Community & Family Learning
We offer FREE interactive courses to help you negotiate these tricky times. If you are a parent, grandparent or caring for a child or young person living in Essex we have support for you.
Courses are delivered online live & face to face at various locations across Essex and some flexible learning classes. You will come to non-judgemental, supportive learning sessions facilitated to support your family’s journey.
Bringing Families Together
During our courses, you will connect with others in a safe environment, gain free learning and support and share a love for learning as a family. Our courses and sessions are not recorded because our learning is based on lived experience and we promote confidentiality and safeguarding as core values to our courses.
Our Offer
Early Years
Theses workshops will provide support for parents or carers of children under 5 on a range of topics.
Family Wellbeing
Develop mindfulness strategies and tools with your family in addition to caring for each other’s and your own wellbeing.
Parenting
These workshops are to recognise and accept children’s feelings in a positive way and learn a range of strategies.
SEND support for parents
Support your family’s journey pre, during and post diagnosis. Educate yourself to support your wider family.
Qualifications and Employment
We offer free courses to help you regain control of your employment prospects and boost your confidence.
Understanding the curriculum
Understand the different subjects’ children are learning at school with experienced tutor support.
Specialist workshops
These one-off workshops that cover a variety of topics, offering support for you and your family.
Strengthening Communities
For anyone who has identified a need within their community and would like to get involved in creating a community project.
Financial Wellbeing
Responding to the cost of living crisis, we are delivering courses that will help support you with financial wellbeing.
The Parent Ambassador Programme
Parent Ambassadors are a valued part of ACL Essex supporting parental engagement for schools and communities, whilst developing your skills to support others. Currently focusing on the levelling up areas of Basildon, Tendring, Harlow and Colchester we aim to recruit, train and offer unique personal development opportunities to anyone in a parenting role. We really need your help to support parents in the community.
