Black Country Helping Hands Support

Support, advice and guidance to parents/careers and their families, diagnosed or on a pathway for autism or ADHD.

Black Country Helping Hands offers support, advice and guidance to parents/careers and their families, diagnosed or on a pathway for autism or ADHD.

This Is Me (TIM) Workshops: Parent/carers and in-school sessions

Developed by volunteers & parents with lived experience, we offer virtual and face to face TIM (This is me) workshops that look at understanding behaviours. Centred around understanding individual feelings, these workshops act as a window to the young persons behaviour and can be shared with any one that has contact with the little/young person. They can also form part of ECHP plans.

They deliver TIM workshops in schools to young people aged 4-11years. Doing different activities each week, exploring the many pieces of me, making potions and creating breathing dragons. Each little person receives a sensory book, a set of mood cards and a certificate.

“The journey before, during and after diagnosis is subjective, and parents and professionals are always learning. The TIM programme helped with structure around understanding conditions & behaviours. It has given us lots of information to consider and reflect on.” Feedback: A Parent's experience.

Monthly Sharing Rooms
Parents are also invited to attend our monthly sharing rooms – informal coffee mornings that create a safe space for parents to be themselves, meet other parents and build effective relationships. We also have books/resources for families to access if required and signpost into other services when appropriate.

Family Sensory Sessions
Family sensory sessions, delivered during the summer holidays, creating a space for families to make connections with other families that have similar lived experiences. These sessions provide opportunity to PLAY and interact with art/crafts and other sensory activities. To book a place contact the team directly on: helpinghandsbc@family-action.org.uk

Social prescribing/peer support. 
Our social prescribing/peer support element looks to create effective 'lived experience' support through promoting peer mentoring or befriending.

For more information and how to refer visit the Black Country Helping Hands Website:

https://family-action.org.uk/services/helping-hands-autism-adhd-behaviour-support/

or email: helpinghandsbc@family-action.org.uk