Empowering Parents Empowering Communities

Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) is a parenting programme which takes place in Tower Hamlets and over 30 sites in the UK and internationally. Parents learn a range of positive parenting skills to better understand children’s feelings, to value effective parent-child communication and build better, more resilient family relationships. 

Being a Parent course

The Being a Parent course aims to improve child development and outcomes, parenting, family resilience, and family relationships. The Being a Parent course creates a trusting group ethos, where parents are encouraged and supported to explore:

• Supporting you to manage your and your child’s feelings
• Communicate and interact positively with your child
• Use positive behaviour management strategies
• Attachment and parent child relationships
• Manage parental and family stress
• Parenting roles, expectations, and culture

The Being a Parent Course runs over 10 weeks and is completely free.

Baby and Us

Baby and Us is a 10-week group programme offered to parents/carers of babies under 12 months. It will help you to:

• Understand your baby’s cues
• Cope with challenges around feeding, sleep and crying
• Interact positively with your baby
• Manage parental stress

This course is free, with a creche, and runs term time at your local Family Hub. We encourage co-parents to attend together if possible.

As part of the Parent and Adult Education programme, our team's aim is to design coordinate and implement parenting, adult learning, ESOL and similar courses and programmes for families with children from pre-birth to 11 years old. To find out more about the courses available, please click here.

Get in touch

If you would like to attend one of the courses, please use this form to sign up. If you would like more information, please email Rujina or call 07712 30686 or email Tahera or call 07971 722706.