Fylde and Wyre children and family wellbeing service

Monday 1pm to 2pm, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks

Tuesday 1pm to 2pm, Sydney Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lytham-St-Annes

Wednesday 1pm to 2pm, Fleetwood Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street

The sessions will:

• help you to feel the relaxing effect of giving your baby a massage
• strengthen the bonding process
• build your confidence in handling your baby
• support your baby’s development in helping their physical needs if there is any tummy trouble, problems with bowel movement or trapped wind
• provide opportunities to meet other parent/carers, develop networks and peer support
• provide information about brain development, digestion, and nurturing relationships

Please bring a towel with you and please call to book a place.

Wednesday 1pm to 2.30pm, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks

Thursday 9.30am to 11am, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street

Thursday 1pm to 2.30pm, Sydney Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lytham-St-Annes

Friday 10.30am to 11.30am, Garstang Library, Windsor Road

Friday 1pm to 2.30pm, Thornton Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Heys Street

Meet and network with other new parents to share your experiences of caring for your baby together.

The sessions will:

• provide information about your child's ages and stages of development, particularly the growing brain and your crucial role in supporting this
• provide you with opportunities to play together and encourage positive play and interaction between you and your baby
• help you with any issues around bonding, connection and communication between you and your baby
• bring you together with other parents to prevent you from feeling socially isolated which is often a reality for new parents

Monday 10am to 11.30am, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street

Wednesday 10am to 11.30am, Thornton Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Heys Street

Wednesday 10am to 11.30am, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks

Friday 1pm to 2pm, Garstang Library, Windsor Road

We will provide groups in our centres where you can bring your child along to socialise and play alongside other children and parents.

The sessions will provide:

• high quality, well planned, stimulating and challenging activities across all ages from 0-5yrs based on child-initiated play both indoors and outdoors (where possible). This is guided by the Early Years Foundation Stage Development Matters
• information about how to nurture your child’s growing brain that supports their learning and development
• opportunities for physical play in a safe environment Support for you to play and enjoy some time together
• a chance to get involved in your child’s learning and development by actively observing and interacting with them whilst they play and as they reach important milestones
• a safe and secure environment for your child to develop their confidence, social and emotional skills and make friends
• ideas, activities and opportunities to continue, develop and expand play at home
• support for your child’s creativity and imagination and learning through roleplay
• support for you and your child if they have special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)
• support with your parenting if you need it
• information relevant to you as a family with young children including employment, training, childcare, health and wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, healthy relationships, early education and childcare
• the chance to meet with other families and make new relationships
• opportunities to participate and share your thoughts including your cultural and community values

Tuesday 1pm to 2.30pm, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street

Tuesday 1pm-2.30pm, Weeton Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Henderson Road

Thursday 9.30am to 11am, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks

Thursday 9.30am to 11am, Sydney Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lytham-St-Annes

High levels of good health and wellbeing are vital for children to be able to fully engage in play to learn. Our physical health and wellbeing activities for early years children are a brilliant resource to help guide them on their first steps to living well and boost your child's physical and motor development.

The sessions will:

• build confidence
• develop gross motor and fine motor skills
• improve speech and language skills
• build social skills - have fun together and make new friends
• introduce the benefits of adopting healthy lifestyles

Monday 10am to 11.30am, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks

Tuesday 10am 11.30am, Weeton Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Henderson Road

Thursday 1pm- to 2.30pm, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street

A special group to support your child's speech and language. These skills support other areas of their learning and development such as:

• listening and understanding
• verbal and non-verbal communication
• language development

The sessions will:

• provide a strong foundation for school (for example children with proficient speech and language skills are likely to find it easier to learn to read)
• help build confidence
• enable children to communicate their needs better (and therefore reduce frustration)
• help the development of friendships
• give children a chance to build a love for words, books and stories
• help children make sense of the world around them
• provide opportunities to read and share books together, exploring the fun, rhythms and excitement of words and stories
• support your child’s listening skills by reading aloud to them and support you to do the same
• encourage children to join in song and rhyme, learning new words in a fun and friendly way
• encourage children to use language in their play, describing, predicating, sharing ideas and explaining
• encourage children to play and socialise together
• support you as a parent with ideas of how you can support your child’s speech and language development
• recognise when there may be a delay in your child’s speech and language and signpost to specialist support if it is needed

Friday 9:30am-11:30am, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street  

The sessions will help you to prepare for parenthood including:

• safer sleep for your baby
• support on feeding your baby
• how to ensure your home is safe and ready for your baby
• support with how to care for your newborn's needs, including practical demonstrations on bathing and changing nappies
• the importance of communication and talking to your baby and how this supports the developing brain
• strategies for coping with a crying baby Baby’s cry, you can cope (ICON)
• early Play
• Me you and Baby Too digital app, how a new baby may impact your relationship with strategies for healthy communication
• smoking and 'Smoke Free Homes'

Please call to book your place.

Monday 3.30pm to 4.30pm, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street 

Wednesday 3.30pm to 4.30pm, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks  

Friday 3.30pm to 4.30pm, Thornton Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Heys Street

Friday 3.30pm to 4.30pm, Garstang Library, Windsor Road

We provide targeted support for children of primary school age. Your child may be:

• struggling to express and manage their emotions
• have low self confidence and self-esteem
• presenting with anxious behaviours

By creating a safe space, your child will have the opportunity to take part in evidence-based activities including scenarios and role play, breathing and stretching exercises, TV and video clips, arts and craft, fun and games.

The sessions will help children to:

• explore wishes and feelings and understand worries
• look at a range of strategies to help manage strong emotions
• take part in a range of creative and physical activities to encourage positive play and interaction between children and their peers
• build confidence and social skills
• meet new people and make new friends
• explore and understand the impact of their behaviour on others
• think about, understand and appreciate that we are all unique and different

Please call to book your place.

