At NICE we believe that we have a significant role in working with the parents and helping, guiding and supporting them in working with their...
Includes therapy, coaching, training, educational support and support groups.
ABA Horizons believes every child can learn. Especially when given the right tools and support. Despite if they learn differently from you and I. We strive to help young people on the spectrum to maximise their potential.
Based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis, we provide high quality, individualised services. We increase effective learning by reducing barriers that prevents learning. We teach functionally equivalent skills to replace behaviours that may challenge.
Located in the South of Birmingham but provide services across the West Midlands
Attendance at meetings and moral support, especially when dealing with case conferences, solicitors or court cases
This service provides relevant advice and information on a wide range of issues that may affect you when diagnosed with Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia. This also includes a signposting service where appropriate.
Support that we are offering during the Covid-19 pandemic includes family support, breastfeeding advice/support, food banks referrals, dependent on availability, wellbeing support, sharing activities to...
KIKIT Pathways to Recovery provides an open access community based drop in service. The following services are provided in community languages at the drop in...
Support after care
Father Hudson’s understands the importance of being able to find out information about one’s origins and about the period of time spent...
Play and leisure opportunities provider for disabled children and young people.
Play schemes, youth activities, after school, Saturday sessions.
Contact Simbi Folarin for more details.
After school care provision for NHS workers. Food packages will soon be offered.
• Supervised contact
• Available 7 days a week
• Initial assessment
• Risk assessment
• Introduction sessions if required to get to know the...
Caring for antenates and neonates
Every year over 80,000 babies in the UK are admitted to a specialist neonatal unit*. Unfortunately there are a comparatively...
Art craft packs containing all items needed to make and create fun and exciting things with your child. For delivery, please contact pam.atwal@oasisshortheath.org or 07929347761.
The project involves the creation of arts boxes, with the intention of giving not only adults
and children fun-at-home activities, but also to anyone in...
Bring your baby and let them explore! Sessions held every Wednesday from 10.00am - 11.15am. All sessions are free of charge and there is a...
Tuesday 11.00am - 12.00pm
Monday 1.30pm - 3.00pm.
Please call Lime Tree to book a place (Early Years or Family Support team)
Tuesdays 09.30 - 11.00am
Balsall Heath DOSTI group runs a drop-in session once a week, (every Wednesday, 12.30 to 2.30pm) providing a safe and trusted environment where women from all backgrounds can come and meet like-minded people.
Through Balsall Heath DOSTI group we provide health sessions delivered by professionals in the community in home languages; language development through basic English classes being accessed by users of DOSTI group; confidence building through doing, which involved trip to market in Birmingham
BCAT are a registered arts therapies charity working with children and adults who have a wide range of emotional, social, behavioural or mental health issues. BCAT provide professional arts therapies, and arts in health and wellbeing community services.
Support group for children who have a parent in prison. Self referral for free support services can be made by emailing; info@childrenheardandseen.co.uk
CSCA are an independent organisation providing high quality, tailored child care services to statutory and voluntary agencies, courts, solicitors and individuals in public and private...
Home-visiting
Home-visiting support is at the heart of what we do. It is a solution we have adapted and refined over 40 years. And it...
The Information and Advice service is available for anyone caring for a friend or family member within Birmingham. This service can be accessed by telephone, email or via outreach sessions at various locations throughout Birmingham. Please visit our website or get in touch to find out more.
Our specialist team can provide advice and information on:
• One to one support – from assisting with welfare entitlements to counselling
• Accessing grants and carer breaks (subject to availability)
• Carer Emergency Response Service – CERS
• Training for carers
• Carer support groups
• Wellbeing provision, for some ‘me-time’ away from caring
• Out of school activities for children with additional support needs
• Signposting to other agencies who can assist carers
• Online communities through Facebook and Twitter
Place of Welcome in Ladywood, particular focus on young families. This support is running via zoom every Thursday at 1.30pm.
E-mail ruth.fuller@karisneighbourscheme.org for further details.
At a time where we are all unable to access Play and Stay groups in the community, we would like to bring Play and Stay...
Athac provides a bespoke service to individuals who have an assessed need and are in receipt of direct payment. We deliver a personalised enriching programme...
