Support for families

How Clear Sky supports families

Clear Sky supports parents and carers with play-based skills to support children’s emotional wellbeing and enhance the parent/carer-child relationship.

Find out more about our groups for parents and carers.

We provide FREE play resources for parents and support schools.

We provide direct therapeutic support in schools and organisations across Oxfordshire. Please contact us for information.

We also have practitioners who provide parenting groups in community settings outside of Oxfordshire please find a local practitioner here.

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Resources for Parents and Carers

We have completely free resources for parents and carers to donwload and use at home with your children. Including our Parents Play Kit which is full of playful tips and ideas to help you support your child’s wellbeing.

You can find tools that support with communication with little ones, to best help them process challenging feelings.

You’ll also find games that can strengthen the relationship between you and your child, as well as allow you to have lots of fun.  

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Our groups for parents and carers

Mentoring
Mentoring

We offer online mentoring for all our Attachment Play Practitioners who have completed Parent-Child Attachment Play (PCAP), Baby Bonding or Heart to Heart training. Read more →

Fundraising for Good
Fundraising for Good

'Fundraising for Good', the ultimate guide to kickstart YOUR fundraising efforts to help deliver projects that benefit your local community and wider society. Read more →

Parent Child Attachment Play (PCAP) for Parents and Carers
Parent Child Attachment Play (PCAP) for Parents and Carers

Parent-Child Attachment Play (PCAP) helps parents to strengthen the relationship between themselves and their children through dedicated weekly play times to reduce emotional and behavioural challenges. Read more →

Heart to Heart for Parents and Carers
Heart to Heart for Parents and Carers

Heart to Heart is based on the latest attachment research which shows that supporting the parent-child attachment relationship sets the scene for the best outcomes for children right into adulthood. Read more →

Baby Bonding for Parents and Carers
Baby Bonding for Parents and Carers

Baby Bonding is a very effective preventative and early help attachment programme for parents and carers, and their babies. Read more →

Playful Parents Services for Schools
Playful Parents Services for Schools

A relaxed series of workshops for a group of 6 – 8 parents commissioned by schools, social care teams, children’s centres or other organisations and help strengthen their relationship with their child. Read more →

Supporting Children’s Mental Health Through Play INSET Training
Supporting Children’s Mental Health Through Play INSET Training

This course provides theoretical understanding of trauma and attachment and gives strategies to support children in the classroom. Read more →

Adult Child Attachment Play (ACAP) Professional CPD
Adult Child Attachment Play (ACAP) Professional CPD

Adult-Child Attachment Play (ACAP) is an innovative early help model that focuses on strengthening the adult/carer – child relationship. Read more →

Baby Bonding Professional CPD
Baby Bonding Professional CPD

Baby Bonding is an early help programme that guides and empowers parents and carers to develop secure relationships with their babies. Read more →

Heart to Heart Professional CPD
Heart to Heart Professional CPD

Heart to Heart is suitable for practitioners working closely with parents/carers of children/teens (or other adult). Practitioners can deliver this in 1:1, in groups or through a home-visiting model. Training is split across two approximate age ranges: 5-9 and 10-15 years. Read more →

Parent-Child Attachment Play (PCAP) Professional CPD
Parent-Child Attachment Play (PCAP) Professional CPD

Parent-Child Attachment Play (PCAP) is an innovative early help model that focuses on strengthening the parent/carer (or other adult) – child relationship. Read more →

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Ways you can support our work

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News

Clear Sky launches our Emotionally Healthy Schools Platform!

Clear Sky launches our Emotionally Healthy Schools Platform!

We are so excited to have launched our new Emotionally Healthy Schools platform to all of our Clear Sky partner schools. Developed by ... Read more »

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