Further Support for Families
BOSP FAMILY ADVOCACY FOR EARLY YEARS & TRANSITION INTO SCHOOL OR ADULT SERVICES
Maria, BOSP's Family Advocate is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
This free, holistic service can help support you with:
- advice and signposting
- liaising with professionals
- obtaining personal budgets
- requesting a Carers Needs Assessment
- improving links with social care
- speech & language
- education
- transport
- specialist equipment
- accessing BOSP’s Skills 4 Life Weekday Daytime programme and other community services
- helping you fill the gaps when your young person leaves full-time education
Face to face, online and telephone support available with our friendly Family Advocate.
BOSP's Family Advocate service is only for BOSP families and please note that our Family Advocate is not an advocate of law.
New BOSP family? Contact Maria at The BOSP Office to see how we may be able to support you.
Please email [email protected] or call The BOSP Office on 01268 553117.
“Thank you for the time to talk as you said it’s good to off load and with people who understand. Thank you so much for your time. I found it really helpful and although a bit emotional I took a lot away from it.”
COUNSELLING - support in the comfort of your own home or face-to-face
BOSP is able to offer Family Counselling to BOSP families.
BOSP truly understands the challenges of caring for a child or young person with a disability or life-limiting illness, the effects it can have on the entire family and the impact having a disability can have on an individual’s self-esteem and well-being.
BOSP offers counselling sessions with qualified Psychological Therapist/Integrative Counsellors. Sessions are available for parents or carers who have a child or young person with a disability, siblings (young carers), grandparents or the child/ young person with the disability or life-limiting illness.
Sessions take place virtually or face to face in Romford. Sessions are greatly subsidised thanks to funding from Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership and Angus Lawson Memorial Trust funding. If you would like to register your interest in this service, please call The BOSP Office on 01268 553117 or email [email protected] for more information.
Our counselling can support:
- parent carers
- couples
- siblings
- the child or young person with the disability/life-limiting illness