We are now taking referrals in the Birmingham area, support services include group sessions online along with one to one support interventions. this is facilitated via 1:1 support, mentoring and group activities. We have a weekly group each week for children and young people who live in Birmingham.
As a response to Covid-19, we are now providing virtual group sessions for children with a parent in prison and their families. These sessions connect children with other children in similar situations and with similar feelings. We also provide targeted 1:1 support to help children manage feelings and emotions. The support is totally without cost to the families. We are currently able to accept referrals.
In 2019 we won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. This is the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK to recognise the exceptional service within their communities.
Children workers work closely with children providing a wide range of play sessions and techniques to help children to come to terms with their experience...
The learning resource pack/children’s magazine is filled with fun educational activities directly related to KS1 curriculum and designed to embed the learning from the stories.
Our team of volunteer mentors support children and young people who are experiencing challenges as a result of Covid – 19 who live within the...
Mentoring Support for Mental Health wellbeing. One to one support is being extended for children engaged with the Mentoring Scheme. Activity resource packs for Primary...
Universal access stay-and-play group.
We are offering one to one and group activities to support young people in their transition to secondary school. Please get in touch with us...
Taking place at Soho Community Centre at 10.30 - 11.30am OR 12.30 - 13.30pm on Tuesday 27th October 2020.
Session will include children's activities with...
Big Hopes Big Future
Home-Start has developed the unique Big Hopes Big Future programme in England to work directly with parents and children and help...
The crèche provides short term on site care for young children aged 6 months to five years old. Children are cared for by qualified staff...
Family Support offer a drop-in service, providing emotional and practical support on a wide range of issues including financial worries, childcare and applying for school...
Come along and enjoy free play activities at Stay & Play, a safe and stimulating environment where your child can socialise and develop pre-school skills....
Come along and enjoy free play activities at Stay & Play, a safe and stimulating environment where your child can socialise and develop pre-school skills....
We run 1 day Anger Management courses from our Custard Factory Location.
At Pattigift, we facilitate a wide range of community development programmes (in conjunction with other groups)
Ethnicity focus: African,African,African,African
Range of supportive, practical and emotional based interventions to help improve resilience and reduce isolation for individuals affected by genetic blood disorder.
Our Roots Counselling, Mental Wellbeing and Mental Health promotion that adopts a community counselling model where we engage the community in a dialogue that keeps...
TECC Services has 15+ years extensive experience working with children and young people from a variety of settings and backgrounds, including those from the local...
Age 5 and under free sessions.
Mondays 09.30am - 11.00am and 11.00am to 12.30pm
Fridays 09.30am - 12.00pm
Free refreshments!
Established in 2000, Caudwell Children is a national charity which works to transform the lives of disabled children and their families, enabling them to challenge...
DOSTI’s group runs a drop-in session once a week, providing a safe and trusted environment where women from all backgrounds can come and meet like-minded people.
Through DOSTI group we provide health sessions delivered by professionals in the community in home languages; language development through basic English classes being accessed by users of DOSTI group; confidence building through doing, which involved trip to market in Birmingham.
IntoUniversity offers an innovative programme that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to attain either a university place or another chosen aspiration. During the Covid-19...
Respectful and compassionate care for a child or young person and their family members at the end of life, ensures their physical, psychological, social and...
Parent and Family Support
At KIDS, we have services that provide general parent and family support as well as Key working, Sleep projects, Parent forums...
-Offers individual & family coaching with our ‘Sikh Model of Coaching’
Monday and Wednesday 09.30am - 11.00am
Messy Church
Messy Church is on the 2nd Sunday of every month, from 4pm-6pm.
Messy church involves lots of activities, some messy, some not, which...
Family Fit is our largest project. It aims to work with local families, mainly ethnic minorities, to improve their health and wellbeing. It is funded...
Early intervention
Early - in children's lives. Early - in the development of any problems facing a family
Children's essential social, emotional and life skills...
Who is the Family Mediation service for? Anyone aged from 16 to 21 who is at risk of homelessness.
"They were there when I really...
We are Handsworth Beat the Street Community Cycle Club we have been running since November 2016 from the Learn to Ride a bike sessions in...
