Parenting Support

Getting to know your baby in the womb can be an important part of bonding with your child. This course includes the traditional information you might expect from an antenatal course with information on preparing to give birth, welcoming and comforting your new baby alongside thinking about your emotional health and helping you to reflect on ways to connect with your baby.

9 modules reflecting a 6 week in-person antenatal course

For mothers, fathers, carers and grandparents, anyone in your new baby’s bubble

Also with professional translations in Modern Standard Arabic, Polish, Welsh, and Urdu.

Sharing experiences from women couples expecting a baby, this course includes the traditional information you might expect from an antenatal course with information on preparing to give birth, welcoming and comforting your new baby alongside thinking about your emotional health and helping you to reflect on ways to connect with your baby.

9 modules reflecting a 6 week in-person antenatal course

For mothers, partners, carers and grandparents, anyone in your new baby’s bubble

Understanding your baby’s physical and emotional development can help you to develop a nurturing relationship supporting them to thrive. This course includes the traditional information you might expect from a postnatal course relating to sleeping, feeding, crying and playing with additional information on the importance of relationships for your baby’s brain growth and development.

11 modules reflecting a 6-8 week in person course

For mothers, fathers, carers and grandparents, anyone in your new baby’s bubble

Also with professional translations in Urdu, Modern Standard Arabic and Welsh.

A supportive resource to help parents develop a close and connected relationship with their baby when they find themselves managing a range of emotions and a busy clinical care environment. The course includes supportive guidance around baby development milestones relating to feeding, sleeping and crying and helpful signposts informed by parents with shared experience

For parents and families experiencing neonatal care for their babies in hospital

A supportive resource to help parents develop a close and connected relationship with their baby while considering the additional worries related to additional specialist baby care. The course includes supportive guidance around baby development milestones relating to feeding, sleeping and crying and helpful signposts informed by parents with shared experience.

For parents and families settling in at home with their preterm or sick baby

No matter your family set up the important relationships in your child’s life help shape their emotional health and wellbeing. This transformative course offers a reflective space to think about your child’s development, their behaviour and how they are communicating. It is created by clinical psychologists, child psychotherapists, and family practitioners in partnership with parents who share their experiences.

Recognised by the Early Intervention Foundation, 11 modules reflecting a 10 week in person course

For all parents, carers and grandparents of children aged up to 19

Also with professional translations in Bulgarian, Welsh, Modern standard Arabic, Polish, simplified Chinese, Somali and Urdu.

Understanding your child and their additional needs or different abilities can make it easier to work with your child’s behaviour as well as supporting their development. This course looks at some particular aspects of parenting: sleeping and anger management, together with more about how we interact with each other. It follows the same principles of the other Solihull Approach courses and is informed by parents in similar circumstances.

For parents and families of children who may have additional needs or are differently abled and those who may have a disability (physical or learning)

Our brains develop rapidly in adolescence changing the way we feel, express ourselves and behave. This short course helps explain some of the changes you might have noticed in your teenage and helps you think about support you may be able to offer

For all parents, carers and grandparents of teenagers

Also with professional translations in Urdu, Modern Standard Arabic, and Welsh.

Written for teenagers with teenagers. Our brains develop rapidly in adolescence changing the way we feel, express ourselves and behave. This courses shares some of the science behind this and may help you process some of your feelings and how they’re changing.

For teens, adolescents, and young adults

Written for teenagers with teenagers. You may be feeling overwhelmed, confused, anxious or frustrated, this course is designed to help you recognise and manage your feelings

For teens, adolescents, and young adults

Nurturing mental health and wellbeing can be difficult to navigate, this course builds on fundamental principles in the understanding your child courses as the corner stones of mental health to explore particular mental health issues and support.

13 and 15 units to follow in addition to our understanding your child course

For all parents, carers and grandparents of children from 0 to 19

Relationships can be difficult, complicated, fun, satisfying, exciting, annoying, bring out the best in us, bring out the worst in us. We are often in one, but we don't often spend much time on them. An introduction to key themes around emotional wellbeing, communicating feelings, and managing conflict or anger with activities to support the relationships that mean the most to you

For everybody!

The pandemic was especially challenging for teenagers who experienced significant disruption to their lives during a period of rapid emotional development. This short course encourages reflective thinking to empathise with your teenager’s emotional wellbeing as an introduction to our courses in mental health

Short course typically taking just 30 minutes to follow

For all parents, carers and grandparents of children of teenagers

While many of us have tried to move on quickly from the pandemic to resume the restriction-free lives we cherished, it may not be as easy for your child who may have experienced it differently. This short course encourages reflective thinking to empathise with your child’s emotional wellbeing as an introduction to our courses in mental health.

Short course typically taking just 30 minutes to complete

For all parents, carers and grandparents of children of primary school age (4-11)