Families

Therapeutic Support for Adoptive Parents, Special Guardians and Families

It can be hard to know how to respond when your adoptive child is finding change difficult. Our highly trained and clinically-supervised professionals help adoptive and kinship families build and strengthen relationships, including those affected by past trauma. Click the link below to find out more our full range of post-adoption services and resources, including our bespoke packages of support.

For Practitioners

Looking to support a family? Contact us to talk through their needs and request a proposal to help you apply for funding.

Individual Family Therapy

In person • Funded

We offer relational and play therapies for families who have no other means of access. With our individual family therapy, you can access expert therapeutic support to make sense of your child's needs and strengthen relationships. UK-based, available in the West Midlands. All of the support delivered by Beacon Family Services is inclusive and suitable for all families, including those with diagnosed and / or undiagnosed neurodiversity.

Connect for Kids: Group Theraplay®

In person • Funded

Some children need extra support with social and emotional development. Playing with parents and peers in these sessions can build children's confidence and resilience.

Connect for Parents

In person • Funded

Feeling alone as you face your parenting struggles? Ease your sense of isolation with support and new parenting ideas to build positivity and resilience.

Connect for Parents brings together small groups of parents and carers in a supportive space, with time to pause and reflect alongside others who understand how family life can really feel.

Each session is guided by an experienced therapist and shaped around themes that reflect the challenges that come up in everyday parenting.

Peer Support Community:
Walking with Families

Online • For adoptive families experiencing CCVAB

Parenting a child with experience of early adversity that has travelled through the care system can be difficult. Many families experience challenging, violent and aggressive behaviour from their children and this experience leaves many adoptive parents isolated and struggling.

This is an online support group on Facebook for adoptive parents. Join a peer community where you can share lived experience, challenges, strategies and mutual support. Facilitated by Al Coates MBE, this active and supportive group shares resources and lived experiences to help ease isolation and help adoptive parents feel seen and heard.

Email Al Coates MBE to register your interest or ask for more info: al.coates@beaconservices.org.uk

Project Salam
Online • Funded

Project Salam is a family relationship support programme for refugee families in Birmingham resettling from Afghanistan, Ukraine and Syria.

We offer family support and translated resources for Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Ukrainian speaking families.

Being a parent

• On being a 'good enough' parent
• Trying to manage your child's connection and comfort 24/7?
• Not a calm parent? Not everyone can be.

Supporting your child in education and school

• Back to school transition tips (shared from Adoption UK with permission)
• Managing after school overwhelm
• How to use Pupil Premium school support for care-experienced children

Parenting tips and help with strengthening relationships

• Managing sibling relationships
• How to get your kid to sleep
• Why feeling safe is important
• The benefits of outdoor play and den building
• Using the lumin&us® app when your child is struggling

Polyvagal theory and your child's needs and behaviours

• How to tell if your child is safe, struggling or drowning
• Understanding your child's behaviours
• Why do we misread faces? A guide to neuroception
• Why do children spin around and turn upside down?

Mental health and neurodivergence

• What to do while waiting for CAMHS as a parent
• Low demand parenting with neurodivergent children
• Emotional navigation and regulation