Single Parent Action Network (Cornwall)
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Sue Cohen
Email
Project funding
£117,880
Funding round
Our programme has four interconnecting strands:
- The development of a partnership between SPAN and Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change (CN4C) in the delivery of the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities (SFSC) parenting programme to socially excluded families in Cornwall
- The training of facilitators living in deprived/isolated areas to deliver the accredited SFSC course to parents living in their communities
- The development of a Practitioners Forum on SPAN's interactive website to support training and peer group learning
- Strengthening infrastructure support with whole family support agencies in disadvantaged areas, helping to mainstream the SFSC course into their service delivery.
In particular the programme we will:
- Roll out the SFSC parenting support programme to isolated / disadvantaged families in Cornwall especially in rural areas, coastal towns and social housing estates
- Specifically target and involve lone parents, parents with teenage children, and teenage parents in the delivery of the programme
- Train grassroots facilitators by the REF (Race Equality Foundation) to deliver the course in their own communities including areas with high levels of deprivation in Cambourne, Pool, Redruth, the clay villages, Newquay, Helston and Penzance
- Establish a designated Practitioners Forum on the SPAN interactive website for SFSC facilitators from South West England to share training, peer group learning, non-confidential issues in providing parenting support
- Signpost parents and facilitators to family / parenting resources in their localities
- Disseminate and work to integrate the SFSC course in the services of Children's Centres and college programmes across Cornwall.