Parenting
Mothers’ Union Guildford has trained parenting facilitators since 2005. We currently have 4 facilitators working in the diocese. Our Parenting courses are open to everyone.
Parenting
Mothers’ Union Guildford has trained parenting facilitators since 2005. We currently have 4 facilitators working in the diocese. Our Parenting courses are open to everyone.
About
Our parenting courses are available to everyone and aim to empower parents to build the best possible relationships with their child/children.
We work with small groups of parents sometimes in the daytime or other times in the evening. The courses all aim to empower parents to build the best possible relationship with their child/children. We aim to enable parents to help their children meet their potential to become resilient, kind adults who can eventually function well and independently in society. The sessions are inclusive, fun and informative, providing time and a safe space for parents to be listened to and become even better parents.
Parenting for Faith
Parenting Courses in Prison
Mothers’ Union has projects in all the local prisons. Two of our facilitators join with the amazing Free Church prison chaplain at H.M.P. Send, to offer three, six-week parenting courses a year, for the ladies at Send. Recently we received this testimony from a lady we’ll call ‘J’ who attended one of our courses.
“The parenting course was really helpful, it would have been even more helpful had I had the opportunity to do it when my older children were little, as there were a lot of things I learned that would have been helpful to know when they were younger.
I wouldn’t have done the course if it hadn’t been held in the chapel and run by chaplaincy staff and volunteers. The chapel was my safe place and the chaplaincy team, my main support. I felt able and comfortable opening up without being judged.’
After missing a class for one week, one of the volunteers spent her lunch break giving me one to one time to catch up before the next class.
I started the course thinking it was pointless, as a single mother of four, I thought I knew it all, I left there not only learning that I didn’t know it all, but also learning a lot about parenting.
Every week we got to make something, from memory boxes to key rings, which was amazing as things like that don’t happen in prison.
The course has helped me to know what social services expect from me and helped me to maintain relationships and contact with my children since I came out too.”
Contact
For more details contact …….diana.parenting@gmail.com or karenrand@gmail.com
Other work we are involved in
Prison Work
Our parenting courses at HMP Send are adapted from Care for the Family courses, for prisoners who have contact with their children.
Action & Outreach
We support families in many ways throughout the diocese - from provide emergency toiletries bags to hospitals through to visiting prisons.
Women's Refuges
There are 5 women's refuges we support through the provision of household goods, toiletries, toys and financial aid.