Help available for carers of children with additional needs living in the Richmond area. Apply now for free Families Helping Families courses
SUPPORTING SCHOOLS, STRENGTHENING FAMILIES, ENABLING CHANGE.
The primary purpose of our company is to advance the education and promote the wellbeing of children and other members of families who are often labelled ‘hard to reach’. We work in schools and childcare settings, usually in areas of high deprivation – and we deliver long lasting change by providing insights into the problems our families are dealing with and by giving them the confidence that they need to face up to their challenges.
In fact, the problems facing ‘hard to reach’ families are no different in nature from the problems everyone else faces. Grief, hardship and emotional pain are common to all of us. It is in degree that differences can be recognised: degrees of intensity, complexity, and frequency.
Because of this greater intensity, the reflective space required to process complex emotional difficulties is rarely available locally to families living in areas of high deprivation. Recognising this, we create a safe, nurturing environment and offer opportunities to reflect, to sort out, to reduce reactivity and to clear space for rational choice. As a result, parents become a resource to their children – who then find space to learn. Behaviour improves, school attendance rises and children are happier. In enabling communities to develop among families who are often isolated, our work also opens parents as a resource to each other and their relationship with the school improves. Everyone benefits.
Our proven services take a holistic approach involving children, parents, school staff and fully qualified, experienced therapists. Together, we identify and break through cycles which may have been repeated from generation to generation.
