Brophy Family and Youth Services
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
ProjectSettling in to parenting: Best-practice skills building for new mothers experiencing disadvantage
Amount$25,933
Date2019
ProgramCommunity
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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Reducing inequality | Focusing on building parenting capacity as a protective factor for equitable health outcomes |
Building organisational capacity | Co-design an evidence-based program that complements mainstream services, to enable Victorian health professionals to provide appropriate postnatal support for women experiencing disadvantage |
Collaboration and partnership | Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies in Dandenong and Hume, Foundation House, Young and Pregnant Parenting, Launch Housing, Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, midwives at Dandenong, