NDP Family Support

The core service is NDP Family Training and Navigation. We also offer peer support for parents through our Face 2 Face parent groups and befriending, and youth activities that welcome young people with neuro-differences through Amazing Futures.  

Our NDP Family Training & Navigation Service offers information and advice for parent carers about neurodevelopmental differences, how the local pathways work and how to support your neurodivergent child. There is advice through navigation calls and access to workshops and courses.  

NHS Sussex teams in Brighton & Hove and East Sussex commission Amaze to coordinate this service for our local parent carers.  It complements a range of NDP services and other support across health, education and social care in both regions. 

Any Brighton & Hove or East Sussex parent carer with a child or young person under 25, at any stage on the neurodevelopmental pathway, from looking into getting a referral to the NHS for an assessment to post diagnosis/assessment.

Your child does not need to have a diagnosis to get support and life does not need to have become difficult.

NDP Navigation offers a one-off call to ensure families have access to information and can find and take up available support appropriate to their needs and their stage on the neurodevelopmental pathway. This might mean advising them on how to get an assessment, telling them about services that can help or relevant support networks and sending them resources.

NDP Family Training offers a programme of training, family education and support, produced and delivered by expert parents, people with lived experience, and professionals. Use our short parent carer training tool to find out which of our courses you can access for support.

Examples of training include our online workshop about waiting for an assessment, or our in-person 2-week course for parent carers of children with a diagnosis of ADHD. We also run regular specialist workshops. You may find some of our training on Amaze’s Events calendar.

We will contact you by phone or email. This is typically a one-off contact for signposting, or involve short term follow up to match you to relevant training.

You can refer yourself for NDP family support or ask a professional to do it for you.

The self-referral form takes about 5-10 minutes to complete and it is best to complete it in one go as you cannot save the form. If you are having difficulty filling in this form, please contact us by phone or email. Phone: 0800 088 6013 or Email: [email protected]’