Triple P - Parenting Class
Triple P parenting course for parents/carers of teenangers who want to feel less stressed, learn some different parenting strategies, meet other parents of teenagers, share the strategies that work for them, know where to seek help.
The focus is on helping parents improve their relationships with their children, set boundaries and help with how to deal with difficult behaviour and feelings.
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities - Parenting Class
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC), is a community based programme. It is strengths based, aiming to help families develop or promote strong cultural roots; positive parent-child relationships; a range of life skills; self esteem; self discipline and social competence; and an ability to access community resources. SFSC aims to:
· Provide parents with information to empower them
· Develop anger management and positive discipline techniques
· Provide a cultural framework to validate the historical and family experience of different ethnic groups
This programme is for parents of secondary school aged children
Moving Parents and Children Together M-PACT
The Moving Parents and Children Together M-PACT programme aims to help the whole family reduce the harmful impact that parental substance misuse and addiction can have on everyone’s lives. It aims to develop positive coping strategies, improve family communication, identify and build on personal and family strengths, to have fun, to raise self esteem and to increase resilience and improve safety.
The programme is a brief intervention that consists of 8 consecutive weekly meetings, each lasting 2.5 hours during which time parents and children from different families attend together.
There are other parenting courses that are run across North Somerset and details of these can be found on the Family Information Service Directory.