For Those Who Work With Families
Empowering parents. Strengthening families. Building healthier communities.
Across the UK, schools, Family Hubs, and community organisations are seeing the same pattern: families facing complex challenges rooted in trauma, poverty, isolation, and adversity.
Many existing parenting programmes struggle to reach the parents who need support the most.
Root & Rise was created to bridge that gap.
About Root & Rise
Root & Rise is a six-week, trauma-informed reparenting programme designed to support parents affected by adversity and help them build stronger relationships with their children.
The programme was co-designed with parents who have lived experience of trauma and disadvantage, ensuring it is practical, accessible, and relevant to families who often feel excluded from traditional parenting programmes.
Root & Rise helps parents to:
Discover
Understand how their own experiences and upbringing influence their parenting today.
Learn
Develop simple, practical tools to manage stress, regulate emotions, and create a calmer home environment.
Connect
Strengthen relationships with their children through play, attachment-building activities, and shared learning.
Grow
Build confidence, resilience, and the skills needed to support their children’s emotional and developmental wellbeing.
Each participating parent receives weekly take-home resources alongside a high-quality Playkit, enabling families to turn learning into meaningful connection at home.
Why It Works
Root & Rise sits at the intersection between professional intervention and community support, creating a space where parents feel safe enough to engage and grow.
The programme is:
Trauma-Informed
All facilitators are trained in trauma-informed practice and create psychologically
safe spaces for parents to reflect and grow.
Evidence-Informed
Root & Rise draws on neuroscience, attachment theory, and early intervention research.
Community-Led
The programme was shaped with local parents and practitioners to ensure it reflects
real-life family experiences.
Accessible
The course uses visual tools, storytelling, and practical activities. Reading ability is not required.
Relationship-Based
Parents build supportive peer connections that continue beyond the programme.
The Impact We Are Working Towards
Root & Rise is designed to support long-term change within families and communities.
The outcomes we aim to support include:
• Increased parental confidence and emotional regulation
• Stronger parent-child relationships
• Improved child wellbeing and behaviour
• Greater engagement between families and community support networks
• Reduced isolation for parents facing adversity
Our programme first started in Breightmet, Bolton, one of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities, where we are working alongside local partners to test and refine the model.
Partnering With ParentRoot Collective
We work with:
• Schools
• Family Hubs
• Local authorities
• Community organisations
• Faith-based organisations
Partner organisations commission Root & Rise to support families within their communities.
We provide:
• Programme delivery
• Parent engagement support
• Playkits and course materials
• Trauma-informed facilitation
• Evaluation and impact reporting
Commissioning Root & Rise
Root & Rise is free for parents and funded through partner organisations such as schools and community services.
If you work with families and would like to explore bringing Root & Rise to your community, we would love to talk.