PARENTS Online Platform Launches to 5-Nights per week

BRADFORD, U.K. - Oct. 1, 2021 - PRLog -- The Cellar Trust, a mental health charity based in Bradford, supported by Brathay Trust, a UK-wide young people's and family charity run the online platform PARENTS Online. Launching to 5-nights per week (previously 2-nights) from Monday 4^th October due to increased demand.

PARENTS Online is a platform where parents and carers can reach out via a text-based confidential chat online to receive emotional support from a trained support worker. The support worker will listen to any problems, issues or anxieties about whatever the parent or carer may be facing.

PARENTS Online is available Monday – Friday between 6pm – 9pm (from 4^th October) because sometimes all a parent or carer needs is to be listened to.

The team from PARENTS Online will provide a confidential listening service, which can be used anonymously. Everyone on the chat will receive support from a fully trained worker, by using personal experience of parenting. It will be a safe space to talk openly without judgement, about anything.

The increase from 2-days to 5-days per week for PARENTS Online comes after funding of £59,996.65 was granted from the Morrisons Foundation for 12-months.

The Cellar Trust supported by Brathay Trust, together with Andy's Man Club are also including a special Dad's themed evening on Thursdays. A safe and secure place where visitors to Andy's Man Club can utilise PARENTS Online to discuss their worries of being a parent or carer.

PARENTS Online are aiming to help 455 families across the UK within the first year.

David Grant-Roberts, Lead Peer Support at The Cellar Trust, says; "During Covid, the Covid Scientific Advisory Group in Bradford highlighted the high proportion of parents who were struggling with their mental health due to the challenges of parenting. Pre-Covid, the Bradford Children and Young People's Mental Health review highlighted that support for parents was a real gap in provision leading to the bigger picture of poor child mental health. Sadly this is only worsening as a result of the pandemic.

PARENTS Online can be used anonymously, accessed from anywhere and provides the option of accessing text-based support to allow busy parents/carers to seek support discreetly whilst juggling the demands of a busy household. We provide a much-needed outlet for parents/carers and provide the option of speaking to someone who truly understands. As a consequence we can significantly help with the mental health of parents using this service and in turn positively impact the mental health of their children".

www.parentsonline.co.uk