Parents Connect
Parents Connect
Equip your community
Transform family lives
Join our mission
We're a Christian charity supporting over 30,000 family members across our Family Hubs.
Our mission is to see every family flourish, and we'd love your church to join us.
Ready-to-run parenting courses
Spurgeons Parents Connect is 3 ready-to-run parenting courses giving families the practical skills to support them at every stage of their child's development.
Parents Connect fits easily into your existing ministry, and the best part? We equip your volunteers, so you don't have to.
Funded by the Benefact Trust, Spurgeons has developed training for course facilitators and a plug-and-play course, designed for delivery by community volunteers within faith and community-based organisations.
Each course provides a complete set of materials including a session guide, slide deck, worksheets, and training videos. Empowering non-expert facilitators to bring groups together and share Spurgeons' approach to parenting.
Primary Years
A practical course that helps parents understand how children think, feel and behave. Filled with supportive tools to help parents nurture their children's emotional development.
Parents and carers learn how to use:
- child-led play
- positive praise
- routines
- building confidence and independence
- how to model apologies
- handle mistakes
- encourage cooperation
- use rewards, home rules and consequences
All to create a secure, nurturing family environment.
Teen Years
A practical reassuring course that deepens parents' understanding of how the teenage brain develops and the impact that puberty and hormonal changes have on emotions, behaviour and decision-making.
The programme helps parents learn strategies to support:
- Self-care and emotional wellbeing
- staying safe in an increasingly complex world
- strengthening communication
- setting healthy boundaries
- navigating newly found independence.
Introduction to neurodiversity
A beginner friendly session that introduces the basics of neurodiversity including concepts such as Theory of Mind to help parents better understand their child's perspective and experiences.
The course includes:
- Learn and practice easy-to-use communication strategies
- space for discussion and community building
- opportunities to share experiences and learn from one another
- ends with a simple breathing activity to help stressed and overwhelmed parents return to family life feeling calmer.
What does Parents Connect offer?
- Courses for family members with children in the Primary Years, Teen Years, and an introductory course for parents/ carers of neurodiverse childen
- A welcoming space for parents to learn, share, and grow
- Volunteer facilitator training with guides, videos, animated explainers and worksheets
- Ongoing support from our Digital Family Hub and Spurgeons Family Team.
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