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Connected Family Toolkit
Supporting Conversations That Strengthen Families
This series of resources is designed to give parents and carers practical tools and strategies to support their children at home, from communicating feelings and navigating difficult moments to strengthening family relationships.
Each pack is designed to build confidence, understanding and practical skills, helping families develop positive ways to communicate, connect and support one another. They include simple, accessible activities and conversation prompts that can be used flexibly at home and adapted to suit different ages and family circumstances.
Each of the four sections below will have a resource for KS1, 2 and 3. You can use these resources however you choose, but they work best if you work through them in order, as each resource builds on the previous information.
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These resources are the springboard for supporting children and young people communicate effectively at home, beginning to develop the tools they need to confidently express themselves to you and to navigate more complex conversations.
They are designed to give young people a chance to explore who they are and what matters to them. Children and teenagers are encouraged to share their interests and hopes for the future with you to build connection that will act as a strong foundation for meaningful communication. They are supported to identify their strengths to build confidence in articulating their needs.
These resources build on the connection established in pack 1 (All about me) and aim to develop the young person’s understanding of their family. For children living with an injured loved one, this gives them the opportunity to explore what other family members need and what their roles are.
These discussions support young people to positively contribute to family life, whether through showing appreciation, respecting boundaries or offering help. Developing a stronger sense of community and belonging in the family can also give them strength to navigate through the more difficult times.
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These resources support young people to recognise, name and describe their feelings, giving them the tools to reflect on and express what they are going through.
For children and young people, talking about feelings can be difficult and can take a lot of practice so these resources may just be the starting point. But as they develop emotional literacy, they should find that they are able to manage difficult feelings better.
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These resources are designed to support parents and young people to develop restorative conversation as a way of reflecting on difficult moments, addressing them and learning from them. Restorative conversations give us a chance to share our feelings, listen to other perspectives and repair our relationships.
With guidance on developing your own set of ground rules and a framework for the conversation including a range of open prompts, these resources will support you to develop a restorative approach that suits your family.
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