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Before I started the Par­ent Cham­pion course I was at my wits end with my life and my chil­dren. I had no rela­tion­ship with my eldest daugh­ter except shout­ing at one another. I felt a fail­ure as a mother and the life and rela­tion­ships I wanted was far away and I could not reach them. […]

I was in a really bad place with my three chil­dren, I’m a sin­gle Mum and they were all under five at the time and every day was a strug­gle. My part­ner was depen­dent on pre­scribed med­ica­tion and he also liked a drink and that wasn’t a good mix. His behav­iour was erratic and I […]

In the 12 months fol­low­ing the pilot of the Par­ent Cham­pion pro­gramme 18 par­ents com­pleted 2 courses, 2 more are now employed and 2 more are in train­ing. Teach­ers, health and social work­ers have noticed the dif­fer­ence our work has made to the chil­dren and fam­i­lies who have attended our programmes. Occa­sion­ally I bump into […]

Today I have a fab­u­lous job, fab­u­lous life and fab­u­lous friends. If you had asked me that two years ago then that would have been a dif­fer­ent story! I attended the Par­ent Cham­pion course as a pro­fes­sional per­son and really did not think it was for me and was hon­estly not going to return to […]

I was think­ing of what to write in regards to how your classes have helped and to be hon­est I don’t know where to start! As you can prob­a­bly remem­ber I came to your Empow­er­ing Par­ents (now Par­ent Cham­pion) course when E was one year old, gosh three years ago now! I was tired, bro­ken […]