Our Services

Triplets

The service aims to benefit:

Our Primary Activities:

Families who will benefit:

Volunteers support mothers by:

Visiting for a few hours once per week, lending an extra hand to help with a baby or child, being a good listener, helping with shopping or appointments, providing company, assisting with information on parenting or other community supports.

An important part of the work of the volunteers and coordinators is building resilience. They help mothers by being an external support and resource. Volunteers may model new parenting skills, and build on personal and interpersonal strengths. Building resilience allows a person, group or community to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity. Building resilience is effective, can have life long benefits, can be inexpensive or nil cost. Resilience is linked with success in life and prevention of substance use problems, mental disorder and violence. (Hillin, A. and McAlpine, R. 2006)

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Referrals

Referral procedure

Some families may need support other than what we provide - they may need to be referred to other specialised services, for example:

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Important Notes

The safety of volunteers and the support of the parent is a priority.

The Service Co-ordinator considers what current support a family has before agreeing to link a volunteer with the family.

Sutherland Early Support Service does not focus only on disadvantaged families or crisis intervention. Our service is about prevention and building stronger, healthier families and communities.

This service is a non-government organisation that does not receive any recurrent government funding. It is registered as an income tax exempt charity and deductible gift recipient. The service relies on donations, sponsorship and fundraising.  ABN 12 249 893 189.

 

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