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Save Think Family grant 2009/10
The Families at Risk division at DCSF is providing funding to help local authorities, working with partners, ensure more vulnerable families receive targeted family and parenting support. This funding replaces the Parenting Support Strategy grant, the Respect Parenting Practitioner grant and the Family Intervention Project grants. The funding is to:
- implement Think Family reforms to secure better outcomes for children, young people and families with additional needs by coordinating the support they receive from children, adult and family services
- provide a Youth Crime Intervention Project to families in the greatest difficulty with children at risk of offending, including help with parenting, life skills, housing, mental health, drug and alcohol problems and getting children back into school
- offer a Parenting Early Intervention Programme (PEIP) to improve parenting skills through increasing the delivery of evidence-based parenting programmes to parents of children and young people aged 8 to 13 at risk of negative outcomes.
The grant also provides continuing funding for:
- parenting experts and Respect Parenting Practitioners to deliver evidence-based parenting programmes on a one-to-one and group basis targeting parents of children and young people whom local agencies agree to be at risk
- 67 Family Intervention Projects to work with the most challenging families to tackle anti-social behaviour and prevent homelessness
- 12 Family Intervention Projects to work with families living in poverty who have significant barriers to work such as drug and alcohol misuse, poor housing and mental health problems
- and 15 family pathfinders to test the Think Family approach.
Terms and conditions / claim forms
Think Family grant terms and conditions grant letter 2009/10
Further guidance and advice
Free training and support from the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners
Resources for practitioners and other stakeholders working with families affected by parental mental-health problems
Resources for staff working with children of prisoners
Evidence-based resources for staff working with children of prisoners
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Last updated on 03/06/2009
