The Ministry of Parenting
Promoting Creativity in Parenting
We are a Colchester-based company that works to support children, young people, parents, professionals, and organisations. To date, our main activities has been the delivery of a range of parenting groups/workshops, young people’s workshops, one to one parent coaching and professional parent programme training. We have supported parents, young people, and professionals on all aspects of parenting i.e., ADHD, self-harm, tantrums, positive discipline, managing the teenager years and separation issues.
Our TEEN FLASH (young peoples self harm project ) website .. click here to view site TEEN FLASH website
Parenting and Young People’s Groups
Over the past few years, we have been proud to deliver a range of parenting and young people’s group programmes through grant funding. These programmes have provided valuable support to many families and young people across our communities.
At present, our funding for group projects has come to an end, and we are therefore temporarily unable to accept referrals for our parenting and young people’s groups, with the exception of our FLASH parent workshops.
We are continuing to run FLASH workshops on a fee-paying basis and have worked hard to keep costs as low as possible to ensure they remain accessible to families. For more information on our FLASH workshops please see FLASH (Families Learning About Self Harm) Workshops – Ministry of Parenting
We have submitted applications for further funding and remain hopeful that all programmes will resume in the near future. This page will be updated with information about upcoming groups, locations, and referral processes as soon as funding is confirmed.
In the meantime, our online parent resources remain available free of charge.
Training for Professionals
We continue to offer a range of high-quality training programmes for professionals, supporting those working with children, young people, and families. Our current training offer includes:
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Incredible Years® programmes
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STOP
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FLASH (Families Learning About Self-Harm)
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SHARPS (Supporting Holistic Approaches – Risk, Parents & Self-Harm)
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Teen FLASH professional training ( Teen FLASH is a specialist group programme designed for young people aged 11–16 who are engaging in self-harming behaviours. Our training equips professionals with the knowledge and skills to deliver this programme within their own services.)
To find out more about upcoming training dates or to discuss training for your team, please contact us.
The funding for the trainings has mainly come from service commissioning. We have streamlined our outgoings to ensure we can offer our trainings at the lowest cost possible without compromising the quality of the training. Profit from the trainings support us in being able to
- Offer training discounts to charities and not for profit organisations
- Signpost families to groups
- Provide Incredible Years resources to charities in Essex & Kent
- Provide Incredible Years, STOP and FLASH one to one support to professionals.
- Continued to develop resources for the SHARPS online training workbook.
- Create and develop the Teen FLASH online resources
- Update the STOP manual
- Provide free train the trainer pathway in the STOP and FLASH programmes.
