Parenting Support

In partnership with schools, children’s centres and the community and voluntary sector, Newham offers a range of programmes, workshops and online resources for parents to access for free. A list of all available programmes are detailed below with a short description.

Our Parenting Facilitators have a significant wealth of experience in delivering parenting groups interventions to support parents/carers in their important and critical role.

Please complete the online parenting referral form on this page. We accept both self-referrals and professional referrals.

Please ensure that you have a parent’s full consent before submitting the referral form.

For any parenting enquiries, please contact parenting@newham.gov.uk

Preparing for Parenthood/0-2 years

OnePlusOne - Me, You and Baby Too

Becoming parents can change your relationship. Tiredness and stress associated with parenthood can lead to you and your partner misunderstanding each other. This online course, available for free to parents in Newham can help you improve communication skills and manage conflict better. Me, You and Baby Too is packed with videos and animations to help couples navigate the transition to parenthood.

Click here for brochure Me, You & Baby Too

Please click here for more information.

 

Epec Baby & Us Under 1 year – 8 week programme - 2 hour sessions

The programme aims to increase parents understanding of their babies’ signals and how to follow those cues and create a routine.

The sessions explore:

  • How to feel more confident in your role as a parent by learning to manage challenges around feeding, sleep and crying.
  • Understanding your baby’s personality
  • How to communicate and respond positively with your baby’s needs
  • Build a good connection between you and your baby
  • The importance of using games, singing, using physical touch, playing and having fun with your baby
  • The value of developing a friendships with other parents
  • Strengthening relationships with your partners and the benefits of co parenting  

 

Time out for Dad’s 0-16 years 5 week 2.5 hour sessions

The programme is aimed at all dads either in a couple, a single parent, away dad or anyone that is a father figure. The programme gives fathers the opportunity to share their feelings and experiences and come up with solutions to their problems based on what works for them

  • Helps fathers feel encouraged and confident on their skills and abilities as a dad
  • Help the relationship between father and child to be better, or better than it is now
  • Teach skills to help children be more secure emotionally and help raise self esteem
  • Identify ways to affectively discipline children
  • Discuss a variety of issues that affect children and parents
  • Encourage mutual support within the group
  • Give tools to help the relationship with the child’s other parents/carer  
  • Provide fathers with support where they would like it 
  • The sessions cover: What are dads for? Dad the manager, dad the coach, dad the trainer and dad the team player
Early Years to 12 Years

Time Out Early Years Birth – 4 years 6 week programme - 2 hour sessions

The programme is intended to:

  • Increase confidence in skills and abilities for parents
  • Improve the relationship between parent/carer and child
  • Teach skills to help children be more secure emotionally and help raise self esteem
  • Identify the best ways to encourage positive behaviour
  • Discuss on a variety of issues that affect children and their parents
  • Encourage participants to give each other mutual support
  • Give tools to help relationships with children and parents/carer

 

Bedtime Routines Under 5’s - 1 x 2 hour discussion group

Parent discussion groups on commonly encountered problems when managing situations such as bedtime routines.

  • Designed to provide an outline of the positive parenting values.
  • Developing a good bedtime routines
  • Looking at different problems parents face at bedtime and some of the reasons why they happen.
  • Talks about the skills children need to get into a good bedtime routine.
  • Parents are introduced to positive parenting methods to help stop problems happening.

 

Group Triple P programme 18 months – 12 years 7 week programme 2 hour sessions

Improving parents confidence in positively parenting, learn to prevent behavioural, emotional, and developmental difficulties in children

Learn simple, practical ways by:

  • Recognising what influences children’s behaviour 
  • Setting goals for change
  • Building strong healthy relationships
  • Confidently managing your child’s behaviour
  • Preventing problems developing
  • Teaching new skills and behaviour
  • Managing misbehaviour
  • Planning ahead
  • Promoting self-control = self-organisation; self- value
  • Taking care of yourself
  • Choosing the aspects of your own and your child’s behaviour to work on

 

Triple P Seminar 18 months – 12 years 1.5 hour session

Positive Parenting is an approach to help parents in developing skills to support their children’s development, manage their behaviour and emotions in a positive and non-hurtful way.

The Seminars promote:

  • Good communication
  • Focusing on the positive
  • Planning ahead to prevent problems from happening
  • Using everyday situations and experiences to help children learn
  • Creating opportunities for children to learn and develop new skills.

