* Trafford Sunrise - Children's Emotional Wellbeing and Support for Parents

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In line with the Thrive model, Trafford Sunrise offers support at level 1 (Getting Advice) and level 2 (Getting Help).

Parent Workshops

Trafford Sunrise is commissioned to deliver drop-in workshops to families in the community. This is a universal provision and referrals for workshops are not required. These are held both online and face to face in community venues. Workshop topics may include anxiety, behavioural difficulties, parental separation and divorce, and bullying amongst others. Parents can be signposted to themed parent workshops. Information about workshops is shared frequently including details of dates and topics.

For families needing focused goals-based input, a referral can be made to Trafford Sunrise by the child’s GP, Paediatrician or via an Early Help Assessment. The criteria for referrals to Trafford Sunrise are:

  • Child is age 5-12 years at referral
  • Trafford resident/Trafford GP
  • Mild to moderate emotional or behavioural difficulties
  • Not actively self-harming or expressing suicidal ideation
  • Not currently receiving support from CAMHS (unless being supported through a diagnostic pathway)
  • Parent/carer is able to engage in group-based support
  • This service is not suitable for families being supported by social care at either Child in Need or Child Protection level (level 4) or children who are care experienced (Level 5) (Please follow this link for more information Trafford levels of need for social care support | Trafford Directory )

See attached flyer for thw workshops timetable. 

Early Support Groups

Once a referral is accepted by Trafford Sunrise, parents are initially offered an Early Support Group. The Early Support Group is an online group for parents (without the children) and consists of two sessions focusing on anxiety, behaviour and emotional regulation. The aim of these sessions is to provide some useful information based on research evidence and consider some strategies to support the child. Parents have reported finding it helpful to have some space to reflect on the issues they are dealing with and to understand some psychological principles relating to emotional regulation, anxiety and behaviour. Early Support Groups are held online on Zoom.

Working Together Groups

Once parents have completed an Early Support Group, they will then be offered a Working Together Group which they attend together with their child for 6 weeks in a community venue in Trafford. Working Together groups are facilitated either by a Practitioner Psychologist, Mental Health Practitioner, Psychotherapist or Assistant Psychologist. The groups usually have between 5 and 10 children in them, categorized by age. Both child and parent are expected to attend each group.

Typically, groups will cover the following (this is not exhaustive)

  • Recognising and understanding feelings
  • Strategies and resources to cope with difficult feelings
  • The purpose of the group is to support children and parents to develop skills which will help the children deal with stressors in their lives. 
  • The group encourages children, parents and facilitators to work together to develop strategies which will support the children through their difficulties.

Trafford Sunrise is predominantly commissioned to deliver group-based interventions and has only a very limited resource to provide 1:1 support on an exceptional basis determined by clinical need. We have a lot of experience of delivering group-based approaches and work really hard to support both parents and children to feel comfortable in a group. We find that most families are able to benefit from this approach.  

For enquiries, please contact:

sunrise@justpsychology.co.uk

 

 

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Who is it for?

Ages
  • Children aged 5-12 and their parents
Eligibility Details

Children experiencing emerging mild to moderate problems with emotional wellbeing.

Accessibility

Details

We aim to use community venues that are accessible to all.

Costs

Details
This service is commissioned by Trafford Council and is free to families.

Availability

Referral Required?
Yes
Referral Details

Children and families must be referred to Trafford Sunrise by a professional.  Professionals could be a GP or other health professional, social worker, teacher, psychologist, education welfare officer, family support worker etc.

Professionals: Referrals can be made directly to our service using the Early Help Assesment or Trafford Sunrise GP and Paediatric Referral forms. Please note that old referral forms will not be accepted. Please send a request to the email below to obtain a copy of the new form.

Please send us your electronic referral to sunrise@justpsychology.co.uk via a secure platform (e.g Egress).

Referrals are not required for our Parent Workshops.

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