British Red Cross Family Support Centre
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Project funding
£288,769
Funding round
The British Red Cross Family Support Centre was established in 1972 initially as a toy library for disabled children and their families. Since then, we have developed to meet changing needs and now provide a wide range of services for this client group.
We have been funded to extend a recognised coaching programme with parents/carers of children who are diagnosed or suspected of having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It was successfully piloted in the Leicester area.
ADHD coaching works with the whole family to enable individuals to develop systems and structures for overcoming the challenges of everyday life and making changes. This process then becomes embedded within family life.
This new service will train ADHD coaches to a recognised national standard across the East Midlands. Individual work will be delivered mainly in the family home, and followed up through local support groups. It will allow families to take charge of their lives and give them strategies and structures for the future. Effective use of the coaching model can reduce the number of young people with ADHD who may become involved in crime.
Referrals will come from parents, community paediatrics, schools, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and other family service professionals. Information about the project will be widely distributed. The project will develop links with the CAMHS steering group for Leicester/Leicestershire/Rutland, the LEA behaviour support team, and the Children's Federation in the City of Leicester. The project will raise the profile of ADHD across the East Midlands Region in the hope that future services meet the needs of this population of children and young people.