Free online courses starting during pregnancy and continuing up until a child’s 19th birthday

Helping to build loving and close relationships between children and their carers. These courses are available in 15 to 20 minute chunks and in a variety of languages.

1. Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby. Has information on pregnancy, labour and birth.
2. Understanding your baby. For anyone caring for a baby from birth to 12-months-old. Supports baby’s development. Has information on sleep, feeding, crying, and playing as well as childcare options.
3. Understanding your child. For anyone caring for a child from birth to 18. Adds simple, practical strategies to the parenting toolbox.
4. Understanding your child's feelings (a taster course)
5. Understanding your teenager’s brain - Helps parents and carers understand what happens to the brain of a child as they go through adolescence and understand some of the behaviours they might be noticing.
6. Understanding the impact of the pandemic on your teenager - helps you understand how the COVID pandemic may have affected your teenager emotionally. It may take you about 20 minutes to complete.
7. Understanding your teenager's brain (for teenagers themselves) - Find out what's happening in your brain! Your brain changes as you hit adolescence. Going to sleep later? See how the changes in your brain explain some of the changes in your behaviour.
8. Understanding your child with additional needs. For anyone caring for a child with special needs. Looks at some particular aspects of parenting such as sleep and anger management, helping to make it easier
   to work with your child’s behaviour.
9. Understanding your child's mental health and wellbeing
10. Moving up to secondary school for children with additional needs - parents can use the ideas and techniques to help better understand their child, their emotions and how to help them process or manage them.
11. Understanding your relationships. A course for adults, young people, and older adults covering communication, anger, conflict, repair and more.

Families can visit www.inourplace.co.uk and register for a free account with the access code ‘Invicta’. Courses can be completed at an individual’s own pace.

Families can also access three online courses on coping with stress, communicating better wherever you are in your parenting journey and whether you are in a relationship or separated.

• Arguing better - how to approach disagreements.
• Me, you and baby too - how to navigate the changes that happen in a relationship when a new baby arrives.
• Getting it right for children - how to minimise conflict and the impact it can have on your children when you are separating or have split up.

Visit www.oneplusone.org.uk, select Kent as your area and set up an account with a username and password.

You need a smartphone, tablet or computer and an internet connection to access the courses. They are all free to access.

If these courses raise any concerns please contact your local Health Visiting Team or School Health Team for more support.