 

EPEC – Standard 9-16 years- 9 week programme - 2.5 hour sessions

A parent led parenting programme that aims to strengthen parent- child bonds and relationships

Parents learn a range of positive parenting skills

  • To better understand children’s feelings
  • Value effective parent-child communication
  • Build better more resilient family relationships
  • The sessions cover
  • Being good enough
  • Play and spending time with your child/ren
  • Understanding children’s behaviour
  • Positive discipline strategies,
  • Listening and communication
  • Coping with stress.

 

Time out for Dad’s 0-16 years 5 week 2.5 hour sessions

The programme is aimed at all dads either in a couple, a single parent, away dad or anyone that is a father figure. The programme gives fathers the opportunity to share their feelings and experiences and come up with solutions to their problems based on what works for them

  • Helps fathers feel encouraged and confident on their skills and abilities as a dad
  • Help the relationship between father and child to be better, or better than it is now
  • Teach skills to help children be more secure emotionally and help raise self esteem
  • Identify ways to affectively discipline children
  • Discuss a variety of issues that affect children and parents
  • Encourage mutual support within the group
  • Give tools to help the relationship with the child’s other parents/carer  
  • Provide fathers with support where they would like it 
  • The sessions cover: What are dads for? Dad the manager, dad the coach, dad the trainer and dad the team player
Pre Tween to Teens

Time out for Dad’s 0-16 years 5 week 2.5 hour sessions

The programme is aimed at all dads either in a couple, a single parent, away dad or anyone that is a father figure. The programme gives fathers the opportunity to share their feelings and experiences and come up with solutions to their problems based on what works for them

  • Helps fathers feel encouraged and confident on their skills and abilities as a dad
  • Help the relationship between father and child to be better, or better than it is now
  • Teach skills to help children be more secure emotionally and help raise self esteem
  • Identify ways to affectively discipline children
  • Discuss a variety of issues that affect children and parents
  • Encourage mutual support within the group
  • Give tools to help the relationship with the child’s other parents/carer  
  • Provide fathers with support where they would like it 
  • The sessions cover: What are dads for? Dad the manager, dad the coach, dad the trainer and dad the team playe

 

EPEC – Standard 9-16 years- 9 week programme - 2.5 hour sessions

A parent led parenting programme that aims to strengthen parent- child bonds and relationships

Parents learn a range of positive parenting skills

  • To better understand children’s feelings
  • Value effective parent-child communication
  • Build better more resilient family relationships
  • The sessions cover
  • Being good enough
  • Play and spending time with your child/ren
  • Understanding children’s behaviour
  • Positive discipline strategies,
  • Listening and communication
  • Coping with stress.

 

Dice Programme 10-18 years 4 weeks   2.5 hour sessions

The programme supports parents to develop skills to build their knowledge to increase their confidence to meet their child’s needs during the pre –teen and teenage years of development.

The sessions have information and advice on:

  • Supporting and providing your child with a safe interesting environment
  • Discussions on the introduction and thinking about life as a teenager
  • Exploitation and the grooming process
  • Digital dangers and parenting top tips

 

Teen Triple P programme 12yrs – 16years 7 week programme 2 hour sessions

Improve your understanding, skills, and confidence as a parents in order to prevent behavioural, emotional, and developmental difficulties in adolescent’s .Learn simple, practical strategies through:

  • Looks at reasons why teenagers behaviour as they do
  • Sets goals for change
  • Getting parent to think about taking care of themselves
  • Building strong healthy relationships
  • Encouraging appropriate behaviour
  • Increasing behaviour you like
  • Teaching new skills and behaviour
  • Managing problem behaviour
  • Dealing with risky behaviour
  • Grow the parents/Carers ability to manage their behaviour and problem solve
  • Gets parents to choose the parts of their own and their child’s behaviour to work on

 

Teen Triple P Seminar – 12-15 years 1.5 hour

During adolescence some conflict is normal and some disagreements over discipline are inevitable.

Raising Competent Teenagers 12 years – 15 years

The seminar looks at ways and  ideas on how to help teenagers develop the skills they need to become capable and experienced young adults by planning for success ,including encouraging teenagers to develop self-discipline ,be good problem solvers, establish good routines ,get involved in school activities follow school rules and have supportive friends

Getting Teenagers Connected 12 years – 15 years

The seminar provides ideas on how to help teenagers become connected. By encouraging and supporting teenagers as they explore new relationships and activities. Including encouraging teenagers to be confident, be socially skilled, plan ahead, meet their communities, keep in touch and take care of others.

