Further Support for Families
FAMILY ADVOCATE & SUPPORT
Transitioning to adult services & organising day opportunities is not an easy process, but at BOSP we can help!
This free, holistic service can help support you with:
- Enabling your young person to access BOSP's Skills 4 Life Weekday programme and other community services
- Submitting Carers Needs Assessments
- Obtaining a young person's personal budget
- Improving links with social care
- Helping you fill the gaps when your young person leave full-time education
Group, face to face and telephone support available with our friendly Family Advocate.
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.”
COFFEE & CONVERSATION - PEER SUPPORT GROUP
Coffee & Conversation is a chance for you to meet with other parents and carers of children and young people with SEND in a relaxed and informal setting along with Maria, BOSP’s Family Advocate.
The group will meet up every two weeks up to October half term on the following dates: Thursdays 12th September, 26th September, 10th October and 24th October 2024.
The group has been set up to provide an opportunity for parents and carers to come along for a coffee (or tea) and a chat with others who have lived experience of caring for a child or young person with SEND.
Meet up with others who have lived experience of caring for a child or young person with SEND or are just beginning their journey and would benefit from advice and help. A chance to share information, discuss what’s worked, what hasn’t, what you would do again or what you may do differently. Resources and signposting are available to take away on the day.
Please contact Maria at The BOSP Office for more information. Booking will be via Eventbrite.
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