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| Early Help Hub and Families Matter Services | 02380 833535 | Families Matter, Southampton City Council, Civic Centre, Southampton, SO14 7LY | EarlyHelpHub@southampton.gov.uk | Helps puts a professional network of support around a family to help with things like their health, getting into work and improving school attendance. The support offered through the Early Help Hub is based on what each family needs and is totally voluntary, so it only takes place if the family agrees to it. The team works with the whole family, helping to identify the areas of support needed and pulling a plan together. The team contains multi-agency, skilled workers from many different services and backgrounds including: Social Workers, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Education Welfare Officers, family Engagement Workers, Youth Engagement Workers and the Youth Offending Service. You can make a self-referral for this service. The support offered by the Early Help Hub includes the successful Families Matter programme, which is Southampton’s response to the Government’s Troubled Families agenda. |
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| EPEC Empowering Parents Empowering Communities | Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities (EPEC) is a method of prevention and early intervention that helps children and families get the very best start in life. EPEC parenting courses are led by local parent facilitators who have completed accredited EPEC training and receive on-going training, supervision and support from parenting specialists based in a local EPEC Hub. Each EPEC Hub provides the expertise, organisation, ethos and oversight to ensure safe, high quality, and effective practice. EPEC parenting programmes combine the latest developmental science and theory with well-evidenced parenting strategies and methods. EPEC offers the following parenting programmes: Being a Parent, for parents of children age 2-11 years, Baby and Us, for parents of babies aged 0-1 year ,Living with Teenagers, for parent of adolescents aged 12-16 years. | ||||
| Families First Southampton | Text/phone 07427289813 | A service to support fathers to remain involved in the care of their children. Families First Southampton seek to deliver services to all fathers and men who provide care for children in collaboration with other agencies. We will also work with other organisations to establish father friendly drop-ins and support groups. | |||
| Safe Families for Children | southcoast@safefamiliesforchildren.com | The Service puts volunteers from the local community around families in crisis to enable them to stay together and reduce the number of children going into care. These volunteers become Family Friends, Host Families, and Resource Friends. | |||
| Southampton Family Trust Courses | Provide information and where possible free parenting courses. This includes Strengthening families and Emotional First Aid for Parents. Couples work and one to one support for various life stages | ||||
| Sure Start Childrens Centre’s | Sure Start offers lots of different services and activities, including: Learning through play in “come and play” and “family points” (health, help and play). Health advice from midwives, health visitors, other health professionals, family points and child health clinics within the Children’s Centre’s. Family support Information and guidance on breast feeding, health and nutrition. Smoking cessation support for families with children with additional needs. Speech and language support. Advice and support for parents including dads’ groups and young parents training courses. Other training courses offered throughout the City include parenting classes, ESOL, money management and healthy cooking amongst others. | ||||
| Incredible Babies | Contact: 02380 915480 | Looks at a range of issues around the care and support that babies require, as well as providing advice on the promotion of their physical, emotional, social and language development. It also teaches you how to observe and read your baby’s cues as well as learning ways to provide nurturing and responsive care including physical, tactile, and visual stimulation together with verbal communication. |
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| Living With Teenagers | Contact: 02380 540135 | Living with Teenagers Course is aimed at parents in Southampton who have one or more children between the ages of 11- 16 years. The course content includes: Managing risk, Family meetings, Exploring what it is like to be, a teenager today, Parental wellbeing, Listening and communication styles. Expressing and acknowledging feelings, Privilege removal, Household rules and Discipline |
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| Being A Parent | Contact: 02380 540135 | For parent/carers of children aged 2-11 years to learn practical communication skills to- enable our children to be confident, happy and co-operative. This includes: Discipline strategies, Feelings, Communication, Understanding behaviour, Valuing your children and Non-directive play – special time. |
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| NVR (Non Violent Resistance) | Contact: 02380 915480 | For parents/ carers with a child over 7 years of age who exhibits controlling or violent behaviours. This can include withdrawing from the relationship, isolating or hurting themselves as well as becoming outwardly angry and verbally and physically aggressive. The course may be especially helpful for families who have tried other parenting methods and find they need a different approach. The course will teach specific strategies using the concept of peaceful protest. |
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| Incredible Years | Contact: 02380 915480 | Incredible Years Programme aims to: Promote positive parenting, Support parent-child relationships, Increase use of positive strategies to enhance children’s positive behaviours, including play, praise and rewards. | |||
| Understanding Behaviour | Contact: 02380 915480 | The aim of this short workshop is to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment for parents to discuss & explore their children’s behavior. Understand why our children behave the way they do, helps to empower parents to understand behaviours & feel motivated to respond in a more positive way. |
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