Family Reunion and Parenting Project

Family Reunion and Parenting Project - in partnership with Rainbow Haven. 

This ground-breaking project enables families to overcome the multiple challenges arising from family reunion following serial migration: reducing the likelihood of family breakdown, or the involvement of social services or the family courts. 
 
Launched in Autumn 2020, the project includes Family Reunion group sessions led by a psychological practitioner. These sessions focus on re-building relationships, addressing expectations and helping children and parents talk to each other about their experiences whilst separated and their hopes and aspirations now they are reunited.  In the first phase of the project, running until January 2025, 88 parents and 110 children were supported by the Family Reunion groups.
 
Alongside these sessions, the project provides Parenting Workshops which help to improve families’ understanding of UK parenting expectations and child protection laws, as well as encouraging parents to access local resources. After being introduced during the first phase of the project in 2023, 87 parents were supported by the Parenting Workshops.

“The facilitators made me feel like we are family and a space I can share everything. I miss community and it was nice to speak to others from my community.”

The project will also recruit and train Global Majority people to deliver cultural consultancy work and peer mentoring for families.

In addition to partnering with Rainbow Haven, we work with GMIAU, British Red Cross, and other organisations in Greater Manchester to deliver a whole systems approach.

This project is funded by the Reaching Communities National Lottery Community Fund.