Raising Responsible Teenagers 12 years – 15 years 

The seminar offers ideas on how to help teenagers become responsible young adults, by encouraging teenagers to be involved in family decisions making ,be respectful and considerate, be involved in family activities , have a healthy lifestyle and be reliable and assertive.

Family Relationships

Family Transitions 0-16 years 5 week 2 hour sessions

The programme was made to focus on parents who are experiencing relationship upset following separation or divorce. The sessions considers ways to manage the changes that can happen through separation or divorce. It looks at managing emotions, managing conflict and moving on to build a new family identity using different learning tools. The programme suggests ideas on positive parenting to support your child’s development and looks at the importance of looking after yourself and managing the stresses and demands involved in separation and divorce

 

Who’s In Charge 

11-14 years 14-16 years 16-18 years 8-9 at discretion-

Nine week two hour session 

A programme for parents/carers who experience child to parent/carer violence or abuse.

The programme:

  • Examines challenging feelings of guilt reinforcing belief in the possibility of change
  • Clarifying boundaries and explores strategies for creating meaningful and practical consequences for unacceptable behaviour and with a view to reduce isolation.
  • Is Part therapeutic based/part knowledge based
  • Explores anger and how it is presented in children and parents
  • Encourages parental assertiveness and self-care
  • Reinforces progress and provides emotional support as parents attempt to become more assertive
  • Reduce the amount of violence and abusive behaviour in a family
  • Loosens deterministic thinking
  • Creates belief in possibility of change (without giving false hope or creating complacency)
  • Reduce parents feelings of depression and powerlessness

 

Early Repair 0-19 years 2 day programme

Is an early intervention programme designed for fathers?

The session is a brief awareness raising course for fathers who have been identified to be using abuse (physical and/or emotional and/or coercive control) at a level currently considered to be low risk. Parents that attend are expected to still be in a relationship or co living and must show a willingness to change behaviour.

Sessions cover:

  • Denial, minimisation and partner blame
  • Disclosure what that felt like
  • Impacts (mainly impacts on children)
  • Sore points
  • Signals
  • Time outs and basic de-escalation strategies
  • Four 4 weeks of keeping a log of sore points and use of techniques plus one 1-1 meeting Day 2 Review logs
  • More on impacts on children
  • Review sore points
  • Safety plan for future

 

 

Programmes for Parents/Carers of Children with Additional Needs

Time out 1-11 years 7 week programme 2.5 hour sessions

The programme gives parents the opportunity to:

  • Share their feelings and experiences
  • Helps parents come up with their own solutions to their problems on the basis of works for them.
  • Explores helping to build the child’s self-esteem
  • Supports the child cope with their feelings
  • Assist parents to understanding and managing behaviour
  • Advices parents on the home, school issues and the wider family
  • Additional 4 sessions available for parents of children with ASD and ADHD

 

Stepping Stones Triple P 18months – 12 years 8 week programme 2 hour sessions

A programme to support parents of children with a developmental delay such as an intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, and elevated levels of disruptive behaviour.

  • Assists parents to learn a range of parenting skills
  • Encourages child development and how to manage mild to moderate challenging behaviours.
  • Shows ways to prevent problem behaviour or how to change problem behaviour if it is happens 
  • Looks at why children behave as they do
  • Sets Goals for change
  • Improves your understanding of child development by building a good relationships
  • Encouraging Good behaviour
  • Teaching new skills and behaviour
  • Managing misbehaviour
  • Teach your child to communicate
  • Planning ahead

 

EPEC – ASD 5-18 years 10 week programme 2.5 hour sessions

Being a Parent ASD is for parents/carers with a child with autism or waiting an assessment. It is a peer led parenting programme

Includes:

  • Strengthening parent- child bonds and relationship
  • Parents learn a range of positive parenting skills
  • How to better understand children’s feelings
  • Value effective parent-child communication

Build better, more resilient family relationships

External Parenting Courses

Early Positive Approaches to Support (E-PAtS)

For families with children aged 2 to 7 years | Duration: 9 weeks

E-PAtS is comprised of 8 group sessions with up to 12 parents. Each session is 2.5 hours and focus on supporting the emotional and wellbeing needs of caregivers, helping families to access the services they need and practical strategies to support children’s development and behaviour (including sleep, communication, behaviour problems, and everyday skills).

