HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE - PARENTING EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
BACKGROUND
The HSE, in partnership with Department of Health and others, have
developed an area-based approach to community health and wellbeing
improvement, with a particular focus on areas of deprivation. The
area-based approach will see the implementation of enhanced Health and
Wellbeing programmes within areas that have the greatest levels of
disadvantage and highest proportion of young families. They deliver
evidence informed services to improve local population health and
wellbeing outcomes. In Phase 1 rolling out from **Apply on the
website**, **Apply on the website** sites aligned to the Sl?intecare
Healthy Communities Programme are participating. In **Apply on the
website** NEIC has been added to the funding stream from the
Department of Health.
The aim of the parenting pillar of the Sl?intecare Healthy
Communities Programme is to enable delivery on a universal basis, of a
defined set of general parenting programmes in each of the chosen
sites and aligned Community Health Network areas. This will increase
access for all families to evidence based parenting programmes. These
interventions, while provided universally to families with children
**Apply on the website** years, will seek to engage those with greater
needs. Greater need may be due variety of circumstances such as living
in disadvantaged areas, child- or family-based issues (e.g. child or
parent with disability, living in temporary accommodation) or
membership of a specific group (e.g. travellers) and will be informed
by local knowledge.
A core outcome for the Sl?intecare Healthy Communities Programme is
improved health and wellbeing for children including prevention of
childhood obesity. The evidence points to the important role parenting
skills play in children?s development. Access to evidence based
parenting programmes may be a valuable addition to healthy childhood
programmes and childhood obesity prevention approaches within
communities.
The HSE, in partnership with TUSLA, are inviting Expressions of
Interest from organisations with a track record of working effectively
with communities supporting parents, to deliver universally accessible
evidence based parenting programmes in one the areas in the Expression
of Interest form.
Eligible applications will be assessed by TUSLA and HSE
representatives from the national and local CHO level. Organisations
selected to deliver parenting programmes as part of the Healthy
Communities Initiative will:
* be funded to deliver a contracted level of service;
* have to access to funded places on accredited training for the
preferred evidence based parenting programmes;
* be supplied with relevant programme materials and resources to
support programme delivery.
THE COMPLETED EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORM SHOULD BE RETURNED TO:
**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** AND **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**
BY 5PM ON WEDNESDAY **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**/8/**APPLY ON THE
WEBSITE**
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Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
