| Action for
Prisoners Families |
Action
for Prisoners' Families promotes the just treatment
of prisoners' families by the prison system and society
across the UK. It encourages the development of, and
acts as a voice for, organisations providing support
to these families.
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| Adfam: working with families affected by drugs &
alcohol |
Adfam’s
vision is a United Kingdom where every family member
facing problems with drugs or alcohol will have access
to a range of specialised services.
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| Advicenow: law and your rights |
Advicenow
provides handpicked links to the best available information
on the law and your rights in England and Wales, plus
learning materials, case studies, quizzes and topical
items. Advicenow is provided by Advice Services Alliance,
the coordinating body for UK advice services
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| African Caribbean Family Mediation Service |
This
site is currently under development
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| Aquila
Care Trust |
The
Aquila Care Trust is a charity, founded in 1991 by a group
of men and women who had all experienced a broken relationship
or divorce.
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| Brian
Turner |
Counselling
for individuals, couples, families, children and young
people, either face to face in Shropshire, or online.
Counselling can be for relationships, separation and divorce,
stress, bereavement.
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| British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy |
BASRT
is a national specialist charity for sexual and relationship
therapy.
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| British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy |
The
Association is recognised by legislators, national organisations
and the public alike as the professional body and leading
voice for counselling and psychotherapy in the UK.
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| Brook Advisory Centres |
Brook
Advisory Centres - commonly known just as Brook - is
the only national voluntary sector provider of free
and confidential sexual health advice and services specifically
for young people under 25.
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| CCCS:
Consumer Credit Counselling Service |
The
Consumer Credit Counselling Service is a registered
charity whose purpose is to assist people who are in
financial difficulty by providing free, independent,
impartial and realistic advice. The centre specialises
in workshops, therapy and professional training in the
areas of sexuality, relationship and gender.
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| Centre
for Gender Psychology |
Founded
by husband and wife psychotherapists Nick Duffell and
Helena Løvendal Sørensen, the Centre for
Gender Psychology aims to integrate the best Western psychological
work pioneered by Assagioli, Jung, Reich, and others with
the wisdom of indigenous peoples.
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| Centre
for Research on Families and Relationships |
CRFR
produces and stimulates high quality research and commentary
on families and relationships and disseminates such work
widely.
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| Childline: 0800 1111 |
ChildLine
is a free 24-hour helpline for children and young people
in the UK. Children and young people can call the helpline
on 0800 1111 about any problem, at any time - day or
night.
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| Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service |
CAFCASS
looks after the interests of children involved in family
proceedings. It works with children and their families,
and then advises the courts on what it considers to
be in the children's best interests.
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| Cocoon
Counselling |
Cocoon
is a group of professional counsellors who have joined
together to offer clients a range of counselling services
- primarily online, but which can also be combined with
face-to-face work where appropriate.
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| Colouring
Therapy |
An
alternative to formal meditation practices with a potential
for family and interpersonal team-building skill development.
Guidelines and resources to help you inexpensively improve
your coping and awareness skills through an enjoyable
activity.
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| Comfrey
Counselling |
Hertfordshire
based counsellor with whom clients can make office appointments
or work online.
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| Contact Counts |
Information
and advice about staying involved with your children
after divorce or separation.
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| Couple Counselling Scotland |
Couple
Counselling Scotland (formerly Marriage Counselling
Scotland) is a Scottish charity which celebrated its
50th anniversary in 1998.
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| Emergency
Childcare |
Emergency
Childcare is the only organisation in the UK that gives
you the opportunity to book local nursery and childminder
places or an emergency nanny on a flexible, ad hoc or
daily basis.
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| Enhanced
Healing |
Relaxation
music, positive affirmations and online counseling for
reducing stress and anxiety, promoting health, wellness
and healing and improving self-esteem.
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| Families Need
Fathers |
Families
Need Fathers is a registered UK charity which provides
information and support to parents, including unmarried
parents, of either sex. FNF is chiefly concerned with
the problems of maintaining a child's relationship with
both parents during and after family breakdown.
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| Fathers Direct |
Fathers
Direct is a UK national information centre for fatherhood.
It is a charity (reg. no. 1075104) founded in 1999 by
professionals with expertise in social work, in social
work, family policy, business development and communications.
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| FCL: Debt Clinic |
FCL
is one of the country's leading debt advice agencies
with over 12 years’ experience in helping people with
their debt problems.
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| FPA: Sexual Health |
fpa
(formerly The Family Planning Association) is a registered
charity working to improve the sexual health and reproductive
rights of all people throughout the UK.
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| Gill
Jones |
An
individual counsellor specialising in anxiety, panic
attack, depression, stress and loss.
