Family Support
Home-Start believe every parent should have the support they need to give their child a better future. They support families, communities and parents.
PACT (Parents and Carers Together) began in 2013 when two local parents realised they shared concern for children/young people experiencing mental health issues in Suffolk. After meeting up regularly and offering support over coffee, PACT was established to help locate, support and maintain the ongoing wellbeing of other parents and carers in similar positions. PACT believes that through offering a safe space to listen and support (with no judgement), providing training resources and welcoming a variety of guest speakers with appropriate knowledge and experience we will enable and empower parents to continue to support the wellbeing of our children and young people as well as ourselves.
If a child/young person is experiencing a range of difficulties it may be useful to explore this further by completing an Early Help assessment. The best way to do this is involve their educational setting or an involved health professional who will be able to explore this further. If necessary the professional will be able to get further advice from the Family Support service.
Useful Resources
The resources below aim to support your child at home. These include everything from sentence starter prompts to engage in play to visual timetables for morning routines.
Say it or think it sorting activity
Social Story about Interrupting (Interrupting Isaac)
Assertiveness in play sentence starters
Assertiveness in play - asking to join in sentence starters
Supporting social language and regulation
