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YFSS Parenting Programmes, Women’s DV Groups and Children’s Therapy Groups

Summer Term 2017

For further information re parenting groups email or call on

020 8359 2196 / 07984 018 546 and for further information re DV groups and the children’s therapy group email or call 020 8359 7473

Venue / Course / Dates/ Crèche / Outline of Programme
New Barnet Community Centre,
48 Victoria Road,
EV4 9PF / Family Links
For parents of children under 12 years
10 weeks
/ Wednesdays
10 May –July 19 2017
9.30 – 12.00
Crèche available / This course helps parents/carers reflect on the experience they had as a child, of being parented and how this affects their parenting now. The focus is on looking after self and understanding their own and their child’s emotional needs, to help build good communication within the family.
Areas covered:
·  Praise
·  rewards and penalties
·  family rules
·  discipline
·  choices and consequences
·  understanding and managing feelings
·  nurturing yourself
·  child development
·  problem solving
·  negotiation.
Finchley Youth
Centre,
142 High Road, East Finchley, / Triple P Teen
For parents of teens
6 weeks
(incl. 1 week individual telephone support) / Wednesdays
June 7 – July 12
2017
10.30 – 1.00 / This course focuses on managing behaviour and enabling young people to learn new skills that will teach in- dependence and self-discipline. The course provides you with a range of tools to teach and guide your children enabling them to make positive changes in behaviour and attitude.
Trinity Church,
The Broadway,
Mill Hill,
NW7 2AE / Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC)
For parents of teens
12 weeks / Tuesdays
25 April – Tuesday 18 July 2017
9.30 – 12.30 / This programme assists parents/carers to reflect on and support their children to develop strong family, cultural, ethnic and spiritual roots, a positive parent-child relationship and the life skills necessary for functioning in today’s society. Anger management and positive discipline approaches are integrated to enhance parents’ ability to model and teach as a vehicle for fostering high self-esteem, self-discipline and social competence.
Hyde Children’s Centre,
Hyde Crescent,
Hendon NW9 7EY / Women’s Support Group
For women affected by DV
(with a child aged 11 or under)
12 weeks / Thursdays
Begins 27th April 2017 for 12 weeks
12.00 – 2.00
Creche available / It is preferable that women referred are separated from the perpetrator. Must have a child of 11 years or under in the family.
Parenting course-promotes safer relationships, raise self-esteem, increase understanding of conflict and children’s needs. Covers the different forms of abuse – e.g. emotional, psychological; safety planning; the dynamics of why women stay; loss and grieving; self-esteem work; the effects of DV on children, the different feelings children experience and how to support them with this e.g. managing anger. Parenting techniques are covered in the context of when children have lived with abuse.
Newstead Children’s Centre,
1 Fallows Close,
East Finchley,
N2 8LG / Women’s Support Group
For women affected by DV (with a child aged 11 or under)
8 weeks / Thursdays
27th April 2017 for 8 weeks
10.00-12.00
Creche available / It is preferable that women referred are separated from the perpetrator. Must have a child of 11 years or under in the family.
Parenting course-promotes safer relationships, raise self-esteem, increase understanding of conflict and children’s needs. Covers the different forms of abuse – e.g. emotional, psychological; safety planning; the dynamics of why women stay; loss and grieving; self-esteem work; the effects of DV on children, the different feelings children experience and how to support them with this e.g. managing anger. Parenting techniques are covered in the context of when children have lived with abuse.
Hyde Children’s Centre,
Hyde Crescent,
Hendon NW9 7EY / Childrens Play Therapy Group
For children aged 4-6yrs
affected by DV
12 weeks / Thursdays
4-5.30pm
27th April 2017 / The Play Therapy group is an 11 week therapeutic programme for children aged 4-6 years old who are, or have been, affected by Domestic Violence. This programme allows children to tell their story in a safe and supportive environment with other children who have had similar experiences. It helps to improve the child’s confidence and self-esteem and build resilience.
Stevens House & Gardens
17 East End Road
N3 3QE / Childrens Play Therapy Group
For children aged 7-10yrs
affected by DV
11 weeks / Tuesdays
April 25th 2017
4.00 – 5.30 / The Play Therapy group is an 11 week therapeutic programme for children aged 7-10 years old who are, or have been, affected by Domestic Violence. This programme allows children to tell their story in a safe and supportive environment with other children who have had similar experiences. It helps to improve the child’s confidence and self-esteem and build resilience.

No groups run during Half-Term

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