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Post Diagnostic Service ADHD and ASD

Referrals are received from Healthy Young Minds for families to access our Post Diagnostic Service. We work with families who have children/young people diagnosed with Autism or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. We offer a 5-week course that will inform, empower and support families who have received a recent diagnosis. Person centred, 1-1 work is carried out with the families that attend the course to ensure that the whole family understand their young persons diagnosis and work together going forward.

1-1 Support for Social Care Families

Referrals are received from Bury Council's Social Care Teams. We offer 1-1 support to families who have been referred in. This includes emotional support, upskilling and empowering parents, signposting and support for families in navigating their way through any difficulties they may be having. We can support with various strategies within the home environment. We support and empower families to complete DLA/PIP and charity forms etc. We can also, if necessary, signpost families to various services in Bury. Families are offered our seminars free of charge (please see the upcoming events page).

Parent Carer Seminars

Our Parent Carer Seminars offer support, guidance and information that help to empower and upskill families for their futures. They are an opportunity to meet other parents who are in the same position. Many parents have said that it is one of the most powerful parts of the seminars, realising you are not alone and the only one struggling.

(please see the upcoming events page). We try to arrange the seminars mornings, afternoons and evenings so that everybody is able to attend.

Referrals from School Nursing Team

We receive referrals from the School Nursing Teams in Bury. Families are referred into our service for individual 1-1 support. We aim to empower families so they can manage any issues they are currently facing. We work closely with the relevant school so behaviours are worked on across all settings promoting consistency.

CAMHS - Step Down Service

We receive referrals from CAMHS in Bury in relation to supporting parent’s emotional health and wellbeing. We offer 1-1 support to parents supporting them with the day to day challenges they may be facing. We inform and empower parents and help them develop their own natural support and support network. We can also signpost families to various statutory or voluntary/third sector organisations to ensure they are getting the correct support.

Bespoke Training

First Point Family Support Services offer bespoke training packages to a wide variety of people and organisations including; schools, parents/carers, children and young people, local authorities, health care professionals, private establishments, voluntary and third sector organisations.

Person Centred Planning (including Graphic Facilitating)
Tactics for Home Parenting Sessions
Safeguarding (Children)
Safeguarding (Adults)
Skill Building Courses
Disability Awareness
Understanding Autism
Understanding ADHD

If you would like to discuss any of the above, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and we can devise personalised courses for your intended audience. Please contact us on 0161-762-1440 or via email - admin@firstpointsupport.org.uk

Sensory Seminars

First Point Family Support Services are the contract leads for the Sensory Pilot in Bury. Rehabilitation for Independence are the specialist private company that are commissioned through the contract to deliver the sensory assessments and sensory seminars (see their webpage link below). As contract lead we report on the anonymous statistical data to contract leads and manage the bookings, provide the venues and refreshments for all the seminars.

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PACT and IBASIS

PACT

First Point Family Support Services have been delivering Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy since May 2022. We have four qualified PACT Therapists.

Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy (PACT) is an intervention that supports connection, celebrates difference, and enhances communication.

PACT is a partnership between professionals and you as the parent/carer. It draws on your individual positive attributes and builds on your relationship with your child. This leads to a better understanding of your child and enhances your ability to accommodate and adapt to their individual differences. In the process, your child will learn to initiate communication on many more occasions, which positively affects their overall ability to interact, meet their needs, and self- advocate.

The PACT therapist uses specific video feedback techniques to help you, as parents/carers, recognise, respond to, and enhance your child’s communication. In this way, children are supported to develop their interaction and communication skills in their natural environment, which is one of the most effective ways of ensuring enduring development in social communication skills.

IBASIS

What is IBasis?

iBASIS (Intervention for the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings) uses videos of parents and carers playing with their babies. This helps parents/carers to better understand their babies and help to develop their interaction skills. The iBASIS practitioner records the adult and child playing together; then the adult and iBASIS practitioner watch the video back together and talk about what is going well and why. From watching their child and talking about them, the parents and carers develop more understanding of their baby and strategies that help their child.

Who runs the IBasis programme?

iBASIS is carried out by a Specialist iBASIS practitioner from the Bury Health Visiting Service, SEND Health Visiting Team in partnership with First Point Family Support.

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The Team

Lynsey Blears - Company Director, PACT & IBASIS, Practitioner

Debi Walker - Company Director, PACT Practitioner, ADOS Practitioner

Amy Price - Hi Level - Family Support Worker

Helen Bainbridge - Family Support Worker

Lauren Minshull Brown - Family Support Worker

Jenny Burns - Service Co-Ordinator

Hannah Fitton - Admin Support

Nicole Blears -PACT and IBASIS Practitioner

Lucy Lee - Financial Support, PACT Practitioner

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