Family Action - Helping Hands Black Country

We work for parents and careers across the Black Country, supporting you to better understand your young person’s autistic or ADHD needs. We explore behaviours and help to create positive learning strategies as well as sharing lived experiences and creating safe spaces for families to come together.

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

TIM Workshops: Parent/carers and in-school sessions

Developed by volunteers and 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 EHCP plans.

We also deliver TIM workshops in schools to young people aged 4-11 years. 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 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 and behaviours. It has given us lots of information to consider and reflect on.” Feedback: A Parent's experience.

Our 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.

Social prescribing/peer support. 

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