic Society Early Bird Programme is a three-month programme which combines group training sessions for parents with individual home visits when video feedback is used to help parents apply what they learn, whilst working with their child. Parents have a weekly commitment to a three-hour training session or a home visit, and to ongoing work with their child at home. Early Bird Plus is a modified programme to meet the needs of families whose child has received a later diagnosis (four-eight years) and is in Early Years or Key Stage One provision. Early Bird and Early Bird Plus is provided in Bracknell through the Margaret Wells-Furby Children’s Resource Centre. Tel: 01344 456416
Early Interventions Project
As part of its work with children and young people ages 8-13 who have been identified as at risk of offending, the team is available to give support and advice to families. Parents and young people can self refer to the project.
Flying Start
This is a project run at Brakenhale Open Learning Centre and aimed at families with children at the foundation stage. It helps parents to understand how they can support children in their early years at school.
Home-Start Bracknell Forest
Home-Start is a registered charity set up to support families with children under the age of five years who are experiencing stress. Volunteers are recruited and trained to work alongside families in their own homes, to enable and empower them to cope on their own. Volunteers spend two hours a week with a family offering practical and emotional support, and referrals can be from professional agencies or families themselves. Many of the families currently being assisted have children with disabilities. The main criterion is that the family must have one child under the age of five years. Home-Start in Bracknell is based at Coopers Hill and can be contacted on 01344 860025.
Konnections
Konnections is a project sponsored by Bracknell Family Church, supporting families in the community who have children with special needs. They serve these families irrespective of their religious background, and have a range of resources to facilitate this.
Margaret Wells-Furby Children’s Resource Centre
This NCH (National Children’s Homes) project provides a range of services for children of pre-school age who have special needs, and their families. The Centre is managed by NCH, through a partnership arrangement between NCH, the Local Authority, Bracknell Forest Primary Care Trust and Bracknell Forest Social Services (Children’s Services). Multi-disciplinary assessments are undertaken, by a combination of Health, Education and NCH staff. Other support groups include a physiotherapy group, a family support group and a children only group. Referrals to the Centre have to be made by Health, Social Services or Education professionals, with the exception of referrals to the Early Bird programme.
New Hope
New Hope is a centre for the delivery of substance misuse services in Bracknell Forest.
It provides a range of substance misuse services under one roof for men and women aged over 18 who live in Bracknell Forest. Support, information and a monthly support group is also available for parents or friends who are concerned about a young person who may be using drugs.
Parents and Children Together (PACT)
This local charity are contracted by Bracknell Forest Council to offer parenting support and advice to young parents and pregnant teenagers. They also run a Drop-In and do outreach work with families living in temporary accommodation who are considered ‘vulnerable’. There is support available here from Early Years Workers, family outreach workers and through liaison with Bracknell Family Centre.
Parents of Teenagers
This parenting programme is delivered by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, the Behaviour Support Team and the Pupil Referral Service. It is offered to parents referred through schools or other agencies.
Parent Partnership
The Bracknell Forest Parent Partnership Service provides information, advice and support for parents and carers of children with special educational needs. The impartial and confidential service can help parents and carers become more actively involved in discussions and decisions relating to their child's individual needs.
Pyramid for Parents
Pyramid for Parents group-work programme has been specially developed to enhance parents’ skills and understanding of how to support their child's emotional wellbeing. These groups provide an opportunity for parents to get together and share experiences, to support each other and to improve their relationship with their child.
A successful pilot of this has been carried out in 3 schools in Bracknell and it is now being extended to a further 10 schools.
Youthline provides information, counselling and advice to young people or parents who are experiencing difficulties with a young person over the age of 11 years.
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