Embrace UK Community Support Centre
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Alem Gebrehiwot
Email
Project funding
£88,174
Funding round
Embrace UK Community Support Centre
1. Background:-
The "Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC)" Parent Education Programme is a community based programme specifically designed to promote some of the protective factors associated with 'good parenting' such as developing close and warm relationships between parents and children, methods of discipline, fostering self-esteem of children and developing strategies to deal with risky situations.
At the same time SFSC deals with factors in parenting that are associated with increased risk such as inconsistent parenting, harsh discipline, limited supervision and isolation. Importantly, the SFSC approach emphasises that parenting is impacted by the local environment (for example the availability of good schools) and that parents should play an active role in shaping this environment by engaging with community resources.
The SFSC parent programme is based on a strengths based 'facilitative model' which aims to raise the consciousness of parents through a range of methods including empowerment of parents through information and decreasing isolation by helping parents to connect to community resources.
2. The aim of Embrace UK Community Support Centre:-
The aim of Embrace UK is to provide information, advice and guidance to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (particularly but not exclusively of Ethiopian origin) in education and training, welfare benefits, immigration, housing, money and debt, business start-up and employment, health related such as HIV/AIDS and mental health and conduct research as necessary.
3. The title and aim of the project:-
Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities – Parenting programme
Aim of the project:-
The aim of the project is to promote good parenting skills and improving parent and children relationship as well as dealing with factors associated with increased risks such as lack of knowledge of child protection issues and understanding of children's behaviour and others. It also aims to raise the consciousness of parents through a range of methods including empowerment of parents through information and decreasing isolation by helping parents to connect to community resource
4. Information about beneficiaries:-
Beneficiaries of the project are from BME communities in general and African and Caribbean communities in particular. These targeted groups are also migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who need support in their parenting skills due to cultural and language barrier and misunderstanding of rules and regulations related to child protection issues. The project plans to work with 60 parents per year.