Children We Support are Published Authors!
The Children of My Time have had their poetry published in this fantastic book! Seen & Heard contains poetry from the perspective of children and parents affected by imprisonment and…
Welcome to The My Time Project website
Our main aim is to support children aged 5 to 18 years who have a parent in prison. Our support is community based. Some children we support have regular contact with their parent in prison; others have no contact at all.
Our founder Dr Lorna Brookes has spent 10 years running therapeutic peer support groups and individual sessions for children with a parent in prison.
Lorna is also a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University; she wrote her PhD on how prisoners’ families experience community based support and continuously strives to bring together research and practice. She is also an international prisoner’s children representative, sitting on the board of INCCIP (International Coalition for Children with Incarcerated Parents).
How we work
We are Child Led: The My Time Project is ‘a service created with children, for children’. We passionately believe that children are able to form sensible and effective solutions to their own problems if they are given the correct opportunities to do so.
Our Mission: The My Time Project’s mission is for all children with a parent in prison to be able to access specialised community-based support. Our mission is guided by our value base. Click here to be directed to our Core Values page.
Our Funders: Huge thanks to The Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid (DCSA) for their generosity, providing funding towards our Merseyside provision
What people say
Knowing my partner & children could access support while I was in prison was a weight off my mind.
The groups are so fun and this is the only place I can talk to other kids about how I really feel.
Support groups for my daughters have been instrumental in helping them cope with their father's imprisonment.
Latest News
My Time Children Attending The Everyman Pantomime.
We are delighted to announce that the children supported by The My Time Project are going to see the Snow Queen pantomime this November thanks to a very generous donation by the…
The My Time Project is coming to Knowsley.
Exciting news. We will soon be launching The My Time Project Knowsley. We are really excited to announce that we have been awarded funding to run a pilot service to…
Mad Science Fun with Chemistry for All!
On the 23rd July we had the exciting opportunity to hold a group for the children run by the Chemistry for All Team from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). We…
Merseyside Woman of the Year 2018 – Category Winner!
The purpose of the Merseyside Women of the Year event is to celebrate the achievements of women, to reward the best of the best and leave a legacy of amazing…
Our Founder, Lorna Brookes, is in The Lancet
The Lancet is one of the world’s best known academic journals. We are therefore thrilled that Lorna’s work was chosen as a spotlight profile piece for the Lancet Psychiatry. This…
Our Partners
At The My Time Project we take a partnership approach to our work. Here are some of the amazing organisations we work with:
