PLACE parent support

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Welcome to PLACE

There is always a PLACE for parents and carers in children & young people’s mental health

PLACE provides a structured safe space to support individuals/organisations who are providing or establishing parent-carer support (PCPS) in CYPMH.

If you are looking for individual support please look at the interactive map below for parent carer support in your local area or our Get help now page. 

 

What is parent and carer peer support? 

 

About the PLACE Network

The PLACE Network aims to develop, promote and sustain parent and carer support (PCPS) and involvement in children and young people’s mental health across the UK. Parents and carers with lived experience of supporting a child with mental health issues and professionals with an interest in parent support meet monthly to share practice and ideas.

One of the key objectives of the PLACE Network is to connect existing parent and carer support groups/projects or those with an interest in developing one. Our interactive map below shows some of the mental health focused parent and carer support groups from around the country who are currently members.

 

PLACE Network Membership

Membership of the PLACE Network is free and is open to:

  • all those involved in existing parent support groups/projects focused on CYPMH
  • all those interested in establishing new parent support groups/projects focused on CYPMH
  • professionals with a remit and/or interest in supporting parent/carer support in CYPMH

 

Interested in joining the PLACE Network?

If you would like to join the PLACE network, please complete the PLACE Network Submission Form. 

 

PLACE Submission Form  

 

 

What do our PLACE members say?

 

 

For me PLACE came along at the most ideal time and became like a real bit of glue for me through the chaos of Covid. Being involved with PLACE has been really fundamental to my own personal growth and development, my own understanding.

PLACE member - Monica

Parent Carer Peer Support Courses

We are delighted to announce that we will be offering our full parent carer peer support course again starting in January 2025.   

Our PCPS training course is open to those working or volunteering as parent carer peer support workers, or parents and carers supported by local services who would like to train to become a PCPS worker. The course also delivers training sessions  for supervisors and for service managers. If you would like to hear more about this course, register your interest below!   

Parents and Carers 

Register your interest 

Services and Commissioners 

Register your interest

 

Want to know more about parent and carer peer support? Join our PCPS information and CPD sessions!

Would you like to know more about how parents and carers with lived experience can help others? There are a number of ways to get involved. Find out more at our information sessions and training courses.  

Events for parents and carers 

 

Are you a service or a commissioner wanting to improve your local offer to families and benefit your service? Find out more about how to grow parent carer peer support locally with our PCPS Information and CPD sessions for services and commissioners.  

Events for services and commissioners

 

 

Our Network members and interactive map

Find a group

National or online

Barnardos

CAMHS Network

Define Fine

Not Fine in School

Parents Online

North West

AWARE

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre ASK

Bradford District Foundation Care Trust

Breathe

Calm Connections

CHATS Morecambe & Lancaster

Fresh+ Group

Lancashire Positive Minds

Manchester Parent Champions/Regen Me

Mind over Natter

Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust

The Positivitree

Parents of the Revolution

Thornleigh College

We are with you

North East

Invictus Wellbeing

Kids Yorkshire

ReCoCo

Rollercoaster Family Support

Midlands

First Steps ED

SEND Friends

East Midlands

CAMHS Parent2Parent Support Group

Parents in Mind

SEND PaCT Notts

SEND Together

West Midlands

Dudley Parent Carer Forum

Hope Project

PEGiS

PEGS - Parental Education Growth Support

R.A.Y.S of H.O.P.E

South Staffs CAMHS Online Parent Support Group

Wales

Parents Voices in Wales

East Anglia

PACT Parents and Carers Together CIC

South West

Off the Record

Parental Minds CIC

South East

Aspects Together CIC

Breathe

Bromley Y

Future in Mind

Holding Space

HOPE (Harrow)

Learning Space

Let's Talk, Aeryn

Mental Health Natters

Mind and Body at We Are With You

MY Family 

New Maudsley Carers

North East London Foundation Trust CAMHS

The Re:Minds Group CIC

Unity

You're Never Alone CIC

Scotland

Glasgow

 

