to help support parents to improve their child's behaviour.

Our Incredible Years parenting programmes focuses on

strengthening parent and child interactions, nurturing

relationships, promoting positive discipline and helping

families promote social, emotional and language

development in children.

We run 3 different Incredible Years courses:

• Incredible Years basic 1-3 years

• Incredible Years basic 3-6 years

• Incredible Years ASC (Autistic Spectrum Condition)

Please take a look below for more details of each course.

Facilitators work with parents and care-givers to help them to:

• Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs.

• Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions.

• Enhance the development of their child's self esteem.

• Honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure.

relationships, designed to encourage a reflective style of parenting that leads to more sensitive and effective parenting. You are also helped to understand how you can influence your relationship with your child through play.

We focus on the parent/child relationship and aim to support

you in building positive and responsive relationships with your children.

Our sessions include…

• How do you know what you and your child are feeling?

• Tuning in to your child’s developmental needs.

• Having fun together- The importance of play.

• Self-regulation.

• Sleep and anger.

• Different styles of parenting.

• How to recover when things go wrong.

We run various different Solihull Approach courses:

• Solihull- Understanding your child (0-18 years)

• Solihull- Understanding your baby (0-9 months)

• Solihull - Understanding your child with additional needs

• Muliticultural Solihull

• Solihull for Home Educators

Please take a look below for more details of each course.

We want to see a world where mental and emotional health is understood and accepted, with safe and supportive communities for everyone to grow and flourish.

Issues covered include;

• Disappointment,

• Loss,

• Anxiety,

• Anger

• Perfectionism,

• Shame,

• Resilience.

"I like it because its real people. People who understand and are not judgemental"

"This course is positive and accepting who you are, Scars and all!"

"Prefer this course to my online anxiety course. I like face to face"

The group aims to explore the role of anxiety within a family and how it develops.

The Timid to Tiger course explores:

• Securing parent-child bonds through non-directive play.

• Understanding your child’s anxiety and managing behaviours related to this.

• Using praise to build children’s confidence and using rewards to help your child’s motivation.

• Managing worry & really difficult behaviour.

Our team works across the city to support families with children under 5 years old with their individual needs. We can offer support in many areas including:

• Families who have experienced domestic abuse

• Debt/ Benefit Advice

• Parenting tips/advice/strategies, support on managing children's behaviour, routines and boundaries

• Families experiencing social isolation

• Healthy lifestyles advice

• SEN (Special Educational Needs) support.

0785 518 4758

greenarkcc@actionforchildren.org.uk

01752 362 320

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.40-4pm

plymouthccwest@barnardos.org.uk

01752366795

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthccwest@barnardos.org.uk

01752 261 844

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthcceast@barnardos.org.uk

01752 340 550

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthcceast@barnardos.org.uk

01752 875 933

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthccnorth@barnardos.org.uk

Are you wanting to become more aware of online dangers, up to date apps, tips on how to parent a teenager, understanding their emotions & how their brain works? Then DICE is the perfect programme for you!

We can support and offer guidance for anyone who would like to know more about the risks of exploitation and how we can help to safeguard our young people.

The DICE Programme is one area of our work and is a programme of support around the following –

Session 01 – Introductions & talking about the life of a teenager

This session will cover; The Teenage Brain, Why teenagers might take risks & the pressures they are facing in the modern world.

Session 02 – The Exploitation of children & young people

This session will cover; Grooming – What it is? How does it happen? Where & by whom? How can we spot the signs? Active listening techniques, advice & guidance on these techniques, how we can approach conversations/situations, managing stress & pull factors.

Session 03 – Digital Dangers

This session will cover; Social Media, current apps & their ages/what they do/what to keep an eye on. Sexting, sending nude selfies & how we can be better digital parents/carers.

Session 04 – A safe space to share ideas about parenting

This session will cover; Parenting top tips, practical advice & information about the support available to all parents. Communicating effectively with our young people, how life is parenting a teenager, support networks, working together, importance of reaching out & sharing information.

To Book a space: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dice-parenting-programme-life-of-parenting-a-pre-teen-or-teenager-tickets-910636316737

01752 313293

admin@larkcluster.co.uk

gives families free access to Togetherness resources to support wellbeing. For parents, carers, grandparents, and young people.

Learn from NHS clinical psychologists, practitioners, and other parents. The pathways will help you and your family understand and manage emotions in everyday life.

High View School, Efford, PL3 6JQ

plymouthcccentral@barnardos.org.uk

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

Kitto Centre, Honicknowle Ln, Plymouth PL5 3NG

01752 201918

SweetPeas Children's Centre

Compton Church Hall, 2 Revel Road, Compton, PL3 5LF

07808 200 207

plymouthcccentral@barnardos.org.uk

Tothill Community Centre

119 Knighton Road, PL4 9DA

Onward House

55 Greenbank Road, PL4 8PE

Mainstone

Mainstone Social Club, Pattinson Drive, Plymouth, PL6 8RU

Church of the Holy Spirit

Clittaford Road, Southway, PL6 6EJ

Plymstock

St Mary's Church Hall, Church Road, PL9 9BP

Honicknowle Youth Centre

Honicknowle Green, PL5 3PX