Reaching Families delivers a wide range of high quality training workshops and courses designed to inform and empower parent-carers in West Sussex. Most of our training is delivered online via Zoom as parent-carers tell us this is the most accessible way to participate. Please see below for our latest workshops and courses, all of which are FREE. You do not need to be a member to attend. All of our training can be booked via Eventbrite. We recommend booking early as all sessions are highly popular and sell out very quickly.

Understanding ADHD
This workshop will help parents and carers to understand ADHD and the impact it has on their child's relationships, behaviour and day-to-day life. Exploring strategies to support your child and sharing information on local resources that are available to you.
Monday 13th January - 7.30 pm via Zoom

 

Making Sense of Education Health Care Needs Assessments and Plans
This workshop provides an overview of the EHC needs assessment and what a good EHCP should contain, including requesting an assessment and reviewing an existing plan.
Thursday 23rd January - 7.30 pm via Zoom

 

Making Sense of Behaviours that Challenge in Adolescence (Age 11+)
This workshop will explore how your young person’s brain works, how hormones and puberty impact upon our children, how we can support them and respond to behaviours that challenge to achieve positive outcomes.
Friday 24th January - 10.30 am via Zoom

 

Understanding Autism
This workshop will help parents and carers to understand Autism and social communication difficulties and the impact it has on their child's relationships, behaviour and day-to-day life. Exploring strategies to support your child and sharing information on local resources that are available to you.
Monday 27th January - 7:30 pm via Zoom

 

Making Sense of Wellbeing: Self-care and managing stress
This workshop aims to help you to learn how to recognise stress in yourself, provide strategies to reduce it and how to look after your own health and wellbeing when you are busy caring for others.
Tuesday 28th January - 7:30 pm via Zoom

 

Making Sense of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
This workshop will cover how to apply for DLA, how the process works, the various rates, understanding how decisions are made, tips for making a strong claim and appealing a decision.
Wednesday 5th February - 10.30 am via Zoom

 

Understanding Demand Avoidance
This workshop aims to help parents and carers gain an understanding of demand avoidance in children and young people. We will look at the demand avoidant profile and explore strategies for supporting your child.
Friday 7th February - 10.30 am via Zoom

 

Making Sense of Masking
This workshop will help parents and carers to understand and recognise the signs and impact of masking and explore strategies to help children and young people to 'unmask'.
Monday 10th February - 7.30 pm via Zoom

 

Making Sense of Wellbeing: How to manage your anxiety
This workshop explores ideas and coping strategies to help you relate to anxiety differently and how to manage this, find a focus and feel calmer.
Tuesday 11th February - 10.30 am via Zoom

 

All workshops are via Zoom

 

How to book

To book a place on one of our workshops please click on the individual links above or visit our Eventbrite page (click the logo).

If you have any difficulty booking a place or would like any further information, please contact us on 01903 366360 or via email.

This course has been designed to provide an introduction to all the key issues and challenges common to parents and carers. It aims to empower parents of children who are undergoing or have recently undergone diagnosis but it will be helpful to any parents who would like to learn more about how SEND processes work.

Next course will be in the Spring term - dates to be confirmed.

If you have any queries regarding the course or the booking please email us at outreach-training@reachingfamilies.org.uk.

Commission Us

Reaching Families are also available to deliver tailor made training to suit the particular needs of schools, parent support groups, other charities, etc. If your group would like training on a specific subject we can manage and deliver this for you including sourcing and commissioning trainers, marketing, administration, booking venues, organising catering and refreshments, follow up evaluation, etc. If you would like to discuss training for your school or group please contact our Operations Manager, Donna Manwill, for an informal discussion of your requirements.