Parental Minds gives support to families who are struggling with their mental health. We believe that the parental voice is vital when families are living with mental health issues; this underpins all our work.
Parental Minds Support guides & Directories
Parental Minds support guides are developed through lived experience with professional input and the voices of family members. They are the foundations of the support we deliver through Parent+ Support Hub. Each support guide is the result of a question being asked to Parental Minds or through Parent+ Support Hub and researchers at the University of Exeter have supplied supporting evidence where this exists.
Our Directories allow us to offer informed navigation to services, based on the lived experience of those we support and the Health Care Professionals that work alongside us.
The Parent+ Support Hub is for Caregivers who support family, friends or colleagues with mental health issues. Mental Health Caregivers are a family member, friend or colleague (18+ years) that is supporting someone (of any age) with mental health issues.
Parental Minds Counselling is available to all Parents/Carers and young adults.
Our catchment area is Exeter & East Devon. We offer open-ended weekly sessions, Face to face, telephone or virtual and ask for a weekly donation that is affordable, to be agreed in advance
Sharing Parental Voices
Sharing Parental Voices in the research and development of local and national services; with a particular interest in those who use risky behaviour to tolerate distress.
We share opportunities for you to share your own experience. Some Caregivers find it therapeutic to join ‘participation’ groups. We share these opportunities through our newsletters and social media. We also take themes from our Parent+ members to local and national research projects.
Skills workshops
Our skills workshops are developed from our support guides. We offer these on a monthly basis, online and they last between 90 minutes to 2 hours.
Schools/organisations
We offer various support packages for schools/organisations
We also offer support to Caregivers of those who use SELF-HARM to tolerate their distress, including 1st aid training. We are developing support material through research work with Coventry University, please contact us to review this information.