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These award winning courses are for you, as a parent (although grandparents like these courses too!). No-one gave you a manual about how to enjoy being a parent or how to be the best parent you can be. But there are a few things that can really make a difference. These three courses are all about you and your child. There is an antenatal course, a postnatal course and a course from toddlers to teenagers (this one is in English or in Urdu). For the antenatal course, starting to get to know your child before they are even born and for all courses, getting to grips with how important you are as a mum or a dad. To find out more about the courses, click on Learn. They are free to anyone living in Torbay, Devon, Plymouth and Cornwall. Just enter the access code TAMAR
Solihull online course – Understanding your child with additional needs
This online course is for parents with a child with additional needs. It is for parents, relatives and friends of children who may have a physical or learning disability or who may have autistic traits. In the UK, you may be within the SEND (Special educational needs and disability) system. Some parents describe their child as differently abled, or neuroatypical.
This course is in 2 sections. Level 1 lays the foundation for understanding your child. Level 2 looks at some particular aspects of parenting: sleeping and anger management, together with more about how we interact with each other. Understanding this can make it easier to work with your child’s behaviour as well as supporting their development. Once you finish Level 1 you can progress to Level 2 if you’d like to.
To access this course for free, just enter the code TAMAR.
Solihull online course – Understanding your child’s mental health and wellbeing
If you are either interested or worried about your child’s mental health and wellbeing, then this course is for you.
This course ‘Understanding your child’s mental health and wellbeing’ is unusual as it introduces you to mental health and wellbeing in Part 1…, then you leave this course and complete ‘Understanding your child’ …and then come back to Part 2 of this course.
If you have already completed ‘Understanding your child’ then you don’t need to do it again (unless you want a refresh or to look at it from a different angle).
Enter the code TAMAR to access it for free.
Solihull online course – Understanding your child
An Online course for parents of children aged 6 months to 18 years. The first online course for parents to be awarded the Government’s CANparent Quality Mark. Developed by the Solihull Approach team; health professionals working together with parents and practitioners.
For curious parents, for Dads who want to be the best Dads they can be, for Mums who want to be the best Mums they can be. Over 90% of parents think that a parenting course would be useful.
The course can be done at a time and place to suit family life, just enter the code TAMAR, fill in a few details to create an account. You can then sign in to your course.
Down-to-earth parenting advice you can trust. We’re on hand to support parents, when you need us. Browse our articles on the most common parenting questions from our experts. Or talk one-to-one with a qualified parenting coach about anything that’s worrying you. It’s all free, and no topic is too big, small, or embarrassing.
Culture Reframed Parent Programme
Culture Reframed understands how daunting it can be to raise kids in a culture where they are bombarded with sexual images, including porn. That’s why they have created a Parents Program — a complete, best-practice toolkit — that will give you the skills and knowledge you need to raise porn-resilient kids.
IN THIS FREE PARENTS PROGRAM, YOU WILL LEARN:
- The harmful effects of hypersexualized media and porn.
- How to teach healthy sexuality and strengthen resilience to porn culture.
- How the use of porn affects the brain and can lead to habituation and addiction.
- How to support and guide your adolescent every step of the way.
Access the free Parents Program now at parents.culturereframed.org
The Torbay Community Helpline is a one-stop-shop for access to advice, information and referral to a whole range of support in the community and beyond.
Call or use the online form to ask for help or signposting about anything, including:
- Benefits, debt, and finance
- Housing issues
- Activities and groups in your area
- Mental and physical wellbeing
- Caring for someone
- Accessing training and skills
- Domestic abuse
- Volunteering
Visit this website to find out how parents can start the mental health conversation with their kids: Unicef: What’s on your mind?
Family Support for those with a child under five years
A one to one support service that responds to the individual needs of the family; the child is at the centre of all activities/interventions.
Some of the activities we can help with are:
- Daily routines and family organisation.
- Budgeting and healthy eating.
- Support in accessing appropriate services or universal activities.
- Support parents to complete forms and applications.
- Positive behaviour management strategies.
- Establishing positive and secure relationships.
- Understanding children’s social, emotional and developmental needs.
- Developing supportive family and social networks.
- To raise aspirations and contributions into the community.
- Attendance at child in need, child protection and core group meetings supporting the needs of the child.
This is a targeted service and we only take referrals from the Early Help Panel.
Incredible Years Parenting Course
For parents of younger children, the course can give you the tools to use play, praise and rewards to bring out the best in your child as well as giving you the you the confidence to deal with difficult behaviour without losing your cool.
This is a 15 week course and is only available via a referral.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust – 0 to 19 Torbay – Starting and moving school
Information you and your children may want to know before they start or move schools including; preparation and advice; health screening programmes; and local and national guidance.
What is the DadPad?
It’s the essential guide for new dads, developed with the NHS.
Why do you need it?
As a new dad you will feel excited, but you may also feel left out, unsure or overwhelmed. The DadPad can help by giving you the knowledge and practical skills that you need. The resource will support you and your partner to give your baby the best possible start in life.
Dads Matter UK is here to provide support for dads worried about or suffering from Depression, Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
The Torbay Community Helpline is a one-stop-shop for access to advice, information and referral to a whole range of support in the community and beyond.
Call or use the online form to ask for help or signposting about anything, including:
- Benefits, debt, and finance
- Housing issues
- Activities and groups in your area
- Mental and physical wellbeing
- Caring for someone
- Accessing training and skills
- Domestic abuse
- Volunteering