impact-report-2019

Spotlight on:
Essex FIF Parenting
Essex Family Innovation Fund
Parenting delivered evidence-based
programmes that improved parenting
capacity and the behaviours and life
chances of children and young people.
The service succeeded by creating
awareness, sharing knowledge,
building resilience and enhancing
skills within local communities.
We worked in partnership with the
Ministry of Parenting to provide:
Specifically, this included:
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Assessing each family’s needs to tailor
appropriate support.
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One-to-one and group work support.
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Keyworker support for the whole family.
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Creating action plans to reflect individual
and family’s needs.
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Realistic, achievable and reviewable goals.
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Solution focused approaches.
Of those who received one-to-one support:
84%
49%
of the parents we
worked with said
said they
that their lives
felt safer. 1 improved after
working with us. 1
100%
100%
satisfied with
71%
said their mental
health improved. 1
100%
felt the service
felt they could
had met their
trust their worker. 2 families’ needs. 2
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The Incredible Years: A universal
12 week programme for parents whose
children may be at risk of behavioural
or emotional problems.
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The STOP programme: For parents of
teens and pre-teens, this is a universal
12 week programme based on social
learning theory.
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We also worked closely with schools and
colleges, youth groups, GPs, children’s
centres, Choices and local voluntary
sector organisations.
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Pre and post programme support.
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Access to self-sustaining support groups.
We worked with 471 parents and
carers through direct one-to-one
work, and a further 316 parents
and carers in group work – a total
of 787.
I got so much out of this
course. I almost want it
to carry on for longer as
I feel what I have learnt is
just the tip of the iceberg.
the service. 2 100%
I have the confidence to make
changes and follow them through,
which in turn should create
a more stable home life.
The course has been the exact
help that I was looking for. It
helped us massively as a family.
felt listened to
by their worker. 2
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Data obtained from 67% of service users; 2 34% of young people/families in the service responded to our satisfaction survey.
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