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A community for parents and carers of children with SEND.
Find your FLOC
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Find your FLOC —
What FLOC is
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FLOC brings parents and carers of children with SEND together offering Monthly meet-ups and The Reframe Project.
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Our mission at FLOC is to ensure parents never feel isolated and with the help of a practical framework, are better able to enhance their own wellbeing and support their child’s development. Through this model, parents ‘find their FLOC’ and flourish.
Why FLOC exists
When raising a child with special educational needs and/or disabilites (SEND) or any other additional need or sensitivity, there's a period where survival mode becomes the default. Endless questioning, managing appointments, school meetings and learning a whole new language of SEND and the landscape it covers.
We believe that coming together with people who ‘get it’ makes a real difference. Not because it fixes what's hard - but because doing together makes everything easier.
Our monthly meet-ups are where parents and carers come together - facilitated by people who speak from 'we've been there' with zero judgement.
Then, when the dust starts to settle and you come up for air - the Reframe Project will allow you to re-build your reality.
Join a monthly meet-up
Community meet-ups are where we share the load and process our reality. Where we build connections - locally and online - with people who genuinely get it. Come as you are. Share if you want, listen if that's where you're at. Tea and coffee available. No pressure to talk.
The Reframe Project
Talking to over 100 families, we kept hearing the same thing - not just "I need more support" but "I want us to start thriving again as a family."
The Reframe Project is a 7-week framework for parents and carers who are ready to move forward. We use our 7 Pillars to take you from surviving to thriving.
We don't fix what's broken. We reframe what's possible.
What people say…
"I felt so seen and validated by the shared experiences. It has helped me so much with my feeling of guilt around getting things wrong with parenting."
— Carer, FLOC Online
"Just connecting with other parents and having that solidarity."
— Parent, FLOC Frome
"We are not alone."
— Parent, FLOC Bruton
The FLOC Journey
Monthly meet-ups is where we always recommend you start. They provide the perfect space to process, to share, to feel less alone in the journey.
When the dust settles a little, we start to accept our reality - this is where The Reframe Project begins.
The Reframe Project
A 7-week rebuilding framework for when you're ready.
You'll know when that is. It's the moment when you stop firefighting and start to think about how to improve day-to-day experiences.
What it is
Seven weekly sessions, one hour each, online. With a small group of parents and carers who get it - because they're living it too. Facilitated by Katie & Amelia who've been where you are.
Read more about The Reframe Project here
Just finding us?
Come to a meet-up. No registration needed. Just turn up.
Not sure yet?
Register and fill out our 2 min survey, and we'll keep you in the loop. No pressure, no commitment.