Family support
Links to organisations providing family support - emotonal and practical
Emotional and practical Family support
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity supports families where there is a seriously ill child. This can include support for the sick child, siblings or parents and can be at home, in the hospital or in the community. Each family will be allocated a Family Support Worker who can be somebody to chat to or do fun activities with.
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity
Suite 2F
North Sands Business Centre
Liberty Way
Sunderland
SR6 0QA
Diabetes management
Diabetes UK
Life with type 1 diabetes is relentless, so we're working with young people aged 11-25 years old to create strong networks that help all young people feel less isolated and alone. This programme is called Our Lives, Our Choices, Our Voices.
Funded by the Steve Morgan Foundation, Our Lives, Our Choices, Our Voices will:
- support young people to understand and feel more confident about managing type 1
- support young people to develop strong peer support networks, reducing the feelings of isolation and loneliness that living with type 1 diabetes can create
- support young people to better communicate with healthcare teams and create change in their local health systems.
Want to get involved in Our Lives, Our Choices, Our Voices?
Young people from all over the UK are getting involved in this exciting new programme - come and join them! We're recruiting Young Leaders to volunteer with us and help shape the programme to best support other young people living with type 1 diabetes.
Email: lucy.wieland@diabetes.org.uk
Website: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/how_we_help/community/youth-programme/young-leader
Mobile number: 07469154831
Disabilities, Special Educational Needs, Chronic and Terminal Illness
The Chronicle Sunshine Fund
The Sunshine Fund is a local charity. If you are aged 0-19 years old and have a disability, additional needs, special educational needs, or a chronic or terminal illness, you can apply to us for equipment to help. This equipment could be to help with playing and leisure opportunities, for supporting your education and learning or meeting a therapy need. We also offer free family events and experiences such as trips, sensory play, baking and crafting and parent support sessions.
The Chronicle Sunshine Fund,
NCJ Media Offices, 2nd Floor, Eldon Court, Percy Street, Newcastle, NE1 7JB.
We are on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube as The Sunshine Fund/The Chronicle Sunshine Fund.
Opening times: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday
Support to 11-25 year olds who are struggling with sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
- One to one appointments which are tailored around the individual’s needs.
- Family support for both the young person and their family to help develop understanding and improve communication.
- Peer support groups which are held weekly to encourage socialisation and reduce isolation.
- Parent support groups, to support those who have LGBT+ young people under their care.
Address
Inspire HouseBowburn Industrial Estate NorthBowburnCounty DurhamDH6 5PF
Opening times
- Mon: 8:45am - 4:45pm
- Tues: 8:45am - 4:45pm
- Wed: 8:45am - 4:45pm
- Thurs: 8:45am - 4:45pm
- Fri: 8:45am - 4:14pm