The Why Not? Trust is predominantly a digital community supporting care experienced parents and parents to be in a variety of ways. This can include providing advice, signposting, emotional support, issuing hospital packs for pregnant mothers, sim cards/data packs and help with financial applications/housing matters.
We also have a Peer Mentoring programme where parents can receive 1-1 support from other parents with knowledge or experience of care.
We want to offer the opportunity to have safe caring relationships at such key transition point in life. Our aim to be part of the scaffolding around parents with lived experience, to champion them and be their ‘village’.
We connect with other third sector agencies and local authorities in order to reach as many care experienced parents as possible.
It’s all self-referral, there is no requirement to ‘prove’ care experience, we don’t keep reports of any kind and do not pass on information discussed with any other agencies.
