PLACE Parent Support

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Welcome to the PLACE parent support hub

The PLACE Network aims to develop, promote and sustain parent and carer support 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

If you'd like to add your group to this list, please submit the details here.

 

 

Thinking about setting up a group or project in your area or attached to your service?

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Life savers. No more words to describe the value of parent peer support

Government 10-year mental health plan

PLACE responded to the government call for evidence for their new 10-year plan to improve mental health

Read the PLACE response here

 

‘Value the importance of Peer Supporters and the impact this can have on care and treatment. Value and utilise experts by experience as a resource and professional that can influence and impact on outcomes.’

 

 

 

 

 

PLACE member Monica said:

“Being involved with PLACE has been really fundamental to my own personal growth and development, my own understanding. 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.”

 

 

 

 

 

All members of the PLACE network:

North West

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre ASK

Bradford District Foundation Care Trust

Breathe

Calm Connections

CHATS Morecambe & Lancaster

Fresh+ Group

Lancashire Positive Minds

Mind over Natter

Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust

Parents of the Revolution

Thornleigh College

We are with you

North East

ReCoCo

Rollercoaster Family Support

Midlands

First Steps ED

East Midlands

CAMHS Parent2Parent Support Group

Parents in Mind

West Midlands

Dudley Parent Carer Forum

PEGiS

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

Parental Minds CIC

South East

Breathe

Holding Space

HOPE (Harrow)

Learning Space

Let's Talk, Aeryn

Mental Health Natters

Mind and Body at We Are With You

New Maudsley Carers

Unity

National or online

CAMHS Network

Define Fine

Not Fine in School

Parents Online

 

 

View all the regional groups on our interactive map:

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Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre ASK
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre (map)
Bradford District Foundation Care Trust
Bradford (map)
Breathe
Saddleworth (map)
Breathe
Harrow, Hillingdon, Brent (map)
Calm Connections
Trafford / Greater Manchester (map)
CAMHS Network
Nationwide
CAMHS Parent2Parent Support Group
Derbyshire (map)
CHATS Morecambe & Lancaster
Morecambe & Lancaster (map)
Define Fine
Online - not on map
Dudley Parent Carer Forum
Dudley (map)
First Steps ED
Derby (map)
Fresh+ Group (Fresh Plus Group)
Liverpool / Sefton (map)
Holding Space
Eastbourne & Sussex (map)
HOPE (Harrow)
Harrow and surrounding boroughs (map)
Lancashire Positive Minds
Lancashire (map)
Learning Space Parent Voice & Parent Anxiety Group
Surrey (map)
Let's Talk, Aeryn
Isle of Wight (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
PACT Parents and Carers Together CIC
Suffolk (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)
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)
South Staffs CAMHs Online Parent Support Group
(map)
Thornleigh College
Bolton (map)
Unity
Test Valley (map)
We are with you
Lancashire (map)

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