It is estimated that for every child with a life limiting or life threatening condition, five family members will be directly impacted and our aim...
Do you need help with choosing how and where you want to live?
Do you want choice and control about how you live your life?...
ASIRT is a not-for-profit OISC regulated advocacy organisation which provides legal support and representation to asylum seekers and other undocumented migrants in the West Midlands....
Our family outreach workers provide support in the home to families in Birmingham where one or more children has a diagnosis of autism. This work...
Emotional support to help parents find ways to manage and resolve problems
Direct support to children, including playing, listening, having fun, establishing routines, encouraging development...
Six Home-Starts, supporting over 500 families and almost 1,200 children in wards across Birmingham, every single day.
In 2014 Home-Start Birmingham published its seminal report-...
The Gujarati Community Is Very Close Knit With Very Traditional Family Values. The Ability To Communicate In Gujarati Language Is Very Important. As This Group...
Though we are unable to conduct face-to-face meetings, a wide range of advice and support is still available from our teams at Lakeside Children's Centre,...
Diamonds In The Rough CIC is based in Birmingham and assists Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic (BAME) communities and disadvantaged/low income families access all available services by offering a personalised, culturally aware service.
We have a coffee morning for local women - women's coffee morning and social get together, and a sewing and embroidery class
Family Groups
Many Home-Starts run family groups. They are held regularly, at a local venue, where you and your children can come along and meet...
Six Home-Starts, supporting over 500 families and almost 1,200 children in wards across Birmingham, every single day.
In 2014 Home-Start Birmingham published its seminal report-...
Six Home-Starts, supporting over 500 families and almost 1,200 children in wards across Birmingham, every single day.
In 2014 Home-Start Birmingham published its seminal report-...
We can provide:
-Personalized befriending and Outreach services.
-The opportunity to make friends and socialize.
When someone close to you is diagnosed with cancer it can be an overwhelming experience. We have advice to help you cope.
If your partner has Parkinson's, or you care for someone with the condition, you may have some concerns related to money. You may be entitled...
Acacia is a unique charity that supports mums and families affected by pre or postnatal depression (PND) in Birmingham.
We aim to make your time with us as stress-free as possible. You can use this part of the site to find information about where...
Birmingham Irish Association have been working in our school community for the past 3 years, in that time they have made a significant contribution to...
Ethnicity focus: Irish
Weekley Integrated Education, Food and Activity Boxes for familes connected with Billesley Primary school.
Due to the current situation we are dealing with more domestic abuse cases and single mums are suffering with mentla health due to being in...
Charity providing volunteer support support to families with an under 5 living in the Erdington, Stockland Green, Nechells, Aston, Lozells and East Handsworth and Handsworth...
Happy Bags are given to young people (aged 12+ yrs) who are vulnerable or struggling with their mental health during these times. They are also...
Provision of essentials (i.e. cots, pushchairs, clothes, nappies) for newborns and infants, referral only via social worker/support worker/health professional etc. Please get in touch with...
Delivery of sensory tools for families of MSI children to use during lockdown.
Well-being packs, provided for families suffering from emotional Mentall health and low moods.
Emergency bags for victims fleeing domestic abuse- Individuals who have limted or...
Providing under 5s with stories, games, craft activities on Youtube, posting out DVDs for those who don't have internet access.
Offering craft Packs for families...
Chronic Fatigue Conditions, M.E. and Fibromyalgia
Food Collections Four Dwellings Primary. (Monday & Friday PM)
Food deliveries 7 days a week, referrals via The Active Wellbeing Society website.
Fostering, adoption and short break care
Barnardo's has over 100 years' experience of placing children with families, and we currently have over 30 fostering, adoption...
FREE Therapy & Counselling
A true investment to a brighter future!
Women's Consortium are delivering free therapy across Birmingham supporting individuals to develop resilience against...
Group support sessions last for up to 2 hours and comprise of the first hour being largely informative, addressing the specific needs of the group....
As part of the Midlands Hub, we provide a range of services for young refugees and migrants across Birmingham and Coventry, covering a broad range of issues which impact on their lives.
