Grant to Home-Start Glasgow North (360G-WomensFundScotland-FR-0054825)
Funding Organization
£5,000
Recipient Organization
to contribute contribute to the cost of salaries, art materials, and electronic equipment for their Blank Canvas project (a perinatal support group).
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 5000 |
| Amount Awarded | 5000 |
| Award Date | 2020-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | S01010320 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | DZ |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Glasgow City |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Ruchill - 06 |
| Data Source | https://www.womensfundscotland.org/ |
| Grant Programme: Code | 2020-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Grant Programme: Title | WFS COVID-19 |
| Last Modified | 2023-03-17T12:54:10Z |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 11 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2021-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2020-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | SC032736 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | SC280855 |
| Recipient Org: Description | The purpose of our organisation is to support families with at least one child 5 and under, living in North Glasgow and North Lanarkshire (HSGN&NL), struggling to cope with factors such as poor mental health, isolation, physical health issues, domestic abuse, addictions, poverty, bereavement, single parenting or multiple birth. Many of our families are asylum seekers, refugees or come from BME backgrounds. During 2018/19 HSGN&NL supported 237 families. Our main aims are: ? To ensure the welfare and protection of children ? To support at least 220 families each year to improve health and wellbeing, parenting skills, increase confidence and resilience. ? To support parents and extended family throughout the antenatal and perinatal phase and beyond. ? To recruit, train and support at least 35 suitable new volunteers each year, with parenting experience to work alongside families. ? To promote health and wellbeing. Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire is committed to ensuring the welfare of children is uncompromised and we support the families in whatever way is required to develop confidence, resilience and appropriate skills to build relationships with their children. HSGN&NL receive referrals from a variety of sources ? Health Visitors, Social Work, Education, Clinical Psychologists and other voluntary and statutory organisations. Families can also self-refer. Health Visitors and Social Workers in NL highlighted the lack of family support resources within communities who are amongst the most deprived in Scotland and this resulted in HSGN opening a satellite office in Bellshill in 2017 to address this gap. The profile of families referred to NL service has become more complex over the past year with an increase in issues such as poverty, domestic abuse, addictions and impact of ACEs. HSGN&NL have played a pivotal role in developing family support and are now regarded as one of the key family support organisations in both areas. HSGN&NL have a variety of support services which address the needs of local families: Home-visiting volunteers: Volunteers are crucial to HSGN&NL. Without volunteers, we would be unable to provide peer support for parents, which could result in family breakdown. Families are carefully matched with an extensively trained volunteer, who visit them at home for 2-3 hours every week offering emotional and/or practical support. Support is flexible and tailored to each family?s needs, focusing on growth and empowerment and can include, ?listening ear?; parenting support; accompanying parents to appointments, practical help with positive routines, English language and filling in forms and advocacy support. Group support: In addition to home visiting volunteer support, HSGN&NL provide a variety of weekly group activities for families who do not need or want a home visiting volunteer or who struggle with isolation and could benefit from the dynamics of a group environment. ? Family Group offers a varied, structured programme, facilitated by our Group Workers. Groups aim to help vulnerable parents overcome isolation and grow in confidence. Activities are based around healthy eating, arts and crafts, music, singing and storytelling and are focused on parent-child attachment and relationship building. The group is predominantly attended by mums and children. ? Dads Group offers a safe space for dad to build confidence and strengthen relationships through with their children through bonding and attachment. ? Café Stork is a perinatal drop-in for mums and their babies based in Parkhead. Originally organised by Health Improvement Team and supported by HSGN volunteers, who have been trained by Bluebell, CrossReach.(specialist training in low mood). In February 2020 HSGN&NL officially took over the management of the group and is now facilitated by our Group Worker with continued support from our dedicated volunteers. Mums can drop-in once or attend over a period of time to chat and make friends with other new mums helping connect them to their community. ? Blank Canvas is a perinatal group for mums which began in February 2020. The group is facilitated by a Peer Support Worker, with lived experience who has midwifery qualification and can relate to the needs of new mums. Activities are based around journals, arts and crafts and provide an opportunity for mums with low mood to express their feelings through creative platforms. ? Walk, talk and play (NL) offers mums and children a space to feel relaxed and comfortable with opportunities to learn, share skills and have fun with a friendly, caring team. Book Bug is delivered at every session which is enjoyed by the group. Video Interaction Guidance: VIG is a strengths-based intervention where parents are guided to reflect on short video clips of their own positive interactions with their children. It is proven to be extremely effective in strengthening parent-child relationships. Perinatal Peer Support: Although delivering perinatal support is part of HSGN&NL?s core service, focused perinatal support was developed around 7 years ago as a more specialist service and we are now regarded as a key player in the field of perinatal family support. Our unique model of ?wrap round? support enables us to support both parents before, during and after pregnancy ? throughout the perinatal period and beyond. HSGN&NL provide specially trained volunteers to visit parents before baby is born and during the first year of life. The uniqueness of our model enables us to holistically support the family until the youngest child goes to school, if required. Our support is not time limited nor prescriptive and can carry on until the youngest child turns 5 years of age if required. Rapid Response Perinatal Support: Intensive support for families who have complex needs and need immediate support. Rapid Response support is provided by a Family Support Co-ordinator who will support mum, dad and siblings throughout the immediate crisis then signpost to home visiting volunteer or group support thereafter, if required. During COVID-19, all our services and training were adapted to be delivered online. Digital support will be added to our portfolio of services going forward. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | https://www.homestartglasgownorth.org.uk |