The Healthy Parent Carer Programme is a national course which you can find out more about HERE.
2 members of our steering group Louise and Pearl were trained to facilitate the programme and are parent carers themselves.
As of June 2024, we are looking to recruit 2 further parent carer volunteers to this project. If this is something which interests you and you can offer 2-4 hours a week of your time, please complete our online expression of interest form.
In September of 2023, the forum delivered the FREE 12 week Healthy Parent Carer programme to 4 local parents and carers of children with SEND.
Each session was 2 hours long and were held virtually.
The programme is designed to improve parent carers’ health and wellbeing by promoting empowerment, confidence, and resilience.
Parents and carers often prioritise the health and wellbeing of their children over their own physical and emotional needs which may have negative consequences on their wellbeing and impacting on their children and families.
Some of the sessions covered:
Sleeping
Exercise
- Keeping Healthy
Eating
- Managing Stress
On the odd occasion, a parent was unable to attend a specific session, Louise sent them a detailed email of the session so they didn’t miss out.
Everyone who completed the course received a certificate.
Parent feedback from the 2023 course included:
“Engaging in the Healthy Parent Carer programme has been loads of fun! The content was rich, the facilitators were knowledgeable, and the sessions were interactive. My experiences were validated and I have genuinely felt more relaxed since”.
“It was a great course; tbh I did worry that it would be a bit preachy and pointless. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. A big thanks to you and the team for taking the time to consider parent-carers and for designing a space for us to take time to think about ourselves. I didn’t honestly think anyone outside of *what we do* even considered us for a moment. So it’s much appreciated.”
“Everyone who can should attend, I really enjoyed it”.
2024 PROGRAMME
Parent Carers Together will be offering our next Healthy Parent Carer Programme after the summer. The programme has been adapted since we delivered the initial programme in 2023.
This will now be offered as a FREE 6 week programme delivered over 3 hour sessions. The programme will be open to all BCP parents and carers with children and young people with SEND (with or without formal diagnosis) to help prioritise their health and well being.
All materials and resources will be provided.
We are no longer taking bookings for the 2024 programme but if you want to know when you can express an interest in our 2025 programme, please make sure you are signed up to our emails!