Safe, Seen, Supported: A Therapeutic Parenting Approach for FASD

Safe, Seen, Supported is a two-day, in-person therapeutic parenting intervention for parents and carers of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This specialised FASD training offers expert guidance, practical strategies, and a supportive space to help you navigate the unique challenges of parenting a child with FASD. Through interactive sessions and group discussions, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of your child’s needs, develop effective techniques to support their well-being, and connect with others on a similar journey.

What does the FASD training cover?

  • Introduce parents to the underlying attachment and trauma and how this impacts families when coupled with FASD.
  • Work together through strategies for managing behaviours and increasing attachment using the workbook and resources.
  • Focus on each parent’s specific parenting style and concerns about their child
  • Deepen parental understanding
  • Develop new ways of addressing relationship challenges
  • Try strategies at home and feed back to the group
  • Develop mutual support between the parent group that can be sustained following the group

Course details:

Number of sessions: Two

Session length: 5 hours

Cost: £750 (VAT does not apply for this intervention)

Dates: Please check our upcoming events

Training is delivered by highly qualified clinical psychologists and therapists with many years’ experience working with trauma, attachment and FASD. Exercises, activities, video clips and discussions are used throughout the course to enhance the teaching and content.

Please note that this is an in-person course; it is not yet available online

The course takes place at our training space in Stoke-on-Trent, and offers a structured intervention that focuses on improving and deepening the relationships between parents and their child/children – increasing parental presence within families where FASD is present, in addition to attachment and trauma.

Requirements for the FASD training in Stoke-on-Trent

  • Parents and carers should wear comfortable clothes and shoes (e.g. leisurewear and trainers).
  • Light physical activity will be involved as mentioned above; please advise us of any disability/health requirements
  • Please note that the venue has stairs-only access
  • Tea/coffee/biscuits will be served, but you will need to bring your own lunch.
  • Please read all literature provided ahead of the course.
  • Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the session is due to start.
  • Please note – this is a parent-only course, children are not required to attend.

Upcoming Safe, Seen, Supported programmes

Safe, Seen, Supported: A Therapeutic Parenting Approach for FASD

30 June - 7 July

FAQs

Our FASD therapeutic parenting training courses are designed to be informative, interactive, and engaging, helping parents and carers better understand how to support children with FASD who have experienced early trauma, abuse, or neglect.

Each session includes expert input from highly qualified clinicians and combines teaching with practical learning. Participants will take part in small group and individual exercises, as well as group discussions, providing plenty of opportunities to explore key theories, develop new skills, and put strategies into practice in a supportive environment.

This course is facilitated over two sessions of 5 hours per session.

Training is delivered by highly qualified clinicians with many years’ experience working with FASD, trauma and attachment. Exercises, activities, video clips and discussions are used throughout the course to enhance the teaching and content.

The Safe, Seen, Supported intervention is hosted at our training space in Stoke-on-Trent. Participants will need to attend in person.

Safe, Seen, Supported is aimed at parents and carers of children and young people who have a diagnosis of FASD or expected diagnosis of FASD, and who have experienced trauma, abuse and neglect. It is particularly well suited to:

  • Adoptive parents
  • SGO carers
  • Kinship carers
  • Foster carers

Please note that attendance is mandatory for both session.

Each session builds upon the knowledge learned from the previous session and it is unfortunately not possible for us to catch up on missed sessions. We would not be able to issue a certificate of attendance if both of the sessions are not attended.

Social workers or other professionals are welcome to refer parents and carers to our Safe, Seen, Supported FASD course. Please get in touch with us by email to let us know you will be making a referral. We will ask you to fill out our referral form. We will arrange the registration forms with the participants.

Funding confirmation (full ASGSF approval and a purchase order) is usually required 4 weeks before the course start date. We cannot confirm places without full funding approval.

Yes, you are welcome to self-fund a place on our FASD courses. Payment is required before the course begins.

Please apply using the application form link sent to you by our admin team. Please note that we need your application form to secure a provisional place on the list. If we do not have your application form, you might not be able to attend.

If you are an adoptive parent, foster carer or special guardian, your place might be funded through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund. If this is the case, your social worker will need to approve your interest in the course and make an application to the ASGSF. Please contact your Local Authority or Regional Adoption Agency for more information.

Funding can take some time to be approved. It is usually best to arrange this well in advance of the funding deadline to avoid missing out.

Spaces are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.