Caring With Confidence
CARING WITH CONFIDENCE SESSIONS
Caring with Confidence
- Do you look after a friend, neighbour or relative, who needs help due to disability, age or illness?
- Is this more than 1 hour a week up to 24 hours a day?
Caring with Confidence can help you to make a positive difference to your life and that of the person you look after.
Caring with Confidence is a FREE skills and knowledge programme, which has been designed by carers for carers, to be fun yet informative. You can take part in local group sessions, through handbooks sent to your home or even over the internet.
We can be flexible to your needs, so if you want to be involved let us know if we can help you in any way. We can pay for alternative respite costs or reimburse transport if you wished to attend the group sessions.
This is a national programme, but ran with local facilitators who have different experiences in this area. It is attended by people from across Hull and the East Riding and as such we are currently compiling a local information folder for the East Riding as well as the ones we have for Hull and parent carers.
We are expanding the number of sessions and the venues we use to try and accommodate the individual needs of as many carers as possible. We can come to different, groups, schools, organisations and venues so if you are a member of a group and would like to take part in one or more session please get in touch to organise this.
There are six stand alone sessions in the programme which you can pick and choose from depending on your individual caring needs. Details about each of the sessions are available at the bottom of this page.
For more information please contact Sam on (01482) 225 078 or email her at cwc@carerscentrehull.org.uk who can tell you more about the programme and answer any questions you may have.
Future Sessions include:
Sessions at the Bransholme Health Centre, Goodhart Road
Thursdays 9.30am-12.30pm
Bransholme Health Centre, Caring with Confidence reunion coffee morning starts at 10am on Thursday 30th September 2010.
Sessions at the Buckingham Street Day Centre, Holderness Road
Mondays 11.00am-2.30pm
Caring and Resources 23rd August
Caring and Communicating 6th September
Caring and Coping 13th September
Sessions at the Carers Centre, Prospect Street
For carers of people with Dementia
Wednesdays 12:30pm-3:00pm
Caring and Communicating 22th September
Caring and Coping 29th September
Caring and Me 20th October
Caring and Life 27th October
Caring and Resources 17th November
Caring Day to Day 24th November
Sessions at Kingston House, 60 Bond Street, Hull, HU1 3ER
For all carers, to be held once a month
All sessions run on different days of the week but always between 9.30am-12.30pm
Caring and Life Tuesday 14th September
Caring and Me Thursday 21st October
Caring and Communicating Monday 8th November
Caring and Coping Wednesday 10th January
Caring and Resources Friday 11th February
Caring Day to Day Tuesday 15th March
Sessions at Tweendykes School, Tweendykes Road, Sutton-on-Hull, Hull, HU7 4XJ
For parent carers
Fridays 10:00am-1:00pm
Caring and Communicating 5th November
Caring and Coping 12th November
Caring and Me 19th November
Caring and Life 26th November
Caring Day to Day 3rd December
Caring and Resources 10th December
Also, we will shortly be organising dates for parent carers at Northcott School and Ganton School in January, so keep looking!
More sessions are regularly organised, so please keep checking the site for details or contact Sam to be added to the mailing list.
Alternatively if you would like us to run one or more session for your group, school, organisation or venue, please contact Sam to discuss.
You can contact Sam on 01482 225078 or email cwc@carerscentrehull.org.uk or even pop in to the Carers Centre.
Each session includes:
Caring and Coping - Gives you time and space to look at the emotions involved in looking after someone. What strategies you use and what you could do to cope with stress more effectively.
http://www.caringwithconfidence.net/caring-and-coping
Caring and Me - How to be fit for life and caring. Discussion and planning around your own health and wellbeing.
http://www.caringwithconfidence.net/caring-and-me
Caring Day-to-Day - Looks at the essentials of looking after someone on a day by day basis, from medication to emergencies at home.
http://www.caringwithconfidence.net/caring-day-to-day
Caring and Resources - How you can maximise your income and access other resources which save you money as a carer.
http://www.caringwithconfidence.net/caring-and-resources
Caring and Life - Allows you to take time out and think about how you juggle competing demands and how your caring role fits with other aspects of your life.
http://www.caringwithconfidence.net/caring-and-life
Caring and Communicating - Uses real-life caring situations to help you get the best from communicating with other people.
http://www.caringwithconfidence.net/caring-and-communicating
