Who is in my corner

The sheet

For you: who you could ask for each kind of help, including the people you haven’t asked yet. Fill it in on a good day, and keep it where you’ll find it on a bad one.

For you · A4 · One page · PDF, 51 KB

How it helps

When you’re struggling, it’s hard to think who to ask, and easy to decide there’s no one. A list made on a good day, with a name for each kind of help, makes asking easier on a bad one, and shows you where the professionals fit.

How to use it

1. Fill it in on a good day, on your own or with someone you trust.
2. For each kind of help, write a name and how to reach them, including people you haven’t asked yet. Blank lines are common, and they’re where the professionals come in.
3. Add your GP surgery, the school’s pastoral lead and your own support.
4. Keep it where you’ll find it on a bad day. If you are not safe, or not sure you can keep yourself or someone else safe, don’t wait: make sure the children are with an adult you trust, and use the routes at theparentbook.com/urgent-help straight away.

How to get this sheet

This sheet comes with a subscription. It is also yours with its chapter, if that is the chapter you read free, or if a teacher or therapist sends it to you. School staff and therapists signed in to their shelf can print it too.

The first chapter you open here is free to read in full, with its sheets. This one goes with When You Are Not All Right.

Free to print

These are free to anyone, with nothing to sign up for.

• A plan for a bad dayTo fill in together · A4
• Before you ring the schoolFor a call or a meeting · A4
• What to say: school and friendsCards to cut out · A4, eight cards to cut
• Before the SENCo meetingFor a meeting · A4
• Three reports, side by sideFor a meeting · A4 landscape
• The return-to-school meetingFor a meeting · A4
• The move to secondary school, for a parents’ eveningFor a parents’ evening · A4, five pages
• The last half-hour before bedFor the fridge · A4
• The worry ladderTo fill in together · A4
• Before you see the GP about your childFor an appointment · A4, two sides
• A record of what happenedFor a call or a meeting · A4, two pages
• The people I can tellTo make together · A4, two pages

Every sheet, marked free or with a subscription, is at theparentbook.com/printables.