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Home-Start is a friend to families with young children, and as such we offer emotional support and practical guidance to families with young children – at least one child should be under school-going age. Home-Start understands that a child’s early years are crucial and a time where interventions are most effective in yielding long term benefits. Home-Start therefore concentrates on supporting families with young children.
Home-Start is unique in that trained volunteers visit families in their own home to help parents/families so that they might be able to give their young children the best possible start in life.
Home-Start helps to increase the confidence and independence of families by:
- Visiting families in their own homes to offer support, friendship and practical assistance
- Reassuring parents that their childcare problems are not unusual or unique
- Encouraging parents' strengths and emotional well-being for the ultimate benefit of their children
- Trying to get the fun back into family life
Our volunteers, who have parenting experience themselves, can offer:
- Precious time for listening and talking
- Help with the children
- A break for parents
- Practical help and reassurance
- A chance to meet other parents in similar situations
- Support to use local services and resources
Parents ask for Home-Start's help for all sorts of reasons:
- They may feel isolated in their community, have no family nearby and be struggling to make friends
- They may be finding it hard to cope because of their own or a child's physical or mental illness
- They may have been hit hard by the death of a loved one
- They may be really struggling the with emotional and physical demands of having twins or triplets - perhaps born into an already large family
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5 April 2012 - News by Home-Start South Africa
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