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Community Mothers Programme annual report 2011
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| Title: | Community Mothers Programme annual report 2011 |
| Authors: | Health Service Executive (HSE)
Molloy, Brenda |
| Publisher: | Health Service Executive (HSE) |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2012 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/237551 |
| 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 by appointment to first-time parents during the first year 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 solutions to those problems. |
| Keywords: | WOMEN
COMMUNITY CARE
CHILD HEALTH
PARENTING SKILL |
| Appears in Collections: | Community Health
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