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Families
First
Mission Statement
Through the Families First initiative the Family
Worker – Coffs Harbour Aboriginal Family Community
Care Centre – will endeavour to work with Families
of Aboriginal descent in a way that enhances the wellbeing
for the whole family.
The service will operate in a culturally sensitive
way to build onto the body of knowledge that is a
readily available in the community to establish base
from which to go forward. The Family First worker
will establish relationships with other organisations
in the community to support the need of the client
group; these being families with children 0 to 8 years
of age.
The service will support, educate, advocate and
consult with the client group about their needs to
enhance parenting skills in an endeavour to improve
educational, social and health outcomes for their
children.
Families First is a coordinated strategy sponsored
by the NSW Government to increase the effectiveness
of early intervention and prevention services in helping
families to raise healthy, well adjusted children.
The broad aims and objectives of Families First are,
through a coordinated network of services, to support
parents and carers raising children and help them
to solve problems early before those problems become
entrenched.
Strategies
Families First will better link early
intervention and prevention services and the community
development programs to form a comprehensive service
network capable of providing wide-ranging support for
families raising children.
This
will be achieved by
- Building on and broadening existing service structures
so that a wider range of needs may be met.
- Changing the practice of some services.
- Coordinated service planning and the establishment
of new services where gaps have been identified
and which have been proven to work for families.
Outcomes
- Healthier children and parents.
- Better functioning families who are able to enjoy
and learn from one another.
- Children who are better prepared to learn and develop
when they start school.
- Reduction in the conditions that lead to mental
health problems in children.
- Improve recognition and early intervention for post
natal depression and other mental health problems
in parents with new born babies.
- Greater parental participation in education and
training.
- Communities whose members interact more positively
and which are friendly to bring up children.
- Reduction in the conditions that lead to child
abuse and neglect.
- Reduction in juvenile and adult crime
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