Thanks to funding from The National Lottery, PEGS are delighted to announce that we have created a new post for a well-being practitioner!

This role is of huge importance to us as a service. We are fully aware of the impact CPA can have on the well-being of parents. CPA causes 97% of parents to change their routine and lifestyles, often meaning they are forced to stop doing the activities that focus on their self-care and contribute to enhanced feelings of well-being.

Since our inception, parents have consistently informed us that the abusive behaviours they are experiencing from their child are having a negative effect on their well-being. A recent survey showed that over ¾ of parents experiencing CPA feel isolated and helpless. By creating a role for a well-being practitioner, we will be able to provide support to parents and help them make time for self-care, which is imperative during a very difficult period in their life.

There is a high demand for the service we provide. Due to there being such a large number of parents needing our support, the addition of a well-being practitioner will help the team to carry on providing support to parents experiencing CPA.

Nearly half of parents reported feeling unheard in a recent survey. The support they receive from the well-being practitioner will help them to understand that they are heard, and that there will always be someone advocating for them. Once they know they are not alone, their experience will only become easier.

This is a role that will be orientated around helping our parents, through virtual one-to-one and group support, as well as in person walk & talk sessions in Shropshire and Derbyshire where parents can open up in a safe space with others who are going through similar experiences. Walk & talk sessions will promote positive mental health through exercise, community cohesion and the use of green spaces.

For the parents who aren’t able to commute to the locations where the walk & talk sessions will take place; the well-being practitioner will host monthly online sessions based around meditation and mindfulness. So, wherever parents are, they can benefit from self-care sessions, whether in person or online.

PEGS has supported over 3,500 parents so far. Complementing our current practitioner team, our new well-being practitioner will be able to make a real difference and help us to increase this number even more.

We are massively grateful for this funding and wanted to thank The National Lottery for their generosity and for the belief that they have shown in PEGS.