Parenting

A vacuum has been found in different key areas of the children development and their parents’ full integration in the community. Those key areas are for example: Developing Domestic & Life Skills; Developing Social/Interpersonal Skills & Promoting Identity; Promoting Health and Safety; Support in Education, Training & Employment; Understanding the Asylum Determination Process & the Post Grant of Refugee Status thereon. This project has been set up to put greater emphasis on working with both parents and teenagers and incorporate aspects of the issues and practices against in broader perspective the government's key outcomes for children set out in the document Every Child Matters (these being: be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution, achieve economic well-being).

The organisation offers a range of Positive Family Support Initiatives where more parents from Birmingham and Sandwell areas are involved in supporting our children in a variety of ways. The aim is to improve parenting skills by providing information and sharing experiences to be used in supporting our children under 16 years old. Our work is with black African families of central Africa origin and our target group includes:

• Single parents
• Fathers
• Parents with teenage children
• Parents of children with challenging and anti social behaviour
• Parents/children abusing drugs/alcohol
• Parents with children in prison
• Foster parents/carers
• Step parents
• Parents of children on the social services risk register and facing school exclusion
• Parents with terminal illness and those parenting under other difficult circumstances.
• Children with learning needs (Saturday Home work club)