Advive and support via telephone/email/video call for families with autistic children.
Meets every Monday from 10.00am to 12.00pm
Alarmingly, one child is orphaned every 22 seconds in the world (check references below). Life is no doubt hard for these children. Fortunately, there is...
John Taylor Hospice provides specialist palliative and end of life care for people in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Both at the hospice in Birmingham and in the local community, that care is ‘Taylor-made’ to the individual.
To find out more contact Birchfield Library.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, we are offering one to one mentoring support to young people aged 10 - 16 based on their wellbeing needs. Please...
Access to Heritage, Art and Culture’ (Athac CIC) is a social enterprise providing services for parents & carers to access local and national leisure, culture,...
What is Malachi Family Support?
Our most requested service, one-to-one therapeutic Family Support is an intensive programme which builds bridges to your most difficult to...
Coaching, therapy, counselling, emotional support, EMDR, pain, trauma, famlies, relationships and sex
Oratto is a free to use online resource, full of useful legal information and guides on a wide range of topics, including probate, Wills, divorce...
As-Suffa Outreach in partnership with Birmingham Mind welcomes you to our ’Sunflower Afternoons’. Come along to our weekly FREE Sunshine Sessions where you can get...
The Parent Project is for:
-Parents of teenagers
-Parents of young people with additional needs
-Teenage parents
It offers information, activities and resources to parents...
CSCA’s paramount concern is the welfare and best interests of children.
We support parents and carers in addressing their physical, emotional and psycological needs through...
The Red Boots Parent and Child service provides a comprehensive intervention appropriate to the age, ability and special needs of the children and leads to the development of motor, communication, social and cognitive skills using an active learning approach.
Are you a parent of an adolescent aged 13-19 years old? Book for our next workshop!
John Taylor Hospice’s patient and family support worker provides advice, practical help and signposting for people who have been referred for our care. An end of life diagnosis can lead to other concerns or issues around income, benefits, housing and financial planning.
Our patient and family support worker can help navigate the system for housing, benefits, care costs, wills and other problems which can arise. Working closely with the clinical and well-being teams, the patient and family support worker offers holistic care, advice and a listening ear.
Play and leisure opportunities provider for disabled children and young people.
Play schemes, youth activities, after school, Saturday sessions.
Contact Simbi Folarin for more details.
During the school holidays we run a number of Children’s Play schemes. Details are on the flyers below. There is also an After School Club...
Play Den Playscheme was founded in 2009 with the intention of not only providing fun activities for younger children of Alum Rock, Bordesley Green, Washwood...
Rainbow Day Nursery has been rated 'GOOD' by Ofsted following our first inspection last month.
We offer full time free nursery places for children aged...
A true assessment
Our service is based in the community allowing families to meet in a neutral environment where the focus is on a child-led...
John Taylor Hospice offers regular and one-off breaks of one or two weeks for people aged 18 and above who have a palliative diagnosis. Respite at the hospice in Erdington, Birmingham, offers you and your family a break. It can also be an opportunity to talk to our nurses, doctors and other specialists about what’s happening, what works and what could be improved or changed. Expert therapeutic care is on hand at your bedside whenever you need it.
Throughout the year
Residential Respite
For a longer period of care we have two, four-bedded respite homes where people with disabilities, who are 18 years of age and...
We offer both volunteer and paid specialist one to one support for anyone with a diagnosis of autism of any age. All staff and volunteers...
Play and leisure opportunities provider for disabled children and young people.
Play schemes, youth activities, after school, Saturday sessions.
Contact Simbi Folarin for more details.
We aim to provide children with the skills and strategies they require to lead more independent and fulfilled lives. Through activity-based programmes, conductors work with children to develop their thinking and learning skills, movement, speech and communication skills, self-care and social skills.
Our mission statement states ‘caring for your child’s future’ to us this means that these precious children are not going to get a second chance....
SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service)
SENDIASS
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service or SENDIASS is...
The Children can attend Early Intervention Services on a range of bases, including:
As a full-time nursery school (3-4 years)
As a full-time reception class (4-5 years)
As a specialist part-time provision in conjunction with another provision (aged 3-7 years) attending on a flexible basis from one to five sessions a week;
Children can also attend on a fixed-term block basis, attending five days each week.