 

View all the regional groups on our interactive map:

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Aspects Together CIC
West Kent (map)
AWARE (Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource)
Airedale; Bradford area; Craven and Wharfedale (map)
Barnardos
Leeds/Bradford
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre ASK
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre (map)
Brighter Futures Together
National, Berkshire, Bucks
Bradford District Foundation Care Trust
Bradford (map)
Breathe
Saddleworth (map)
BREATHE Parent Support in Harrow
Harrow (map)
Bromley Y
Bromley (map)
Calm Connections CIC
Greater Manchester (map)
Calm Connections
Trafford / Greater Manchester (map)
CAMHS Network
Nationwide
CAMHS Parent2Parent Support Group
Derbyshire (map)
CHATS Morecambe & Lancaster
Morecambe & Lancaster (map)
Cognus
London Borough of Sutton (map)
Define Fine
Northampton and national
Dudley Parent Carer Forum
Dudley (map)
First Steps ED
Derby (map)
Fresh+ Group (Fresh Plus Group)
Liverpool / Sefton (map)
Future in Mind
Hampshire (map)
Greater Manchester Mental Health
Greater Mancheste (map)
Glasgow City HSCP NW Family Well-being Hub
Glasgow City (map)
Headroom Young People's Charity
NE Hants/ Surrey border areas (map)
HOPE (Harrow)
Harrow and surrounding boroughs (map)
Hope Project Staffordshire
Staffordshire (map)
Holding Space
Eastbourne & Sussex (map)
Invictus Wellbeing
Halifax and Bradford
Just Support
Macclesfield Borough (map)
KIDS Yorkshire
Yorkshire and Humber (map)
Lancashire Positive Minds
Lancashire (map)
Learning Space Parent Voice & Parent Anxiety Group
Surrey (map)
Let's Talk, Aeryn
Isle of Wight (map)
Life Skills Hub
Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire (map)
Manchester Parent Champions/Regen Me
Manchester (map)
Mental Health Natters
Abingdon (map)
Mind and Body at We Are With You
Kent (map)
Mind over Natter
Wirral (map)
New Maudsley Carers
Kent / National (map)
Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust
Kirklees (map)
Not Fine in School
Online
Off the Record (OTR)
North Somerset (map)
PACT Parents and Carers Together CIC
Suffolk (map)
The Positivitree
Wirral, Liverpool City Region (map)
Parents in Mind
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (map)
Parental Minds CIC
Devon (and South West) (map)
Parents of the Revolution
Blackpool & The Fylde (map)
Parents Online
Bradford (Serving across the UK) (map)
Parent Carer Foundation
Bournemouth/Dorset (map)
Parents Voices in Wales
All Wales but based in cardiff (map)
PEGiS
Stoke (map)
R.A.Y.S of H.O.P.E.
Newcastle under Lyme (map)
ReCoCo
Newcastle / Gateshead (map)
Rollercoaster Family Support
County Durham (map)
MyOTAS
Essex - Basildon district (map)
MY Family - peer support group
Thames Valley Bucks/Berks/Oxfordshire (map)
Neuro Thrive
Gloucestershire (map)
North East London Foundation Trust CAMHS
London (map)
PEGS - Parental Education Growth Support
Shropshire (map)
Parenting Special Children
National, Berkshire, Bucks
SEND PaCT Notts
Nottinghamshire (map)
SEND Together
Greater Nottingham (map)
SEND Friends
North East Lincolnshire
South Staffs CAMHs Online Parent Support Group
(map)
PYPT (Parents & Young People Together)
Reading & Wokingham (map)
Teesside Mind
Teeside Mind
The Re:Minds Group CIC
Southampton, Hampshire - also some projects with IoW, Portsmouth, Frimley (map)
Thornleigh College
Bolton (map)
The Bloom initiative
National based in Northumberland
Unity
Test Valley (map)
We are with you
Lancashire (map)
With Me In Mind
Rotherham (map)
You're Never Alone CIC
Croydon (map)

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