Resources

Queer Families: Support and Advice for Services working with LGBTQ Families

Published 2020. This resource was developed with our Queer Families group. We hope that this resource will help to inform services responses to LGBTQ families, so that they can provide inclusive support for everyone.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Queer Families: Support and Advice for LGBTQ Families

Published 2020. We developed this resource with our Queer Families group, aiming to provide support and advice for LGBTQ families based on the stories and experiences we heard.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Tips for free family games and fun

Published 2020. These tips share suggestions from families we are working with for fun activities and family games at home. Keeping the family entertained and active without costing a lot of money is difficult at the best of times. And this year it has been harder than ever for many families. Many of the ideas in the resource use things you may have around your home, and other activities are free or low cost.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

South East Newsletter

Published 2020. The first edition of our Outside the Box South East Newsletter. It includes little snippets of some of the work we are working on at the moment.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Community Gardens – Peebles and Innerleithen

Published 2019. It is well researched and documented that gardening is very good for your physical and mental health and can aid recovery from illness. In a community garden you get the added bonus of belonging to a like minded group of people, giving something back to the community, and the opportunity to make friends, learn from, teach, support and be supported by other people. It’s also fun, very rewarding and there is a great feel-good factor after working in the garden.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Parenting Teenagers – Top Ten Tips

Published 2018. Being a parent isn't always easy. The teenage years can be particularly difficult as teenagers may behave like adults one minute and children the next. Here are some tips which you may find helpful. This booklet was created by Parenting Across Scotland, supported by Outside The Box.