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Community Mothers Programme annual report 2009
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| Title: | Community Mothers Programme annual report 2009 |
| Authors: | Molloy, Brenda
Harper, Gordan
Health Service Executive (HSE) Dublin Mid Leinster
Health Service Executive (HSE) Dublin North East |
| Publisher: | Health Service Executive (HSE) |
| Issue date: | Aug-2010 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/110453 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | The Community Mothers Programme is facilitated by the Health Service Executive (HSE), and operates in
the HSE areas Dublin North East and Dublin Mid-Leinster. Its aim is to develop the skills of parents of young
children with a focus on health care, nutritional improvement and overall child development. It is a parent
support programme in which friendly local women known as Community Mothers carry out monthly structured
visits to first-time and some second-time parents by appointment during the first two years of their
babies' lives, providing empathy and information in a non-directive way to foster parenting skills and parental
self-esteem. Through the Programme the parents become empowered to believe in their own capabilities
and skills for parenting without being dependent on professionals. The Family Development Nurses who
facilitate the Programme have moved away from the biological model of health care which is working for
people, to a model which involves working with people. In fact the model is one of parent-enablement and
empowerment which encourages parents to learn to cope with difficulties they encounter in bringing up their
children and to find their own solution to their problems. |
| Keywords: | PARENT
PARENTING SKILL
SOCIAL SUPPORT
COMMUNITY |
| Appears in collections: | Community Health
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