A specially trained Young Parent’s practitioner works with individual families in their own homes, or other community locations, delivering an enhanced service working to your individual strengths, supporting, and encouraging each person to reach goals and aspirations for themselves and their babies.
Home visits start during pregnancy and continue until the child turns two. Throughout the programme journey, young parents and a Young Parent Practitioner will work on different aspects of the pregnancy and early years together, including parent-child attachment, breastfeeding, immunisation, child development and school readiness.
Dependant on the individual needs, the Young Parent Practitioner will work alongside young parents, helping to improve on things such as self-confidence in themselves and their parenting capacity as well as supporting on other issues such as support with goal setting, housing, education and employment and addressing health needs such as signposting to stop smoking services, contraception and sexual health services.