Can Voluntary Support Projects Help Vulnerable Families? The Work of Home-Start

Gibbons, Jane; Thorpe, S.

doi:10.1093/bjsw/19.3.189

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“…Some of the mothers experienced fears that the professionals had power to take their children from them, if they were showing signs of not coping. A study of Homestart by Gibbons & Thorpe (1989) found that volunteers provided a qualitatively different kind of help for mothers than that given by paid professionals. The families involved in the Sutherland Family Network were very ‘low risk’ families and for that reason would not be eligible for help by the Department of Community Services.…”

Section: Friendship and Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

Taggart

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Barclay

2000

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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For analysis of respiratory system mechanics the very complex structure of the respiratory system is strongly simplified to a simple resistance-compliance-model. While for most patients this simplification seems sufficient, in patients with pulmonary disease this model is inappropriate. Additionally, to regional inhomogeneity throughout the lung, large volume accelerations due to the strongly decreased respiratory system compliance together with a mass increase of the patients' lungs, i.e. an increased respiratory system inertance Irs, result in a significant inertive pressure contribution. The aim of this study was to develop a physical inertance model, and its description by conventional methods of respiratory monitoring. Its parameters are adjustable within the physiological range, with Irs between 0.06 and 0.2 mbar.s2.l-1. The model proved well with static and dynamic analysis of respiratory system parameters. Using our physical model it is possible to evaluate new methods of respiratory monitoring and to investigate experimentally the interrelationship of respiratory system parameters.

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Section: Friendship and Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

Taggart

Short

Barclay

2000

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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“…Throughout its development Home-Start has constantly reviewed and adapted practice. Research on Home-Start has found high levels of reported parent satisfaction with the service but more recent studies have emphasised the need to focus on an effectiveness study of the Home-Start service (van der Eykyn, 1982;Gibbons & Thorpe, 1989;Shinman, 1994;Frost et al, 1996;Rajan et al, 1996). To study the impact of the intervention on the well-being of children and families, there is a need to chart change on the most important dimensions over a period of time.…”

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Family Support: Measuring the Benefits to Families

McGuffin¹

2002

Child Care in Practice

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This article outlines the process undertaken by Home-Start, the leading family support agency, to develop and implement a Monitoring Evaluation format that would measure the outcomes for families who had been supported by Home-Start. Home-Start as an organisation began with a small scheme in Leicester in 1973 supporting a few families through volunteers, themselves parents, visiting the families in their own homes, offering support, friendship, reassurance and practical help. It currently has schemes in 320 areas throughout the UK and operates in 27 areas in Northern Ireland. There are 895 families with 2362 children, 1571 of whom are under 5 years of age being supported by over 500 volunteers in Home-Start schemes inNorthern Ireland. The purpose was to devise a format that could be integrated into the normal organisational procedures, while respecting the privacy and dignity of the families being supported. The initial impetus came from within the organisation itself to ensure that the service was constantly under review and maintaining relevance with the needs of families in a constantly changing environment. The development of this process was also in response to the increasing demands from funders for evidence of outcomes for families and cost-effectiveness.

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“…As a direct response to the shortcomings of existing formal services for supporting parents in their own homes in the UK, a number of specialist schemes have emerged, of which Home-Start (van der Eyken, 1986;Gibbons and Thorpe, 1989;Watts, 1999) and Newpin (The Guardian, 1994 are probably the best known examples. There has also been a growth in the provision of out of home support for parents, through services available at family centres (Holman, 1988;Gill, 1988;Cannan, 1992;Southwell, 1994;Lloyd, 1997;Social Services Inspectorate, 1999) and various community-based parenting programmes (Grimshaw and McGuire, 1998).…”

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Social capital and child welfare

Jack

Jordan

1999

Children &Amp; Society

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Social and economic inequalities have risen steeply in the UK over the past 20 years. Children and their families have been particularly disadvantaged by this creeping impoverishment, which is associated with negative effects on parenting capacity and developmental outcomes for children. The social capital of communities, which consists of the cultural resources and inter-personal relationships between members, is also eroded by inequality and social exclusion. Evidence is presented that demonstrates the way in which children's welfare and family functioning are crucially dependent upon the social support available within local communities. It is argued that building social capital in poor communities is a more effective way of promoting children's welfare than the present emphasis on formal child protection and family support services and efforts to increase parenting skills and responsibilities.

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Can Voluntary Support Projects Help Vulnerable Families? The Work of Home-Start

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‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

Family Support: Measuring the Benefits to Families

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