Home-Start Central Lancashire
There for parents when they need us most,
because childhood can't wait
Home-Start Central Lancashire is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times. We are there for parents and children when they need us the most because we know that childhood can’t wait.
Home-Start works with families in communities right across Central Lancashire. Families struggling with post-natal depression, early childhood development, isolation, challenging behaviour, physical and mental health problems, bereavement and many other issues receive the support of a volunteer who will spend around three hours a week in a family’s home supporting them in the ways they need.
Home-Start Central Lancashire also provides up to date training for volunteers and parents, supports families practically and emotionally to increase their capacity to cope with and enjoy life events such as Christmas and school holidays, and helps families to access and engage with other agencies and support.
The earliest years make the biggest impact
The earliest years make the biggest impact: Home-Start makes sure those years count so that no child’s future is limited.
Children who are raised in a stable, loving, family environment are more likely to have a positive and healthy future.
Home-Start works because our volunteers are parents. They understand how hard it can be. They work alongside parents, in their own homes, to help them cope with the stresses and strains of life and make sure they have the skills, confidence and strength they need to nurture and develop their children.
Our Vision
That inequalities are reduced and every family feels valued, protected and supported so that parents, carers and children can reach their full potential.
Our Aims
Home-Start Central Lancashire aims to increase the confidence, capacity and independence of families by;
- Offering emotional, practical and educational support along with friendship to parents, carers and their children.
- Recruiting, supporting, training and developing new volunteers, and providing further training for existing volunteers
- Supporting families using a trauma informed approach and reflective learning
- Visiting families in their own homes where the dignity and identity of each child and adult can be protected
- Increasing parent/carer understanding of issues affecting family life such as adverse childhood experience, safeguarding and contextual safeguarding etc.
- Promoting and encouraging early childhood development through play and learn.
- Reassuring parents that difficulties in bringing up children are not unusual and support and encourage them to enjoy family life.
- Developing relationships with families in which time can be shared and understanding can be developed.
- Identifying and working closely with local services and agencies to better support them and those they serve reach the outcomes needed.
The Home-Start Network
Home-Start schemes are rooted in the communities they serve. We are managed locally but are supported by a national organisation, Home-Start UK, which offers direction, training, information and guidance to schemes and ensures consistent and quality support for parents and children.
Home-Start has a proven, lasting, positive impact on the development of children and the health and welfare of the family.
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