Home-Start Worldwide

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Home-Start Worldwide is a not-for-profit family support movement, which started in the United Kingdom and has organisations in 22 countries.

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History

Home-Start was initiated in Leicester, UK during 1973 by Margaret Harrison, [1] [2] before becoming a national organisation in the UK in 1981 with nine branches. [3] In the 1980's it became Britain’s fastest growing social franchise, [1] continuing to grow under the Sure Start scheme of the Blair Government, [2] [4] [5] and, as of 2021, reports that 27,000 families are supported yearly. [6]

Home-Start Worldwide was founded in 1998 as a London-based umbrella-body linking Home-Start associations in 22 countries. [3] [7] [8]

Operating model

In 1988 children's psychiatrist John Bowlby described Home-Start as an example of a service pattern that can help prevent domestic violence, stating that it is a "home-visiting scheme ... staffed by volunteers who work in close liaison with the related statutory services and who also receive support and guidance from a professional", and that by relying on volunteers on it ensures a level of equality between the volunteer and the supported mother, as well as ensuring that the volunteer has sufficient time to support the mother, including at times where employees would not be available such as on the weekend and in the evening. [9]

A 1982 assessment of the operating model found that 85% of the families surveyed claimed considerable positive change, though the volunteers themselves were more pessimistic; they considered only half the families as having shown change, while engagement with 10% of the families was a failure. Social workers who referred the volunteers to the families were in the middle; they believed 50% of families had shown significant positive change, while the remainder had shown some positive change. [10]

Independent studies in the UK have produced mixed results, [11] [12] while research on the Home-Start model in the Netherlands has suggested that the program may be influential in changing parenting behaviours, particularly in high-risk groups. [13] [14] [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Margaret Harrison obituary". The Guardian. 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  2. 1 2 Ritchie, Matt. "Family support charity Home-Start announces the death of founder Margaret Harrison CBE". Charity Times. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  3. 1 2 Our Structure and History, Home-Start, archived from the original on 4 May 2006, retrieved 26 Aug 2012
  4. ↑ "Uncorrected Evidence ss52". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  5. ↑ Letters (2018-10-04). "Build on Home-Start to give kids a chance | Letter from Frank Field MP". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  6. ↑ "Home-Start UK". Home-Start UK. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  7. ↑ "HOME-START WORLDWIDE - Charity 1139678". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  8. ↑ "FIND US WORLDWIDE". Homestart Worldwide. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  9. ↑ Bowlby, John (1988). A secure base: clinical applications of attachment theory. London: Routledge. pp. 107–109. ISBN   978-1-135-07085-4. OCLC   980347693.
  10. ↑ Bowlby, John (1988). A secure base: clinical applications of attachment theory. London: Routledge. pp. 109–110. ISBN   978-1-135-07085-4. OCLC   980347693.
  11. ↑ Young families under stress : outcomes and costs of Home-Start support. Colette McAuley. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 2004. ISBN   1-85935-217-0. OCLC   70656661.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ↑ Frost, Nick; Johnson, Liz; Stein, Mike; Wallis, Lorraine (2006). "Home-start and the delivery of family support". Children & Society. 14 (5): 328–342. doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2000.tb00188.x. ISSN   0951-0605.
  13. ↑ Asscher, Jessica J.; Hermanns, Jo M. A; Deković, Maja; Reitz, Ellen (2007). "Predicting the effectiveness of the Home-Start parenting support program". Children and Youth Services Review. 29 (2): 247–263. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2006.07.002. ISSN   0190-7409.
  14. ↑ Asscher, Jessica J.; Hermanns, Jo M. A.; Deković, Maja (2008). "Effectiveness of the home-start parenting support program: Behavioral outcomes for parents and children". Infant Mental Health Journal. 29 (2): 95–113. doi:10.1002/imhj.20171. ISSN   1097-0355. PMID   28636195.
  15. ↑ Deković, Maja; Asscher, Jessica J.; Hermanns, Jo; Reitz, Ellen; Prinzie, Peter; van den Akker, Alithe L. (2010). "Tracing Changes in Families Who Participated in the Home-Start Parenting Program: Parental Sense of Competence as Mechanism of Change". Prevention Science. 11 (3): 263–274. doi:10.1007/s11121-009-0166-5. ISSN   1573-6695. PMC   2904452 . PMID   20101464.
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