Intensive Family Support (Aiming Higher Charity)

Services for parents

In-person service

Based at Aiming Higher’s Centre, they have a dedicated team who are committed to helping families and supporting them through the complex issues that parents with children who have disabilities and/or special educational needs face. They work in a family centred way, encompassing everyone within the family and being led by their needs, whether diagnosed or not.

Their Intensive Family Support will take families through assessment, support planning and moving on strategies including:

Solution focussed work with practical outcomes
Behaviour management strategies and resources
Coaching and support to prepare and attend meetings
Advice and guidance around diagnosis pathways, choices and processes
Grant applications
Support around Educational, Health and Social Care Plans (EHCP) processes
Benefit advice and support to complete applications and appeals

They also work in partnership with local and national organisations to ensure that families are provided with the best access to the right support at the right time for them.

Access to their Intensive Family Support service is by referral and subject to a triage assessment by our team.

To discuss access to Instensive Family Support before referral, you’re welcome to give their team a call on 01253 206447

What the service supports:

Autism friendly
Learning disability friendly
Wheelchair friendly

Eligibility

Families with children who have disabilities and / or special educational needs across the Fylde Coast
Children do not have to have a diagnosis in order to access services