Contents
- Understanding your Child (Solihull) – Ages 0 to 5
- Circle of Security
- Explore My World 0–1 year
- Explore My World 1–2 years
- Baby Massage
- Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally (SPACE)
- Ready, Steady... Eat - An introduction to solid food
- Ready, Steady...Grow - Antenatal and Postnatal Health & Wellbeing
- Home-Start
- WILD
- Positive Parenting Bitesize
- Getting it Right for Children - a workshop for separating or separated parents
- Arguing Better - a workshop for parents with a child of any age
Parenting programmes are workshops and/or groups that support you with some of the challenges of being a parent. Parents tell us that they learn a great deal from each other and enjoy the support that a group provides. We offer a selection of free workshops, whatever the age or needs of your child.
Understanding your Child (Solihull) – Ages 0 to 5
Join us for a free 20-hour workshop (10 weekly 2-hour sessions) for parents and carers of children aged 0 to 5 years.
This is an evidence-based workshop that covers topics such as:
- How your child develops
- Understanding how your child is feeling
- Tuning into what your child needs
- Responding to how your child is feeling
- Different styles of parenting
- Having fun together
- The rhythm of interaction
- Why is sleep important?
- Self-regulation and anger
- Communication and tuning in
- Looking back and looking forwards
This workshop is offered both face-to-face and online.To book onto a workshop, visit the Understanding Your Child Bookings page
Positive Parenting Bitesize
Positive Parenting Bitesize sessions are free workshops run by Together for Families’ team of Parenting Workers who are trained in evidence-based interventions. They are an introduction to some top tips and strategies and incorporates golden threads from our other parenting programmes.
Each session is 2 hours long and sessions are available weekly on different topics.
Please see the dates/topics below:
Sessions will run on Monday evenings from 18:00-20:00 or Friday afternoons from 12:30-14:30 on the following dates:
March 2025
| Monday 17 March | 18:00 - 20:00 | Supporting Education and School |
| Friday 21 March | 12:30 - 14:30 | Solihull Approach workshop for parents (ages 0-11) |
| Monday 24 March | 18:00 - 20:00 | Solihull Approach workshop for parents (ages 0-11) |
| Friday 28 March | 12:30 - 14:30 | Special Time with your Child |
| Monday 31 March | 18:00 - 20:00 | Supporting Healthy Relationships |
From April sessions will run on Monday evenings from 18:00-20:00 or Tuesday mornings from 09:30-11:30 on the following dates:
April 2025
| Friday 04 April | 12:30 - 14:30 | Routines and boundaries |
| Tuesday 22 April | 09:30 - 11:30 | Supporting Healthy Relationships |
| Monday 28 April | 18:00 - 20:00 | Solihull Approach workshop for parents ages (0-11) |
| Tuesday 29 April | 09:30 - 11:30 | Solihull Approach workshop for parents (ages 0-11) |
May 2025
| Tuesday 06 May | 09:30 - 11:30 | Remaining Calm |
| Monday 12 May | 18:00 - 20:00 | Supporting Healthy Relationships |
| Tuesday 13 May | 09:30 - 11:30 | Supporting Education and School |
| Monday 19 May | 18:00 - 20:00 | Technology and Safety |
| Tuesday 20 May | 09:30 - 11:30 | Sibling Rivalry and Conflict |
June 2025
| Monday 02.June | 18:00 - 20:00 | Praise and Rewards |
| Tuesday 03 June | 09:30 - 11:30 | Introduction to the Teenage Brain |
| Monday 09 June | 18:00 - 20:00 | Remaining Calm |
| Tuesday 10 June | 09:30 - 11:30 | Technology and Safety |
| Monday 16 June | 18:00 - 20:00 | Special Time with your Child |
| Tuesday 17 June | 09:30 - 11:30 | Supporting Healthy Relationships |
| Monday 23 June | 18:00 - 20:00 | Introduction to the Teenage Brain |
| Tuesday 24 June | 09:30 - 11:30 | Solihull Approach workshop for parents ( ages 0-11) |
| Monday 30 June | 18:00 - 20:00 | Routines and Boundaries |
July 2025
| Tuesday 1 July | 09:30 - 11:30 | Special Time with your Child |
| Monday 7 July | 18:00 - 20:00 | Sibling Rivalry and Conflict |
| Tuesday 8 July | 09:30 - 11:30 | Praise and Rewards |
| Monday 14 July | 18:00 - 20:00 | Supporting Education and School |
| Tuesday 15 July | 09:30 - 11:30 | Routines and Boundaries |
| Monday 21 July | 18:00 - 20:00 | Supporting Healthy Relationships |
| Tuesday 22 July | 09:30 - 11:30 | Remaining Calm |
To book onto a bitesize workshop, visit the Positive Parenting Bitesize workshop booking page
Cornwall Virtual Family Space Workshops
These are live virtual workshops with each session lasting up to 2 hours.