Tuesday 3.30pm to 4.30pm, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street 

Wednesday 3.30pm to 5pm, Thornton Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Heys Street

Thursday 3.30pm to 5pm, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks 

If you have any concerns about your child's overall health and wellbeing that is not connected to any diagnosed condition, we have sessions that support you and your child adopting healthy lifestyles.

Many children can be put off by PE at school and can feel excluded from participating. It may be too competitive or slightly threatening particularly if there are large groups with mixed abilities and they feel shy or have lower self-esteem.

We will provide a safe, sensitive and nurturing space for children to meet and have fun together, promoting physical play and activity. We will provide information on their growing body and how to adopt healthy lifestyles including healthy eating.

The sessions will help children to:

• build their confidence to take part in physical play and exercise
• get information to understand how diet and exercise effect their growing bodies
• build their social skills, have fun together and make new friends
• think about adopting healthy lifestyles, balancing activity time with screen time

Please call to book your place.

Tuesday 3.30pm to 5pm, Sydney Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lytham to St-Annes

Friday 1.15pm to 2:45pm, Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks 

We provide sessions in our centres for children with physical, learning, behavioural or emotional difficulties. We offer an inclusive environment, with opportunities for learning, development and support.

This is also where parents and carers have the opportunity to meet and make new friends and share experiences with those going through similar joys and challenges. There will also be information to hand about professional support so you can find out about other agencies, groups and services.

The sessions will help children to:

• be confident in expressing themselves
• experience positive social opportunities and interactions
• access learning and development opportunities
• receive peer support as well as signposting to specialist services for their parents and carers
• find a safe, inclusive place to be themselves

Please call to book your place.

Children do not come supplied with a handbook, most of the time we feel our way along the parenting journey hoping that we are getting it right, crossing our fingers, that our children will grow up happy, healthy and fulfilled.

It is not an easy job and many of us can feel out of depth and overwhelmed, finding that our children’s behaviour is not what we expected, challenging and difficult to manage.

If you are struggling with being a parent, the evidence based, structured Triple P parenting course could be the answer for you.

Please call to book your place.

Wednesday 10am to 12pm, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street 

Friday 9.30am to 11.30am, Sydney Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lytham to St-Annes

For parents who have children with a disability or other additional needs up to 12 years old.

This involves, 9 sessions (5 weekly sessions, 3 weeks of telephone support then a final week).

This course will assist you if you have specific concerns about your child's behaviour or development. You are most likely to benefit if your family is not complicated by significant behaviour problems or stress.

The course covers:

• positive parenting for children with a disability
  • creating a positive learning environment
  • using assertive discipline
  • having reasonable expectations
  • looking after yourself as a parent
  • adapting to having a child with a disability
  • being part of your community
• helping your child reach their potential - promoting your child’s development by teaching them new skills and behaviours; this explores
  • choosing a skill to teach
  • breaking skills into steps
  • choosing rewards
  • deciding on strategies
  • keeping track and reviewing

Please call to book your place.

Tuesday 9.30am to 11.30am, Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street

All families have arguments, it is part of how we negotiate, make decisions, understand each other and live together. This is constructive and children learn from seeing how arguments are resolved. However, when arguments become frequent, intense and poorly resolved it is destructive conflict and children suffer from being exposed to it. There is support on hand and we would encourage you to come along and give this course a go if you find yourself entrenched in ongoing destructive conflict with your partner.

This is a course of 6 weekly sessions, couples are encouraged to attend together. The course aims to work in a solution focused way, enabling and empowering you as a couple to understand your conflict and see how to resolve the issues yourselves, rather than relying on a practitioner for solutions.

The sessions will include:

• the effects of conflict on parents and children, and the causes of conflict
• the stages of relationship development, how our existing vulnerabilities can make us more susceptible to conflict and the different perspective we bring to our relationships
• constructive and destructive communication
• thoughts, feelings and behaviours
• the feelings wheel, problems and issues
• better communication – expectations and reality, goal setting

Please call to book your place.

Tuesday 6.30pm to 8.30pm Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks, Kirkham

Supporting young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), games, quizzes, music and fun.

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.

Tuesday 6pm to 9pm Fleetwood FC at Milton Street

Thursday 6.30pm to 9.30pm Fleetwood FC at Milton Street

Friday 6pm to 9pm Garstang centre and surrounding areas

Fun and interactive activities and discussions with young people out in the communities where they live, young people will lead the focus of the work.

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.

Wednesday 6.30pm-8.30pm Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street, Fleetwood

Supporting young people along with the Child and Adolescent Support and Help Enhanced Response (CASHER) team, providing support for positive wellbeing and mental health.

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.

Wednesday 6.30pm-8.30pm Fleetwood Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Milton Street, Fleetwood

A group to support north participation, discuss local projects and issues.

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.

Wednesday 6.30pm-8.30pm Garstang Community Academy, Garstang, PR3 1YE (drop in) 

Supporting young people along with the Child and Adolescent Support and Help Enhanced Response (CASHER) team, providing support for positive wellbeing and mental health.

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.

Wednesday 6.30pm-8.30pm Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks, Kirkham

Thursday 6.30pm-8.30pm Sydney Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lytham-St-Annes

Supporting young people in the local area along with the Child and Adolescent Support and Help Enhanced Response (CASHER) team (drop in).

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.

Wednesday 6.30pm-8.30pm Fylde Children and Family Wellbeing Services, Chapel Walks, Kirkham

Group to support north participation, discuss local projects and issues.

For more information contact Jasmine on 07929722375 or Emma on 07825366651.