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Parenting support

Support for you as a parent — strengthen your parenting, find your strengths, and get new tools for everyday life.

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Please note that all forms, digital applications (e-services) and some linked websites are currently in Swedish. Contact Citizen Service if you need help in English.

Contact the Parent Support Service

Phone hours and number

  • Monday: 08:30–09:30
  • Wednesday: 08:30–09:30
  • Friday: 08:30–09:30

Call +46 921 627 98.

Book an appointment

You can book through our e-service or by phone.

Who can receive support?

The Parent Support Service is for expectant parents and parents of children up to eighteen years. All family constellations are welcome.

What situations can we help with?

  • New parents. Worry, sleep, relationships, and the new daily routine.
  • Single parents. Questions about parenting and cooperation with the other parent.
  • Parents of teenagers. Strategies for conflicts and arguments.
  • Stepfamilies. Support while forming a new family unit.

What can the support include?

Guidance on your child’s emotional development, setting boundaries and consequences, identity and self-image, and social interaction and relationships.
Sessions are free of charge, confidential, and no case records are kept. Support is tailored to your needs.

Parenting courses and groups

  • Content: New ways to respond to your child, research and practical tips, sharing experiences with other parents.
  • Format: Eleven sessions, once a week, 2.5 hours each.
  • Group: Two trained group leaders, eight to ten parents.
  • Registration: Email komet@boden.se with your name and contact details. We will contact you when a new group starts.

  • Purpose: Tools to improve your relationship with your teenager and create a calmer home life.
  • Format: Nine sessions, once a week.
  • Group: Two trained group leaders, eight to ten parents.
  • Registration: Email komet@boden.se with your name and contact details.

  • Purpose: Practical tools to strengthen your relationship with your child and support the child’s development.
  • Format: Four sessions of 2.5 hours.
  • Group: Two trained group leaders, six to eight participants. You practise parenting skills between sessions.
  • Accessibility and languages: Materials in easy-to-read Swedish and several languages (English, Arabic, Somali, Persian, and Finnish). Recruitment materials and summaries are translated into more languages.
  • Registration: Call +46 921 627 98.

Group activities for parents

  • Purpose: For parents who find everyday life intense and challenging.
  • Format: Five evening sessions.
  • Location: Garvaregatan 3 A.
  • Group: Two group leaders. Discussions are adapted to participants’ needs.
  • Registration: Call +46 921 627 98.

  • Purpose: A relationship-based programme that helps you understand and meet your child’s emotional needs, building security and self-esteem.
  • Format: Weekly meetings for eight weeks.
  • Content: Tools to read your child’s emotions and help the child manage feelings effectively.
  • Registration: Call +46 921 627 98.

Parent support for newly arrived families

Being a parent in a new country raises many questions. Here you can get support about parenting and Swedish society. You can meet the social services and ask about child-rearing and development, and what support is available.

Drop-in: Two staff members from the social services are at Boden Integration and Cooperation (BIS) every Thursday 10:00–12:00.

Course: Dealing with seperation

Children in Focus (BIFF) is a course to help you give your child the best possible support during a separation.

Why BIFF?

Often the most difficult part is not the separation itself but ongoing conflict. When children are drawn in, stress can be high. As a parent, you can make a difference.

Purpose

  • Highlight the child’s needs and situation.
  • Offer new perspectives.
  • Build hope that things can improve.
  • Strengthen your supportive parenting.

Format

  • Three to four group sessions, about two hours each.
  • Educational elements and group discussions.
  • Knowledge about attachment, risk factors, and protective factors.
  • Refreshments and participation are free of charge.
    You can participate even if the other parent does not want to or cannot. If both parents wish to participate, you will be placed in separate groups.

Who runs it?

BIFF is part of Save the Children’s programme “A Safe Space”, which equips professionals to support parents and children in family law conflicts. The course is implemented in several municipalities in Sweden.

Contact

Expressions of interest and questions: biff@boden.se

Do you want to access a specific document? Contact Citizen Service, and we will help you retrieve and read the full document.

Contact

Citizen Service

E-mail: kommunen@boden.se

Phone: +46 921 620 00