Potty Training: this workshop includes the three step ‘Let's Go Potty’ approach, preparation to use the potty, practising potty skills, and stopping using nappies as your child gains confidence.- Child and family Safety in the Home: this workshop can help you think about safety in each room of your home to minimise risks of accidents and injuries to your family. Focusing on falls, burns, scalds, drowning, poisoning, button battery safety and other potential at-home hazards.
- Child and family Safety outside the Home: this workshop will cover sun safety, water safety, garden safety, car seat safety, road safety and firework safety.
- Mini First Aid: an Interactive Virtual Class for parents and carers. This award-winning, CPD-accredited class covers CPR, choking, bumps, burns, breaks, febrile seizures, sepsis and meningitis awareness. Includes a handy digital first aid guide.
- Balanced Mind, Balanced Home: this session, for male parents and carers, will cover stress, anxiety, mental health, grounding techniques and more...
Book onto a Virtual Family Space Workshop
Circle of Security
At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you. The Circle of Security Parenting programme is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.
Using the COSP model developed by the Circle of Security originators, our trained Facilitators work with parents and care-givers to help them to:
- Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs
- Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions
- Enhance the development of their child's self esteem
- Honor the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure
Suitable for babies over 4 months and above. We welcome and encourage couples to attend.
The free eight week course is a term time course and we break over the school holiday times.
Each session lasts 90 minutes and we ask that you attend each session to get the best out of the course.
Previous parents have advised that to be able to get the most from this session it is best that you attend without your baby as there are no childcare facilitates at the venue.
To book onto a workshop, please visit the Parent Activity Groups bookings page
Explore My World 0-1 year
Free baby activity group from birth to 1 year. The small friendly group will be hosted by the Foundations for Life team and will focus on six themes:
Week 1 – Communicating with your baby
Week 2 – Stories, Songs and Signs
Week 3 – Little Movers
Week 4 – Sensory play
Week 5 – Let's get Messy
Week 6 – Passionate about Play
Sessions run for six weeks during term time only (10-11am). Each session is 1 hour. Booking is essential. Tea/coffee and biscuits provided.
Sessions:
25 February 2025 – Trelander Family Hub, Truro
24 February 2025 – Bodmin Family Hub
25 February 2025 – Helston Family Hub
To register your interest, please email: CCHSTraining@cornwall.gov.uk
Explore My World 1-2 years
Free baby activity group from 1-2 years. The small friendly group will be hosted by the Foundations for Life team and will focus on six themes:
Week 1 – Types of Play
Week 2 – Loose Parts Play
Week 3 – Keeping Your Child Safe
Week 4 – Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Week 5 – Communications and Language
Week 6 – Independent Toddlers and Emotional Development
Sessions run for six weeks during term time only (10-11am). Each session is 1 hour. Booking is essential. Tea/coffee and biscuits provided.
