Good Start for Parents

The main idea of the project is to strengthen the parenting competences of families socially excluded or at risk of social exclusion through a new type of support - professionally moderated parenting groups based on the internationally proven methodology "Lifelong Healthy Parenting Programme for Young Children". The project aims to develop the expertise of social workers in the area of strengthening parenting skills, and will provide parents with intensive support in the development of parenting competences.

The aim of the project is to innovate social services aimed at supporting parenting skills, targeting social and field workers who visit families as part of their services, and providing them with a proven tool to support parents' parenting skills - only on the basis of positive feedback (the so-called serve-return skill). The innovation builds on the existing model of field services, but innovates on the nature, i.e. on the method and content of interventions.