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| Gingerbread |
Gingerbread
was started in 1970 and is a registered charity maintained
by lone parents for lone parent families in England
and Wales.
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| Institute of Family Therapy |
In
2002 the Institute celebrated its 25th Anniversary.
Since its inception it has established a national and
international reputation for its work and become the
largest family therapy organisation in the UK.
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| Just
Parents |
Parenting
and pregnancy advice for mothers and fathers. Includes
baby names, gender predictor, forums, parents blogs etc.
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| Mad
Not Bad |
This
site is described as the realm of the mental health 'Service
User' and those close to them - the carer, family or friend.
It seeks to foster the idea that being 'mad' doesn't make
you 'bad' and that it's ok to talk about it.
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| Marriage
& Relationship Support (DfES
website) |
This
directory provides information on a wide range of Marriage
& Relationship Support agencies in England and Wales.
Information in the entries is as provided by the agencies
themselves.
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| Marriage
Care |
Marriage
Care is a charity operating across England and Wales.
Its purpose is to help people prepare for, achieve and
sustain successful marriages and to support them should
their marriages break down.
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| MIND |
Mind
is a leading mental health charity in England and Wales
working to create a better life for everyone with experience
of mental distress.
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| National
Association for People Abused in Childhood |
NAPAC
is a registered charity, which has been set up as a result
of a key recommendation by the National Commission of
Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse, which reported
in October 1996.
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| National Association of Child Contact Centres |
Child
Contact Centres are places where children of separated
families can spend time with one or both parents and
sometimes other family members, where there are no other
viable options. The National Association of Child Contact
Centres (NACCC) promotes safe child contact within a
national framework of Child Contact Centres.
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| National Family Mediation |
A
network of over 60 local not-for-profit Family Mediation
Services in England and Wales offering help to couples,
married or unmarried who are in the process of separation
and divorce.
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| National Family Parenting Institute |
The
National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI) is an
independent charity working to support parents in bringing
up their children, to promote the wellbeing of families
and to make society more family friendly.
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| NCH Action for Children |
NCH
helps children at risk or in care, vulnerable young
people and families under pressure.
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| One Parent Families |
One
Parent Families believes that it cab build a fairer
society for all families, in which lone parents and
their children are not disadvantaged and do not suffer
from poverty, isolation, or social exclusion.
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| Online
Counsellor |
West
Yorkshire-based counsellor experienced in supporting
people in resolving a issues such as stress at work,
bereavement, loss, relationship problems, eating disorders,
abuse, depression, addictions and anxiety.
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| Parenting
Education & Support Forum |
The
Parenting Education & Support Forum is a national umbrella
body for people who work with parents.
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| Parentline Plus |
Parentline
Plus is a UK registered charity which offers support
to anyone parenting a child – the child's parents, stepparents,
grand parents and foster parents.
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| Pink Parents |
Pink
Parents' aims are to promote equality and diversity
and to eliminate discrimination in relation to lesbian,
gay and bisexual parents and parents-to-be and their
children.
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| Relate |
Relate
offers advice, relationship counselling, sex therapy,
workshops, mediation, consultations and support
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| Relationships
(BBC website) |
Comprehensive
source of information covering topics such as dating,
sex, coping with grief, domestic violence, coping with
conflict etc.
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| Rethink: helping everyone affected by severe mental
illness |
Working
to help everyone affected by severe mental illness,
including schizophrenia, to recover a better quality
of life.
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| Samaritans |
Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential
emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings
of distress or despair, including those which may lead
to suicide.
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| Single Parent Action Network |
Single
Parent Action Network is a multi-racial organisation
of single parents working to improve the lives of one
parent families in the UK and Europe.
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| The Solicitors Family Law Association |
The
Solicitors Family Law Association is an association
of over 5000 solicitors who are committed to promoting
a non-confrontational atmosphere in which family law
matters are dealt with in a sensitive, constructive
and cost-effective way.
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| Time for Families |
Time
for Families strives for committed personal relationships,
which they aim to achieve by teaching relationship skills
at appropriate stages in family life and by raising
public awareness of good relationship practices.
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| UK College of Family Mediators |
The
aim of mediation is to help people find a solution which
meets as many of their needs - and those of their children
- as possible, and which everyone feels is fair.
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| Women's
Aid |
Women's
Aid is a national domestic violence charity which co-ordinates
and supports an England-wide network of over 300 local
projects, providing over 500 refuges, helplines, outreach
services and advice centres.
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| Work
for Change |
Qualified
counsellor Chris Bristow offers professional help to couples
and individuals experiencing problems with relationships,
food, or sex.
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