Family Services Expand SEND Parent Carer Forum Friendly and welcoming group of local parents and carers of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, aged 0-25. Location: N15 5BNContact: [email protected] | [email protected] Website Ezer Leyoldos Short and long term support packages to Orthodox Jewish (Charedi) families with children under 18 or 25 years for young people with disabilities. Have an ‘out of hours’ facility to respond to crises. Location: N16 5RNContact: [email protected] | 020 8880 2488 Website CARIS Haringey Support to families with no recourse to public funds. Advice and advocacy support on housing, benefits and immigration. English language classes. Summer play schemes. Weekly drop-in sessions for parents, carers, and children - meet up and enjoy play time, activities, workshops, and music. Location: St Pauls Annexe, N17 0JR. Sessions at St Ann’s Church hall, N15 5JHContact: 02088013004 Website Citizens Advice Haringey Confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Information and support on issues relating to Debt and Money, Energy advice, Benefits, Housing, Consumer, Work, Health and Social Care, and Family and Relationships. Location: N17 7DNAdvice line: 0808 278 7966 Website Haringey Community Food Network Emergency food provision: food banks, community kitchens, plus veg box schemes, growers, delivery services. You can access the Food Support Map to find your local community food group; you can search using the map, by postcode or simply using the list to find details of how to access these services. Website Home-Start Haringey, Hackney and Waltham Forest Home visiting intervention, friendship, practical and emotional support (2-4 hours per week) to families under stress and experiencing difficulties, and family crisis. Upskilling programme of training and personal development for volunteers, most of whom are parents. Location: N17 7QAContact: 020 8352 4151 | [email protected] Website
Children's Services Expand Wheely Tots Programmes & activities promote healthy, confident, resilient communities through improving connections to each other and the outdoors. For families, children and young people these include: Parent and Toddler (ages 2-4) balance bike sessions Family Bike Club for 4+ year olds and adults to learn to ride / improve skills Women and Girls (13+) bike rides Book your session on EventbriteLocation: Lordship Rec, N17 6NUContact: 07397 902255 | [email protected] Website Groundswell Arts Creative education programmes for 0-11 year olds, their families and teachers, incorporating music, art, theatre, storytelling, dance and film making. Location: N4 3EXContact: [email protected] Website Haringey Learning Partnership Support schools to enable learners of all ages to make changes and thrive in mainstream settings. Work collaboratively with learners, staff and parents/carers using a trauma informed approach to add pastoral and leadership capacity. Find out more about their outreach services hereReferral forms hereContact: 0208 829 9846 Website Markfield After school clubs and holiday playschemes where disabled and non-disabled children play together. Free specialist advice on topics such as: disability benefits, behaviour support, transition to adulthood. Parent group coffee mornings and a monthly family club. Location: N15 4RBContact: 0208 800 4134 | [email protected] Website
Youth Services Expand Hope in Haringey Enhancing the life chances of Haringey's young people. Services include: counselling in 27 schools; One to one employability mentoring; Youth work by doing diversionary football; and Police engagement. Download flyer here Location: N17 8AAContact: 020 8809 3411 Website Paths Through Change Promotes the rights of Children and Young People who are experiencing divorce or relationship breakdown in their families. Provides specialist support services including advocacy and befriending schemes and events. You can find out more about the services here Contact: [email protected] Website Sister System New model of working with girls and young women (13-24 years old) who have been affected by the care system (in care, care leaver or cusp of care), providing eight tailored programmes designed to embed essential skills, tools and strategies that enables them to avoid or recover from the unique risks girls affected by care face. Location: N17 8AAContact: 020 8059 1055 | [email protected] Website
Mental Health Expand Open Door Free psychological therapies for young people aged 12 to 24. Therapies can help with a range of concerns, including problems at home, school, college, work, difficulties with family and friends, issues with drugs or alcohol, depression, anxiety, self-harm, anger or violence. Download flyer here Parenting Teenagers Project allows parents to talk in confidence with a trained professional, providing space to think, talk and be heard. Download flyer here Location: N8 8PLContact: 020 8348 5947 | [email protected] Website Mind in Haringey Advocacy and social prescribing, peer support, and wellbeing activities to adults and young people 16+ year olds. Aims to develop young people’s understanding of their own wellbeing, providing them with tools to improve their emotional resilience. Referral forms here Location: N4 3QFContact: 0208 340 2474 (option 1) | [email protected] Website