Disabled Parents Network
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£111,820
Funding round
The Disabled Parents Network (DPN) is the only national organisation of parents with disabilities. It is user led and provides peer support, information and advice to disabled parents and people with a disability who would like to become parents. We were set up in 1999.
We are using the Parenting Fund to strengthen our network of support for parents with a disability. Over the course of the project we expect to achieve the following:
- meet and consult with all of Disabled Parent Network's Area Volunteers of whom there are twenty-four covering the UK. This will establish whether Area Volunteers are able to do more for DPN
- arrange local meetings (with Area Volunteers and disabled parents in their locality, both existing members and other interested disabled parents)
- map the location of the disabled parents on the peer support register, then contact them and arrange visits if required
- build upon the existing peer support register to make it more effective then monitor its effectiveness
- organise four consultation conferences over the two years of the project for disabled parents to meet and inform the future development of services by DPN. This will build on the DPN Roadshows
- develop the newsletter (Editorial Team) for disabled parents and DPN volunteers
- make contact with hard-to-reach disabled parents (Black and Minority Ethnic, those with sensory impairments, etc).