Dorset Parent Infant Partnership

A unique attachment parenting service for expectant parents and parents with infants under 2.

To inspire and nurture the human spirit, one baby, one family and one community at time. We aim to end the cycles of adverse childhood experiences. By facilitating calm, safe space where parent and babies can safely explore their emerging relationship away from external pressures. Supporting parents and babies with counselling, parenting groups & infant massage. We focus on your emerging parent infant relationship.

Why the community needs us
Being a parent today is challenging, we recognise that there are many stresses on relationships including those between parents and the infants. There are many circumstances that can seriously impact the ability of parents to be emotionally present for their babies, such as birth trauma, bereavement, adverse childhood experiences, abuse, homelessness, anxiety and depression. Babies need their parents to be appropriately emotionally responsive for their optimum brain, nervous system and gut development. To give babies the resilience needed for 21st century living.

Our impact on the community
Babies and children who experience what is collectively known as adverse childhood experiences are more likely to have lower educational attainment, drop out of school, have poor coping strategies that lead to alcohol and substance misuse and obesity. We can influence and improve the life chance of babies we work with families, building a better future for them and their children. Ending cycles of adverse childhood experiences.

P.S. Did you know 91% of your donation goes directly to helping families flourish!

Volunteers needed

As a fledgling charity we need volunteers to help us reach more families, and to promote the service so more families can discover us and get the help they need. We need to raise more funds to help us reach across the whole of Dorset.

What your gift could provide

£20

Can unlock the magic providing a parent and little one a Little Pips peer support group session

£85

ensures the successful running of one of our 6 week online courses, be it Peapods or DorPIP Dads.

£145

enables us to offer a full six-week course of attachment-focused, baby-led infant massage.

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Charity Information

Dorset Parent Infant Partnership

Address: C/O Morris Lane Accountants, 31-33 Commercial Road, Poole Dorset BH14 0HU

Registered charity no.: 1175876