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The Family Support Worker has been fantastic and really put me at ease about discussing lots of topics and more, she's very professional and my apprehension of hesitation I felt before these meetings has been absolved.

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The topics raised have been reassuring and very helpful and have certainly helped to evaluate and deal with potential difficult decisions that I may live to face in the future. I feel confident that techniques and methods will certainly have a positive influence of future decisions I make, I encourage more people to take part in the exercises and to be able to reach out for help if required. I hope and try to be the very best version of myself for my family as well as myself and I sincerely believe this has contributed mostly to my self learning and journey as a role model worthy parent.  Thank you so much

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The Family Support Worker was lovely and helped our family in every way that was available to her. She was excellent in engaging with the children and making us feel heard.

We are sad to see her go.

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"I am really grateful for the opportunity to be part of the cygnet programme. the education was very helpful and has made a big difference to my family. I feel more confident and I am doing right by my parenting and supporting my daughter, understanding how she feels. Thank you"

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The digital resources provided by One-Plus-One are designed to help parents reflect on conflict in their relationship with current or ex-partners, as well as the impact on their children. The resources use videos and animations that incorporate evidence-based techniques to promote behaviour change and help parents to argue in ways that are helpful rather than harmful

There are three digital resources available for parents:

1.Me, You and Baby Too - New and expectant parents

2.Arguing better - Parents experiencing high levels of stress and couple conflict

3.Getting it Right for Children- Separating or separated parents experiencing high levels of conflict

https://www.oneplusone.org.uk/parents

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A four week course to help babies get off to a great start ❤️

In these four informal sessions you can find out about:

Bonding

'Tuning in' to babies' signals and cries

Communication and play

Emotional health and wellbeing of parent

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Time to look after you first! A six week programme, working together to explore:

Self management and making the right choices

Positive thinking and mindfulness techniques

Benefits of routines and developing good habits

Stress busting

Communication techniques

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A parenting support programme for parents and carers of children aged 5 – 18 years old who are on the neurodevelopmental pathway and parent / carers who have children with a diagnosis of autism.

Parents with autistic children face the usual positive and difficult challenges of parenting and quite a few more. Attending Cygnet gives parents and carers opportunity to develop their understanding of autism and look at practical strategies to support their child. It also provides the opportunity to meet other people in a similar position and hear about their experiences.

Cygnet is a 7-week programme consisting of:

Introduction

An overview

Sensory issues

Communication

Understanding behaviour

Supporting behaviour

Parents’ choice.

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The NVR course aims to offer a series of tools and techniques to support parents and carers of children / young people who display challenging attitudes and behaviours, including that of controlling behaviour.

Parents / carers are guided through a set of core principles based on the idea of carefully planned actions to help support the management of challenging behaviour. As parents gain greater confidence and self-control this enables difficult issues to be addressed in an effective manner through a process of increasing parental presence. As parental presence grows, so does the rebuilding of the loving parent-child relationship.

The course takes place over 7 weeks and includes:

De escalation

Supporters

Reconciliation gestures

Baskets

Siblings

Looking after yourself

Announcement

Supporter

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The Nurturing Programme aims to help adults understand and manage feelings and behaviour and become more positive and nurturing in their relationships with children and each other. It encourages an approach to relationships that gives children and adults an emotionally healthy start for their lives and learning.

The course take place over 7 weeks and includes:

The Four constructs of giving praise

The question of discipline, time to calm down

Parenting styles and family rules

Personal power and self-esteem

Feelings and what we do with them

Kinds of touch – nurturing ourselves

Ages and stages

Keeping children safe

Behaviour to ignore

Continuing the family journey

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Our Play Therapist offers Play Therapy and Video Interaction Guidance to children and families.

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Our Play Therapist offers Play Therapy and Video Interaction Guidance to children and families.

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This QR Code will provide further information on some of the services to support Children, Young People and Families available within Bridgend

Early Help Clickable link

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We understand that our waiting lists can be long at times, however there is lots of support you can access in the meantime.

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As an early help team, your worker can remain involved for up to six months. We know it can be worrying when your support is coming to an end. Our aim is to ensure that you have the right support around you by the end of the intervention and that you feel more confident about your future as a family.

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Your worker will plan a suitable time to pop over and visit. We ask some questions to help us understand your family better, together identifying strengths and areas you would like to improve.

We will work alongside you to create a support plan and will always have ideas for actions if you are unsure.

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We will work alongside you to complete the agreed support plan with the help of other agencies, making sure we review it regularly. It is important to celebrate your progress and identify if there are any further needs along the way.

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One of our friendly members of the Early Help team will contact you once your case has been allocated! 

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One of our friendly members of the Early Help team will contact you once your case has been allocated! 

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We will contact you to arrange a home visit. During this visit, we will introduce ourselves, begin gathering information, learn more about your family, and discuss support options. If you no longer require any support, you can opt-out! Simply give us a call or send us a text.

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The Early Help Screening Team will be a point of contact following the referral, you will receive a telephone call during which the Screening Officer will listen to you and talk with you regarding your situation to help identify the best support for you and your family.

The support services can include money advice, welfare benefits, child behaviour, parental support, wellbeing and much more.

You and the Screening Officer together will decide and agree a relevant service to help promote positive change, and with your consent the relevant referrals are made.

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The Early Help Screening Team sit within MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub)

Early Help is made up of the following teams:

1 Screening/Assessment Team (integrated within MASH)

3 Hub Teams

The Screening Team work alongside Schools, Police, Health, Social Services and individuals to ensure that you access the right support, from the right service at the right time

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Early help will be able to offer support around the following:

Parenting

Mental health & emotional wellbeing

Managing challenging behaviour (0-25yrs)

Domestic violence

Benefits / debt management

Disability support

Employment

Support for young carers

Play Therapy

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Early Help is an early intervention service made up of three locality teams based in the East, North and West of Bridgend. The teams are made up of Family Support Workers, Flying Start Family Support Workers, Wellbeing Workers and one Play Therapist.

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‘I feel like I am in a much better position and understand a lot more about dealing with my children and myself, taking the steps that have been shown to me and just communicate better with everything. We as a family are really going to miss Jenny and all the help and support, she has given us.’

‘I feel like the support I’ve been given has been a huge help. It has helped me and John especially’