Building Healthier Communities (previously - African Community Partnership)
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Contact
Elizabeth Oloo
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Project funding
£85,000
Funding round
The purpose of this initiative is to extend the pilot parenting fund project Building Healthier Communities through Families. The aim of the programme is to provide a 'soft approach' to mental and emotional well-being that enables the BME communities to break down barriers to accessing family support services, by strengthening the capacity of ACP and other BME organisations in the delivery of family support services. The project will:
- Train 10 new Parent Advisor Model Facilitators from ACP and other BME organisations. Initial facilitator training will be delivered by the Centre for Parent and Child Support. Second training will be delivered by ACP facilitators and supervised by CPCS.
- To pilot training specifically for families with teenagers at risk of offending. The London Action Trust for Black Self Development will offer training to 20 families and staff from BME community organisations.
- Train a further 24 frontline staff from BME community organisations in the Parent Advisor Model core programme. First Core programme will be delivered by ACP facilitators, while the second training will be delivered by trained facilitators from other BME organisations.
- To hold eight policy impact seminars with experts from Government, national parenting agencies and other experts from local BME groups.
- To further reinvigorate and formalise the project steering group with greater representation from all stakeholders to a total of 11 representatives
- To seek and influence work of local Children's Trusts and Centres by taking part in consultations, meetings and development of Local Area agreements through collective BME sector representation.
- To organise six workshops and seminars to raise awareness of positive mental health, and issues affecting BME families, and continue to offer a quality community-based Family Therapeutic Service.
- Provide intensive support and supervision to voluntary organisations in the delivery of the Parent Advisor Model. Total supervision hours will be 27 hours.
- Develop further BME-led peer support groups linked into the wider networks of parenting and mental health in the local communities