Parent to Parent Emotional Support Helpline
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Due to a significant increase in demand for our service and a high volume of outstanding calls, Parent to Parent will be temporarily closed to new enquiries. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.
Parent to Parent is a confidential telephone service providing emotional support to parents and carers of autistic adults or children. The service is provided by trained parent volunteers who are all parents of an autistic adult or child.
"Wonderful personal advice that was so much appreciated and valued. Thanks to their support I don’t feel as isolated and alone and have ideas to support my child."
"Really powerful to make a connection and swap experiences with another parent. Helped me feel less alone."
“I feel more positive and hopeful. I can see a way forward.”
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- provide an impartial listening ear
- support you in identifying key issues and strategies
- direct you to appropriate services for information and advice
- call you back at a convenient time during the day, evening or weekend
- offer you complete anonymity, as our volunteers are distributed across the UK
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- answer your call straight away, but we will call you back as soon as possible
- provide face-to-face support
- provide you with ongoing support
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The Parent to Parent Emotional Support Helpline is not a crisis or emergency service. If you require urgent help, please refer to our urgent help page.
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For training and quality purposes there may occasionally be another person listening to your call. The personal data you provide will be used for administration, statistical and other purposes connected with the National Autistic Society and autism.
Information is not disclosed to third parties for marketing or other purposes not connected with autism. Technical and organisational measures are taken to prevent unauthorised or unlawful processing or disclosure of information. Please see our privacy and data protection policy.
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We may at times signpost enquirers on to other organisations. We cannot guarantee the service of other organisations we refer you to and therefore cannot make recommendations. These external websites and organisations are maintained by other groups. They are provided in good faith. The presence of a service does not necessarily imply that the National Autistic Society endorses or supports the originator(s), nor does the absence of a group imply that the National Autistic Society does not support it and cannot be held responsible for the quality of information provided.