Family Support Partnership Lanarkshire

COSCA’s Counselling Skills Certificate starts on 15th October 2008 with Scottish Marriage Care. The course will be held within The Relationship Centre, Glasgow.

The course is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in enhancing personal and professional relationships or in the use of counselling skills in the workplace. It’s also the perfect first step for anyone interested in training as a counsellor. Learning more about counselling skills will:

Enhance communication and people skills
Support work relationships
Assist effective listening
Develop self-awareness and reflection

Further information can be found on The Relationship Centre website.

For an informal chat about the course or to request an application form, please contact Kathleen Conroy on 0141 222 2166 or email her.

Filed under: Relationship Counselling by FSPL on July 4, 2008
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In order to meet demand, Family Mediation South Lanarkshire’s East Kilbride Child Contact Centre will now open every Saturday.

For an informal chat about using the centre give Pauline Nimmo, Contact Centre Manager, a call on 01698 421 333.

Filed under: Child Contact Centre by FSPL on July 1, 2008
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The design team who worked on FamilySupport.org.uk, The Web Design Loft, have undergone a rebrand…Auxano Creative is born!

Auxano (au-ksä’-n?) is Greek for “to grow” or “to increase” and the design team hope to help your organisation do just that.

We have to say, FamilySupport.org.uk simply wouldn’t be as easy to navigate and visually stunning were it not for the talented minds at Auxano Creative. The team worked with us on our site day and night to come up with the perfect online showcase of our services. If you’d like to have a chat about website design and development then get in touch with Susan Nelson at Auxano.

Filed under: Website by FSPL on April 18, 2008
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SMC is currently recruiting volunteers to train as qualified relationship counsellors.

This is an excellent opportunity for people to help others in their community, gain valuable skills and experience and a university-accredited diploma in relationship counselling.

Relationship counselling helps people in unhappy marriages and relationships to reduce stress and change negative behaviours. Counselling has a wide-ranging positive impact on children, the extended family and the wider community.

If you’d like to find out more about SMC and training to become a relationship counsellor then why not attend our information session on Wednesday 28th May, 7.30pm at the Diocesan Centre, Corsington Road, Motherwell.

If you’d like an informal chat about the training then please call Margaret Morris on 0141 222 2166 or email her.

Filed under: Relationship Counselling, Work for Us by FSPL on April 15, 2008
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Building on the success of their centres in Burnbank and East Kilbride, Family Mediation South Lanarkshire will open the doors of the new Lesmahagow child contact centre for the first time on Saturday. The centre, based at 10 Priory Avenue, is a fully refurbished building with excellent facilities, including a garden, kitchen area, waiting area and two contact rooms filled with toys and games. The new centre will provide much needed supported child contact centre facilities for the Clydesdale area on a fortnightly basis as of Saturday 5th April 2008.

If you’re a parent or a professional looking to arrange contact or just looking to find out more about the new centre, please call the Contact Centre Manager, Pauline Nimmo on 01698 421 333 for an informal chat.

Filed under: Child Contact Centre, Family Mediation by FSPL on April 4, 2008
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Estimating the cost of family breakdown to the state is difficult and controversial. This is because there are both direct and indirect costs of family breakdown, and the latter can be extremely wide-ranging.

Direct costs associated with family breakdown include housing, and decreased employment. Slightly less direct are the costs of time taken off work and visits to the GP. There are then many indirect costs – such as educational failure and drug misuse, all things which are shown to be more likely in households where the parent’s relationship has broken down.

How much these cost the state – and how much of this cost can be attributed to relationship breakdown – is contested. The child of a teen parent, whose parents themselves separated, may go on to cost the state a disproportionately large amount over his lifetime. How much of this was due to the failure of his grandparents’ relationship? A family where the parent’s relationship has broken down is more likely to contain children indulging in anti-social behaviour. This, in turn, leads to their eviction. Such a family costs the taxpayer between £250,000 and £330,000. How much of this cost can be attributed to family breakdown?

Unsurprisingly, the costs of family breakdown are exaggerated or downplayed according to viewpoints. One of the most recent costings came from the Social Justice Policy Group. Their analysis resulted in a cost to the nation of between £20 and £24billion, or £680-£820 per taxpayer. This included both direct and indirect costs.

Filed under: Family Mediation, Relationship Counselling, Research by FSPL on February 27, 2008
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Here at FSPL we are urging couples not to rely on occasions like Valentine’s Day to keep their romance alive and relationship strong. It’s not all about chocolates and flowers after all.

Recent research has found couples wait an average of eight years before seeking help, which in many situations can be too late. FSPL recommends couples use Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to reassess their relationship with a ‘REFOCCUS’ relationship MOT. Good relationships don’t just happen, they need to be worked at.

You can find more information on REFOCCUS and our other relationship counselling services here.

Filed under: Relationship Counselling by FSPL on February 12, 2008
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After lots of hard work the Family Support Partnership Lanarkshire website is live and unleashed on the world. The site is packed full of practical advice on the relationship counselling, sexual therapy, family mediation and child contact centre services we offer. All the information and advice is updated on a regular basis so be sure to bookmark familysupport.org.uk

The site also lists all the contact options for getting in touch with Family Mediation South Lanarkshire, Relate Lanarkshire and Scottish Marriage Care. So you can now email us your queries or requests for an initial appointment via the contact page.

Why not sign up to the FSPL newsletter via the the home page, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest developments in counselling and mediation services across Lanarkshire. Your privacy is important to us, we promise not to send more than one newsletter per month and we will never pass your details onto a third party.

Special thanks goto Susan at The Web Design Loft whose hard work and dedication mean FSPL have such a user-friendly and attractive website. We’d also like to thank David at Meir Hosting who provided us with free professional hosting for the site. Finally, thanks to Colin at Pixels Ink design studio who created the Famly Support Partnership Lanarkshire logo.

If you’d like to know more about the work of FSPL please contact our Development Officer, Ross McCulloch.

Filed under: Website by FSPL on February 4, 2008
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