Please contact early.notification@newham.gov.uk for more information.

SCERTS® for Parents/Carers

Training for parents/carers of children who have social communication difficulties or a diagnosis of Autism, aged from Reception to Year 11. Duration: 4 sessions, weekly.

SCERTS® is a comprehensive intervention model for children and young people with a diagnosis of Autism or related social communication needs. Supported by trainers from the Language, Communication and Interaction Service (LCIS), parents/carers will learn more about their child’s communication and emotional regulation. They will be introduced to strategies to support their child’s communication skills and their ability to stay calm, focused and engaged.

To book, please follow the link - https://forms.office.com/e/HqFmpuUges

LCIS Family Support spring 2023

Parent/Carer SCERTS spring 2023

Parent/Carer Intensive Interaction spring 2023

Speech, language and communication training courses - spring 2023

Digital and Self-Directed Programmes

Reducing Parental Conflict E-Learning Modules

For parents and carers of all ages that are experiencing ongoing conflict within their relationships

Working in partnership with OnePlusOne organisation, parents/carers will have access to three online modules that will help them to understand how to communicate better and the impact of parental conflict on the child.

The modules are:

‘Me, You and Baby Too’ – For new and expectant parents
‘Arguing Better’ – Parents experiencing high levels of stress and couple conflict
‘Getting it Right for Children’ – For separating or separated parents experiencing high level of conflict’.

 

Solihull Approach – FREE online courses for parents and carers, extended family members and young people

London Borough of Newham has partnered with the Solihull Approach to sponsor FREE online courses developed by psychologists and professionals. These courses are designed to help you understand your child’s feelings, as well as focus on your own feelings as you go through life as a family. You will also learn to understand the changes in your child’s development and how to make the most out of each relationship.

Here is a list of the free courses that you can access as a Newham resident:

  • Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby - This course is aimed at everyone around the baby - mums, dads, grandparents, friends and relations and was written by midwives and NHS professionals.
  • Understanding your baby - This is aimed at everyone around the baby to support you and the new arrival. The course was written by psychologists, psychotherapists and health visitors.
  • Understanding your child (0-9 years) - This course will help you be the best parent, grandparent or carer you can be and contains award-winning, trusted content.
  • Understanding your child with additional support needs - This course will help you be the best parent, grandparent or carer you can be and contains award-winning, trusted content.
  • Understanding your teenager's brain - Find out what happens to the brain in adolescence and how this explains some of the changes you may have noticed in their behaviour.
  • Understanding your brain (for teenagers only!)
  • And much more!!

These courses are available in a number of community languages.

The access code for each course is NEWFAM

Please click on this link to access the courses - Online Courses | Newham - Solihull Approach | Parenting (solihullapproachparenting.com)

Please click here for more information.

Other useful resources for parents / carers

The Parent Village

Parent to Parent led workshops allow you to deep dive into a particular aspect of parenting https://www.theparentvillage.org.uk/workshops

 

Young Minds

Young minds have lots of practical advice and tips on supporting children - from how to encourage your child to open up about their feelings to dealing with mental health services.

https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/

 

The Magpie Project

  • Provide a safe and fun place for mums and pre-school children suffering in temporary or insecure accommodation
  • Support families with the essentials
  • Help mums get the advice and support they need from

https://themagpieproject.org/about/

 

Fatherli 

Fatherli is a new app designed for dads to make it easier to manage all aspects of fatherhood. Members of the community include fathers-to-be, new dads, stepdads, and dads going through relationship difficulties, divorce and separation. 

From parenting tips, to connecting with other dads, to advice and support, fatherli is your go-to source for all the information and resources.

Please contact teamfatherli@gmail.com for any enquiries.

Please visit Fatherli for more information.

 

Pop-up CAMHS Newham

Pop-Up CAMHS will be led by friendly mental health clinicians at Newham CAMHS who look forward to meeting you and answering any questions you may have.

Feel free to drop by for support, help, and consultation about any mental health queries. Families and young people will be seen on a first come, first serve basis.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../online-pop-up-camhs-newham-registration-102088330946

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Last updated: 24/11/2023

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