TOGETHERNESS

Togetherness (formerly known as the Solihull Approach, developed within the NHS) is a way of helping young people, their families and practitioners build strong relationships and understand emotions. It teaches that everyone has feelings and that understanding these feelings can make it easier to communicate, solve problems, and support each other. The Best Start in Life team explains how Gloucestershire families can access these courses - for FREE.

The Togetherness approach encourages kindness, understanding, and working together so that young people feel listened to, supported, and able to thrive. Many organisations across Gloucestershire who support Parent Carers have welcomed the free access to these courses.

We are pleased to share a valuable resource now available to support families across Gloucestershire.

Through our Togetherness Multi-User Licence, practitioners can offer parents and carers free access to a range of evidence-based online courses designed to support child development, behaviour, emotional wellbeing and family relationships.

What’s available?

Parents can access flexible, easy-to-use online courses covering topics such as:

• Understanding your child’s brain and behaviour
• Managing emotions and challenging behaviour
• Supporting relationships and wellbeing
• Pregnancy, baby and toddler development
• Understanding your child with additional needs.
• Understanding your child from toddler to teenager.
• Understanding your own trauma.
• Understanding your child in a changing world.
• Understanding your teenager’s brain.
• Moving up to secondary school for children with additional needs.

These courses are:

• Fully funded for Gloucestershire families, with a Gloucestershire postcode
• Accessible anytime, on any device
• Designed to complement your existing work with families

Why this matters

This offer provides a consistent, preventative approach to parenting support, helping families build confidence and resilience while reducing escalation to more intensive services.

Attached is a list of the 16 pathways, with the pathway fact and descriptions.

How practitioners can use this

You can:

• Recommend courses directly to parents and carers
• Use courses alongside your interventions
• Encourage early help and self-guided support

👉 Access the Gloucestershire page here:
https://togetherness.co.uk/gloucestershire

Please use the password - POTTER

👉 Watch the short explainer video for professionals:
MUL explainer video for professionals

For more information please visit  Gloucestershire’s Local Offer, Support for Families with SEND .

Thank you for your continued work supporting children and families across Gloucestershire.

Pathway explainers - Online pathway facts and descriptions.pdf

Pathways Age Range and Themes Map.pdf