Scope (Redcar & Cleveland)
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Gjori Langeland
Email
Project funding
£123,834
Funding round
The main beneficiaries of this project are parents of disabled children. The two main objectives are:
1. To support more parents at the time of diagnosis or at any time a parent feels overwhelmed with issues relating to their child's disability by:
- Recruiting and training 12 additional parent volunteers who will support up to 72 parents
- Strengthening networks that support parents and enable them to access holistic needs-led services
- Promoting the service and building partnerships with local service providers to address such issues as rural/transport problems, high deprivation and parents with poor literacy skills and low self esteem
- Supporting the extended schools agenda in their support of parents
- Supporting a resource that will be developed locally to extend to the wider family
Local partnerships include: Home Start Teesside; Carers Together Parents Group; Pathfinders and the Cleveland Unit.
2. To give fathers the opportunity to receive support through various delivery methods, through working with other Parenting Fund funded F2F projects and identified partners such as Fathers Direct, to:
- Establish a steering group to analyse the needs of fathers
- Develop new ways of engaging and supporting fathers
- Organise 3 annual 'family events' to share information and practice
- Recruit 10 volunteer befrienders (fathers) over two years to support up to 20 fathers/parents per year
- Produce an information leaflet/pack for fathers
Befrienders/service users are targeted through: word of mouth; distribution of flyers/information via appropriate settings; referrals from local service providers; Face 2 Face website and sign posting from partners.