Parents and carers
Parents and carers
Making a difference for you, with you
Our services are here to support you, parents and carers, every step of the way. On our webpages you will find tips and advice as well as information about services.
Find tips and advice Talk to someone
Visit our 0-19 team (health visitors and school nurses)
Young people
Young people
Here to support you
Our services are here for you. Whether you are looking for tips and advice, some tools to try and wish to support someone you will find what you need here on our website.
Visit our 0-19 team (school nurse)
Professionals
Professionals
Working alongside you
We work in partnership with professionals including healthcare colleagues, teachers, social workers and more. On these pages you will find out information about how to refer to our services:
Young people services blog
Ensuring home educated pupils access support
The school nursing service in Northamptonshire has established a new dedicated pathway to ensure home educated children do not fall through the gaps and have access to the support they need....
Parent’s Blog: Emotion Coaching and Children’s Behaviour
Sometimes my child kicks off spectacularly and it can leave me unsure what to do. Find out how emotion coaching helped this parent through......
Young person's blog: 19 years old, female, queer, recovering...managing?
Trigger warning: Mental health One of our young people talks through their story of reaching out to get help, you will find additional mental health support if you need it in this blog....
Parent’s Blog: Me, my partner and my personality disorder
Trigger warning: This article is a personal account of an experience with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from our co-production children, young people, carers and families group. ...
Top tips for writing a blog
You are an expert in your own experiences and can use that to reach out to others who might be going through something similar. ...
Welcome to the NHFT Children and Young People's Participation Blogs
Welcome to the NHFT Blogs! The participation team have been working with children, young people and parents/carers to hear what they want from the Children’s Services Website. You said you wa...
A parent’s survival guide to colic
As a first time mum, I had never even heard of the term colic before I had my little girl in 2019. I didn’t really know what it was or the impact it could have... Continue reading this blog p...
When Families Fight
When I was younger I used to lay in bed at night and listen to my parents arguing. It would always end the same with banging and clattering and shouting, and I would pull my covers over my head to try...
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