Parenting Support

These are some of the groups and courses for parents and carers in Newcastle. If you read about a course that sounds right for you, please contact your nearest family hub or email your locality using the links below. The team can give you more information, and let you know about start dates. 

Email North   Including Fawdon, Kenton, Gosforth 

   Email East   Including Byker, Walker, Walkergate, Heaton

Email Inner West   Including Elswick, Benwell, Fenham, Blakelaw

Email Outer West   Including Denton, Lemington, Newbiggin Hall

Incredible Years

Support and guidance about behaviour and routines. There are 5 different courses lasting between 8 to 14 weeks. 


• Autism and speech delay course (for parents and carers of 2 to 5 year olds)
• Babies (for parents and carers of unborn babies to 6 months old)
• Toddlers (for parents and carers of 1 to 3 year olds)
• Basic (for parents and carers of 3 to 6 year olds)
• School age (for parents and carers of 6 to 12 year olds)

Solihull: Understanding your baby

A group for all parents and carers welcoming a new baby. Find out more about:

• How your baby’s brain develops and how you can support this.
• How you and your baby might feel and what can support you both.
• Ways to react to crying.
• How to help with healthy sleep patterns and responsive feeding.
• How play can help your baby’s development.

One session a week for 10 weeks.

Solihull: Understanding your child

A group for parents and carers of children aged 9 months to 19 years. Find out more about:

• How our brains work at different times in our lives.
• What this means for how we think and express how we feel.
• Your child’s development and behaviour.
• How your child communicates.
• Why sometimes things go well and sometimes they don’t.

One session a week for 10 weeks. 

In Our Place: Free online courses

Visit In Our Place and enter the access code NEFAMILIES to explore online courses for free. Whatever stage you are at, from pregnancy to parenting teenagers, there is something for you. If you'd rather join a group to meet other parents and carers, get in touch with your local hub to see what's happening near you. 

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HENRY Programme

For parent and carers of children under 5 years old. HENRY stands for Health, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young. HENRY could help you:

•Be a more confident parent
•Reduce stress at meals.
•Help your child eat more fruit and vegetables.
•Be more active as a family.
•Help your child have less screen time.
•Get ideas to help with routines.
•Learn realistic strategies to reduce the everyday stresses of family life

HENRY is run as a 2 hour workshops or as an 8 week programme.

Ways to Wellbeing

Workshops for parents and carers about children’s mental health and wellbeing. Topics include:

  • Brain development
  • Anxiety
  • School avoidance
  • What is mental health
  • Wellbeing and self-care

Our workshops are one hour and are held across the city. 

ROSES – Brighter Futures (Formerly DARE - Domestic Abuse Recovery and Education)

This is a whole family recovery programme. It helps parents and carers understand how abuse affects their children. It looks at support with behaviours and emotions. It's aimed at survivors and their children (aged 5 to 16) who have been exposed to domestic abuse.

It runs once a week for 8 weeks.

Strengthening Families

For families with children who are 7 – 17 years old. Learn to:

  • Build life skills for young people.
  • Build parenting skills.
  • Make family relationships stronger.

The course runs for 12 weeks.

Decider Skills

This course will help you:

• Recognise your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
• Manage your emotions and mental health.

Once a week for 6 weeks

School Anxiety

Is your child struggling to go to school because of worry or anxiety?

  • Learn about the reasons behind this
  • Share ideas
  • Meet other parents and carers in similar situations

Our support group is for parents and carers. It is one session a week for 5 weeks.

To find out more about these groups and others, either email us or click the button below to find your nearest hub and pop in for a chat.  

Find your nearest family hub

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Start for Life Parenting Support Line

Our start for life parenting support line is here for you Monday to Friday, 9am - 4.30pm. Our friendly family partners can answer lots of different parenting questions you might have from pregnancy to age two. Feeling low, struggling with sleep, trouble with tantrums? Give us a call. 

0191 2788494

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Useful contacts

Sarah Robson, Young Dads Coordinator - Barnardo’s Young People and Families Team, 

Pottery Bank Community Centre, Yelverton Crescent, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 3SW.

Tel: 0191 253 2127. Mobile: 07565 013506

Email: sarah.robson@barnardos.org.uk

 

Information from https://childrenandfamiliesnewcastle.org.uk/
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