Thanks to the original three asking questions, signposting other parents to services that they found helpful through the council and third sector organisations setting up monthly support group meetings, the difficulties started to reduce as sharing information meant parents did not have to start from scratch finding things out for themselves and feeling they were the only family going through this.

At PAACT, we realised our children were different but so were other children and we started to learn what we needed to do to help them understand what was going on.

As services started to reduce, PAACT found it harder and harder to signpost families to get the help they needed so we increased the help we were providing.

The help was mainly focussed around families in Lincoln and surrounding villages and over the years and thanks to Zoom and Facebook we have members around the country.

The next progression for “PAACT” is “PAACT Family” where we put all our experience out to the world and offer help for the parents/guardians, carers, and family members to help the child/young person reduce their stress and anxieties.