Early Help Support Page

Welcome to our Early Help information and support page. Here you will find lots of information on support available to you and your family. Keep scrolling and you will find information on: 

• What Early Help is
• Free Online parent courses and workshops
• Local Food Bank information ( we can issue vouchers) 
• Bereavement Support
• Well - Being 
• Our list of useful contact numbers
• Support Organisation Links

Free Online Parenting Course and Workshops

Free online course for parents

Written by psychologists, psychotherapists and NHS professionals, the course can be done on any PCs, MACs, iPads, laptop or smartphone, at a time and pace to suit family life.
There are 11 sessions each taking around 20 minutes. The main screen has optional audio voice-overs, and there are interactive activities, quizzes, video clips and practical hand-outs.

The course covers:

• responding to how your teenager is feeling
• how your teenager communicates
• how your teenager develops
• understanding your teenager’s behaviour
• different styles of parenting
• sleep, self-regulation and anger

Go to: www.inourplace.co.uk

Use Code: WALSAPARNT                                                   

Food Bank Information 

We are really pleased to be partnered with Black Country Food Bank and can issue food bank vouchers to any of our families who are in need  of  support. Each voucher  can be redeemed for 3 days worth of nutritional  food  for each member of the household.

Once we have given out a voucher it can be taken to any of the local   distribution centres and exchanged for food.  These centres also offer a wide range of support  and advice ; including benefits and budgeting advice, in order to provide a long term solutions.

If you need a voucher please pop into the office and ask to speak to Miss Thomson or Mrs Nadat.

Vouchers can be redeemed at the following local places :

ABLEWELL ADVICE     Ablewell Street Walsall WS1 2EQ

Opening Hours:

0.9 mi

Directions

Bus Routes: Bus Routes: 77, 5, 637, 934, 935

Website: http://www.ablewelladvice.org.uk/

THE ROCK  Lichfield House27 – 31 Lichfield Street Walsall WS1 1TE

Opening Hours:

1.2 mi

Directions  Bus Routes: Any bus to a Walsall bus station, then a 6min walk

Website: http://www.therockchurch.co.uk

ALL SAINTS     All Saints Church Hall, Walsall Road Darlaston WS10 9LA

Opening Hours:

1.6 mi

Directions  Bus Routes: 34, 38 & 39 (practically right outside the doors)

NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF GOD FOODBANK

5 Upper Lichfield Street, Willenhall West Midlands WV13 1PB

Opening Hours:

2.9 mi

Directions  Bus Routes: 28, 40, 41, 57, 303, 326, 333 & 529

Website: https://ntcg.org.uk/locations/willenhall/

BRIDGING THE GAP    79A Stafford Street, Willenhall Walsall WV13 1RT

Opening Hours:

3 mi

Directions  Bus Routes: 28, 40, 41, 57, 303, 326, 333, 529

Website: http://www.bridgegap.org.uk

Bereavement Support 

The Swing

 The Swing is the name of Walsall's  bereavement service which provides support for children, young people and families.

There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Grief might happen a long time after the death and manifest itself in many different ways. Confused by the events and the changes occurring, a child will sometimes take on the anxiety of the people they live with. They might feel that they want to protect the adults from further distress by not asking questions about the death or talking about their own issues.

What happens during counselling sessions?

The aim of the counselling is to allow the children/young people to express themselves without any worry that what they might be saying, thinking or feeling is 'wrong'. If children ask questions the counsellor/support worker will answer honestly and in an appropriate way. This might seem extreme to some parents / carers but in the longer term children have reported that they were glad this happened.

For more information, visit our website and download a copy of our Supporting Bereaved Children booklet below. 

The Swing Website 

Well Being

BBC BITESIZE MENTAL HEALTH WEEK 

Support Organisations

Mental health

• Kooth
• Mentalhealth
• Youngminds

Drug misuse

• Drug facts 4 young people
• Warning issued regarding the risks of using Nitrous Oxide : Whilst it has a number of legitimate uses such as medicinal sedation and as a propellant in whipped cream canisters the recreational use of nitrous oxide, usually inhaled from balloons, has become more popular amongst young people but is potentially life threatening.

Alcohol misuse

• Nacoa
• Drink Aware

Homelessness

• YMCA Black Country