Sessions:
22 April 2025 – Trelander Family Hub, Truro
28 April 2025 – Bodmin Family Hub
22 April 2025 – Helston Family Hub
To register your interest, please email: CCHSTraining@cornwall.gov.uk
Baby Massage
Six free sessions offer parents and carers the opportunity to learn baby massage techniques that will aid their baby's development and strengthen the bond between them. The sessions are for baby's 0-6 months and are delivered by the Foundations for Life Team.
Babies need to have had their 6-8 week health check with the GP prior to starting the course.
What does the programme include:
Week 1 – Introduction to baby massage and offering the holding reassurance program
Week 2 – Repeating the holding reassurance program and offering the developmental baby massage routine
Week 3 – Developmental baby massage routine continued
Week 4 – Developmental baby massage routine continued
Week 5 – Other helpful baby massage techniques, for example, for colds, earaches, constipation, reflux, colic and an opportunity for questions
Week 6 – Celebration, Signposting and Evaluation
Further sessions will be advertised shortly.
A maximum of eight parents/cares and babies per session. To register your interest please email CCHSTraining@cornwall.gov.uk
Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally (SPACE)
SPACE is a free programme for any parent or carer who wants to better understand and support their children’s emotions, as well as their own.
This 6-week face-to-face programme will cover:
- Understanding what is meant by a Trauma Informed approach
- Understanding toxic stress and the flight/fight response
- Practical approaches to support children to regulate their emotions
- Healthy coping strategies for dealing with stress
- Managing different emotions
- Understanding behaviour
- Building resilience in ourselves and our children
- Adopting appropriate expectations of children
- Enhancing your ability to provide nurturing care
For more details and to book your place, contact Headstart Kernow
Ready, Steady... Eat - An introduction to solid food
Introducing your baby to solid foods starts when your baby is around 6 months old. Your baby should be introduced to a varied diet, alongside their usual breast milk or first infant formula. It can be confusing knowing when and how to start introducing solid foods. We’re here to guide you through the journey of starting your baby on solid foods and explain what it all means.
This is a 2-hour session, booking is essential.
Ready, Steady...Grow - Antenatal and Postnatal Health & Wellbeing
Our ‘Ready, Steady…Grow’ sessions focus on healthy nutrition, physical activity and general health and wellbeing, for both your baby and you, during and after pregnancy.
The programme is completely FREE and run over two 2-hour sessions, one of which is antenatal and one postnatal. Booking is essential.
In these sessions we’ll discuss a variety of health topics such as healthy nutrition and getting active, in a relaxed, informal and comfortable environment.
Arguing Better - a workshop for parents with a child of any age
You will learn:
- Where stress comes from and how it can effect you
- Ways to recognise stress and talk about it
- How to support each other through difficult times
- What causes arguments and how to stop them
Both parents are encouraged to attend together, but one parent can attend on their own.
To book onto a workshop, visit the Arguing Better bookings page
Getting it right for Children - a workshop for separating or separated parents
You will learn:
- How to stay calm and listen as well as talk
- Why it's helpful to see things from a different point of view
- What to do to stop a discussion from turning into an argument
- Skills for finding solutions and making compromises
Parents should attend separate courses and book on separate dates.
To book onto a workshop, please visit the Getting it right for Children bookings page
Home-Start
Home-Start Kernow offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with children under 5 throughout Cornwall. Parents may struggle at one time or another, you are not alone, that’s when Home-Start Kernow can help.
Home-Start offer a variety of groups for families and most groups operate every week during term time. Most families will get 6 months of group support, some may be offered places for longer if additional support is needed or needs change.
Come chat and play with us.
Visit the Home-Start Kernow website to find out more information and book a place
WILD
WILD welcomes young parents, their children, and young people who are expecting a baby. We welcome mums, dads and young parents under the age of 23, and their babies and children under the age of 5.
WILD Young Parents provide weekly groups for young parents across the county, as well as online chat groups and one to one support and help.