Family Welfare Association (Nottingham City)
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Claire Hicks
Email
Project funding
£125,141
Funding round
Continuation of Volunteers for Parents Voices (VPV) project, empowering parents of disabled children by linking them with trained volunteers to negotiate services.
We are developing VPV by:
- Recruiting an Asian family support worker to raise the profile of volunteering among Asian families
- Help to organise regional conference for professionals sharing good practice when working with Asian families with disabled children
- Organise a conference for Asian parents delivered in Punjabi/Urdu
- Creating opportunities for fathers of disabled children to share experiences and coping strategies about parenting disabled children and children with special needs
- Setting up a monthly support group for up to 15 families where children have challenging behaviour (there will be high quality play sessions alongside group work for parents)
- Providing a counselling service for parents of disabled children by allowing them to explore issues relating to being a parent of a disabled child