Achieving Better Connections (ABC) Sessions
ABC: These are weekly sessions for 2 hours for 6 weeks and will cover the following topics, what children need to be happy and healthy, emotional resilience, understanding behaviour and family values, realistic expectations and healthy boundaries and safer communities. If you would like a snapshot of the ABC sessions, please access the links in the service section.
Following completion of the ABC sessions we have additional sessions, called Bolt Ons, that can be accessed, following a discussion with the facilitator.
Bolt On’s to these sessions are:
- Autism
- ADHD
- Violent and Aggressive Behaviour (VAB)
The Bolt On’s have been created to support parents/carers with children who have additional needs or requiring further support. The ADHD and Autism Bolt On’s focus upon understanding the diagnosis with tailored support and advice. The VAB Bolt On focuses upon understanding challenging behaviour, what increases the risk and how to de-escalate situations.
ABC Snapshots: The Snapshots provide an overview of the information from the Achieving Better Connections (ABC) sessions which are available, for free, within your local Family Hub.
The Snapshots contain a short presentation that can be read or listened to from the comfort of your own home. The Snapshots provide information around building relationships, child development, and emotional resilience and how we as parents can support our children in their journey to adulthood.
Check out our ABC Snapshots below.
What children need to grow up happy and healthy:
Looking at key factors that influence on parenting and exploring what children need to feel safe, loved and supported. It highlights the importance of play and quality time in strengthening relationships and gives a simple overview of developmental milestones and how you can support your child at specific points in their development Find out more
Emotional Resilience:
Is the ability to manage stress and still function reasonably well, to ‘bounce back’. For children’s emotional development it is important that parents and carers are able to manage their emotions. This snapshot aims to help us understand why this happens and what we can do about it. Find out more
Understanding behaviour and family values:
Exploring what do children behave the way they do, why adults behave the way they do, and how we can have different parenting styles. This snapshot will also focus on the importance of family values, where these may come from and how creating your own family values can prevent conflict with family members pulling in different directions. Find out more
Realistic expectations and healthy boundaries:
This snapshot explores why having realistic expectations of children’s behaviour is essential, introduces simple ways to encourage positive behaviour and looks at practical strategies for responding to tricky moments using fair and consistent consequences. Find out more
Safer Communities:
The focus is upon what the potential risks are to our children from birth to 11yrs plus in the community and online. This snapshot will focus upon considering what parents and carers can do, to keep children safe. Find out more
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