1 Reaching Families, a parent-carer led charity
Service
Reaching Families is a parent-carer led charity established to "empower, inform and support parents and families of children/young people with special needs and disabilities in West Sussex." We achieve this by the delivery of information, training and support groups to parent-carers.
What we do:
- Making Sense Of It All - this comprehensive parent-carer guide provides vital information across a wide variety of subjects including diagnosis, benefits, education, social and leisure activities etc. Also contains a directory of local and national groups
- Making Sense of Adult Life - this comprehensive parent-carer guide provides vital information on the subject of transition to adulthood for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities aged 14-25.
- Factsheets - we have published two series of factsheets (i) localised factsheets on major childhood disabilities that combine clinical information with local information on relevant local services (ii) a variety of localised factsheets on other issues
- Training Roadshow - we deliver a series of workshops at venues and locations across West Sussex. Subjects covered include Understanding Challenging Behaviour, DLA/PIP, Education, Sensory Issues and Stress/ Resilience.
- Umbrellas - we run 3 support groups for parents or carers of a child or young person with additional needs or a disability in Billingshurst, Littlehampton and Worthing
Our users say:
"Reaching Families offers a unique product in West Sussex. It is comforting to know that the organisation is parent carer led but offers practical tools to assist us in our day to day lives"
Age Range: 0–25
Wheelchair Accessible?
Free to use?
Contact Details
01903 366 360
07470 005 734 Email this service
Upcoming Events
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Making Sense of Wellbeing - Active Listening
Making Sense of Wellbeing - Resilience Skills - Session 1.
This six week course for parent-carers offers you the opportunity to explore some of the essential elements of wellbeing. Our personal and social wellbeing helps us to develop good relationships, feel connected to others and improves our resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
The course includes a blend of wellbeing and mindfulness worksh...
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Making Sense of It All Foundation Course
Free Zoom Workshop for parent-carers based in West Sussex.
Has your child been recently identified as having additional needs?
Do you find the systems and support for special educational needs confusing?
Would you benefit from a broad overview of how it all works?
This 3 part course has been designed to provide an introduction on all the key issues parent-carers will encounter as your children ...
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Making Sense of Wellbeing - Mindfulness:...
Making Sense of Wellbeing - Resilience Skills - Session 2.
This six week course for parent-carers offers you the opportunity to explore some of the essential elements of wellbeing. Our personal and social wellbeing helps us to develop good relationships, feel connected to others and improves our resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
The course includes a blend of wellbeing and mindfulness worksh...
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Coming Out Of Lockdown: Strategies for...
Dealing with the Covid pandemic and lockdown has been a very real and added strain for most parent-carers and their families. It’s been hard to adapt and manage family life over the past year -and it might be tricky to re-adjust and re-connect with a ‘new normal’ as the lockdown ends.
In this workshop delivered by Kim Aumann, we will take time out to reflect on what’s happened and explore some pra...
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Making Sense of Wellbeing - Problem Solving
Making Sense of Wellbeing - Resilience Skills - Session 3.
This six week course for parent-carers offers you the opportunity to explore some of the essential elements of wellbeing. Our personal and social wellbeing helps us to develop good relationships, feel connected to others and improves our resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
The course includes a blend of wellbeing and mindfulness worksh...
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Making Sense of Wellbeing - Mindfulness:...
Making Sense of Wellbeing - Resilience Skills - Session 4.
This six week course for parent-carers offers you the opportunity to explore some of the essential elements of wellbeing. Our personal and social wellbeing helps us to develop good relationships, feel connected to others and improves our resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
The course includes a blend of wellbeing and mindfulness worksh...
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Making Sense of Wellbeing - Positive Thinking
Making Sense of Wellbeing - Resilience Skills - Session 5.
This six week course for parent-carers offers you the opportunity to explore some of the essential elements of wellbeing. Our personal and social wellbeing helps us to develop good relationships, feel connected to others and improves our resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
The course includes a blend of wellbeing and mindfulness worksh...
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Making Sense of Disability Living Allowance
A Free Online (Zoom) workshop delivered by Lizzie Batten from Amaze.
In this workshop you will find out how to apply for DLA (Disability Living Allowance), how the system works, the various rates and what other relevant benefits are available. This workshop will also be useful to parent/carers who are facing completing a renewal as it will provide you with up to date information. This will be an i...
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Making Sense of Wellbeing - Mindfulness: You...
Making Sense of Wellbeing - Resilience Skills - Session 6.
This six week course for parent-carers offers you the opportunity to explore some of the essential elements of wellbeing. Our personal and social wellbeing helps us to develop good relationships, feel connected to others and improves our resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
The course includes a blend of wellbeing and mindfulness worksh...
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Making Sense of Challenging Behaviour in...
This workshop delivered by Denise Snook, explores how your young person’s brain works, how hormones and puberty impact upon our children, how we can support them and respond to any challenging behaviour during their adolescent years to achieve positive outcomes.
To book your free place, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/146904177349
After booking - Once you have booked a place you wi...
I attended the Reaching Families workshop on Sensory Integration in Worthing led by Helen Cottell yesterday. This was time well spent as it was an excellent workshop full of really interesting, useful and relevant information, that covered practical advice as well as the theory behind it. Highly recommend, especially if you have a child with sensory issues.
Great course today about send support at school. Feel I have many more strings to my bow
A very big thank you to Reaching Families for organising the 'Making Sense of Benefits' workshop. Lizzie from Amaze who led the course was absolutely brilliant. Even if your child already gets DLA this workshop is still very useful. I now feel much more confident about tackling my daughters forms when it has to be renewed. Can't recommend it enough!