Family Welfare Association (Peterborough - POTS)
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Chris Akrill
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Project funding
£85,000
Funding round
We are using our Parenting Fund Grant to continue and expand our Parents of Teenagers Support Service. POTSS is working closely with the Ormiston Trust service to provide an Emotional Wellbeing program for young people.
Our aims are to:
- Increase the capacity of parents and carers in Peterborough to meet the needs of their older children
- Strengthen the confidence of parents and carers to meet new challenges
- Promote support networks of parents of older children in the community
- Strengthen resilience, and improve communication skills for teenagers within the families where needed
We will do this through:
- Focused individually planned support to families experiencing difficulties with teenagers
- Working with young people within the family where the need is identified
- Surgeries/drop ins/workshops at specific identified locations to increase access to support for parents on specific parenting tools such as communicating with teenagers, and negotiation
- Initial telephone support/consultation to families, and referral and liaison to other services where the need is identified
- Providing places on Relate's Living with Teenagers group - the groups will be offered at a range of different times to accommodate as many different lifestyles as possible
- Individual couple counseling or whole family counseling through Relate