Along with their gross and fine motor development the children are developing their ability to co-operate, listening skills, attention and concentration, receptive and expressive language skills, problem solving, reasoning and numeracy and their knowledge and understanding of the world, their perception skills, hand-eye co-ordination and creative understanding.
Comprehensive reports
We provide comprehensive detailed reports which include recommendations, positives and ways to move forward with supervised contact.
Father Hudson’s provides Family Support in 36 schools in the Archdiocese. Our intensive, tailored mentoring and advocacy supports over 400 children and their families every...
Specialist Family Support
What is the service?
This service funded by Children in Need provides direct family support for parents with a learning disability. Our...
For 0-5's - run by Barnardo's - fee is £1.50 per family
All are available for hourly bookings, contact us for availability
Little ones seem to have endless energy, but parents sometimes need space to recharge the batteries. This is a great place for the tots to...
Monday 09.30 - 11.00am, Tuesday 09.15am - 10.45am, Thursday 1.00pm - 2.30pm and Friday 1.00pm - 2.30pm
Parents with pre-school children welcome
Wednesday
Stirchley Parents & Toddlers, 10-12pm. Contact: sarahoneill1987@hotmail.co.uk
MND Regional Care Development Advisers
Regional Care Development Advisers are experienced professionals with a background in health or social care. On average, they each cover...
The Red Cross helps thousands of people following a short stay in hospital and prevents unnecessary hospital admissions by providing extra support and care at...
Opening Times for visitors
Monday: 08.00-16.30
Tuesday: 08.00-20.00
Wednesday: 08.00-20.00
Thursday: 08.00-20.00
Friday: 08.00-16.30
Saturday: 08.00-16.30
Sunday: 08.00-16.30
Additional information: The Visitors Centre is situated...
Family support
Family support workers go into the home to offer a support service to the disabled child and their parents or carers, in order...
If you give care and support to someone else it can be all too easy to neglect your own health and wellbeing.
Caring for someone...
BANA is the UK’s only national charity providing support and information for people affected by acoustic neuroma and the interrelated conditons, symptoms and effects.
Our...
During the current pandemic, the drop in is running daily from 10am - 2pm. Our drop-in workers can provide support with a range of needs...
Anawim is a voluntary sector organisation based in Birmingham which provides support services to women and their children at its Centre in Balsall Heath and...
Home-visiting
Home-visiting support is at the heart of what we do. It is a solution we have adapted and refined over 40 years. And it...
Women are assigned a support worker as soon as they enter the refuge. Risk assessments are conducted immediately upon entry to ensure the safety of...
Our service helps those whose health and wellbeing have left them vulnerable and at risk of not managing their household and other issues effectively. We...
• Supervised contact
• Available 7 days a week
• Initial assessment
• Risk assessment
• Introduction sessions if required to get to know the...
Diaries
Keeping track of your epilepsy can help doctors to see if there is a pattern to when your seizures happen. This will help them...
Our day services teams work with adults from the age of nineteen upwards, with no upper age limit, to deliver stimulating programmes of activities which...
Coaching, therapy, counselling, emotional support, EMDR, pain, trauma, famlies, relationships and sex
Telephone support to 20-to 25 families each week to make sure that they are ok and coordinate volunteers that will help us to provide direct...
We offer therapeutic services via secure online platforms to ensure that those families whose stress has increased, as a result of social distancing and staying...
We partnered with Action for Children on our Birmingham City Council Think Family project providing support to troubled families. The Children’s Society subcontracted two HeadStart...
Tuesdays 1.00 - 3.00pm. Takes place at Aston Health Centre (appointment only).
Autis Birmingham, is going to be delivering a number of Growing packs over June and July and craft/sensory kits July/Aug to Children with SEND and...
TECC Services in Birmingham offers family support to parents and carers with emphasis on enhancing the independence and personal competency of the child. We are...
Say What!
A support group for young parents that aims to assist them in working through this massive change in their lives, whether it be...
We are currently able to provide this mentoring support virtually - please contact us for further details.
Within the Gro-Organic mentoring service, we usually work...