Groundwork Thames Valley

Key Facts

Location

Slough

Project Criteria

Parenting support

Contact

Rachel Axtell
Email

Project funding

£112,896

Funding round

Round 2

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Groundwork Thames Valley is an independent charity, committed to social, economic and environmental regeneration and sustainable development. The Parenting Fund grant is to support work with parents to provide collaborative initiatives for families facing challenges in the Slough area through:

• Training (8 Parent/Professional Parenting Champions). To provide OCN accredited parenting qualification and roll out to 10 Parent workers. Among them will be Somalian, Pakistani and Polish champions who can also help improve improving social inclusion in Slough for hard to reach groups. This training will conform to the new parenting occupational standards produced by Parenting UK.
• Create a Parent Support Group to support parents who are struggling with their children, including ADHD
• Provide a Parent drop in centre (100 Parents). Networking and signposting service, special attention to community development and parent empowerment.
• Provide Parenting Intervention Programs where required