We ran our ‘Empowering Families’ course at a Sure Start Children’s Centre in Maidstone and the reaction was incredible. Even before we got half way the parents loved what they were achieving and wanted more training to be able to take the approach out into their community and support their peers. This inspired us to create a programme, which would take parents from where they are to where they wanted to be.

The parents realised that by being part of the community they would have more empathy and rapport with their peers and be able to attract them into the Children’s Centre. Also they felt able to engage with Dads and the harder to reach families.
 

Success

Since then we were successful in funding a pilot Parent Champion programme with Awards for All (part of The Big Lottery Fund).

Even more Success

And today we are delighted to announce a further grant of £77,000 for a 2-year rollout of the programme in 2 Children’s Centres in Medway, see the Press Release.

There is now a dedicated website for this programme www.parentchampion.com.

 

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