Together Project

The What? Centre alongside our partner organisation Believe to Achieve have secured funding from the Lottery Community Fund to provide group support and counselling to families.

There will be short-term family support in the form of support groups and involves family members working together, families interacting with one another, and parents and children working separately to develop relationships and share experiences as well as information sharing. 

We currently have 2 groups running. Tuesday’s alternate weeks at 5pm we have a group running in our Dudley building. This is a course of 6 group sessions that covers: parent and child anxiety, anger management, self-harm and suicide – what to do, sibling rivalry, issues in school, and internet use – how it affects your mental health. Our second group runs every Thursday at 5pm on Zoom and focusses on family anxiety support. This is a more informal peer support group, which you can drop in and out of as you wish.

The more in-depth work will be family counselling sessions that look at how family members relate to one another, identifying patterns of behaviour that affect each member’s mental health and wellbeing. Some of these sessions are delivered face to face in our Dudley centre and some online via Zoom.

If you feel you would benefit from support for your family, please fill in our referral form here alternatively you can email [email protected] for further information. If you are looking for family work around LGBTQ+ issues, please visit our Fusion page for specialist LGBTQ+ family work. 

The aim of the together project is to improve the lives of families, children and young people where families are experiencing difficulties that get in the way of them enjoying a good family life.

The main beneficiaries will be families experiencing disadvantage in terms of, for example, finance, poor emotional health and wellbeing, domestic violence or bereavement. We want to help families who feel they have run out of ideas, or lack the resources, knowledge or skills to cope.

Read more about our funding here https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/insights/differences-we-make/difference-we-make/place-based-stories/dudley-fortifying-families#item-7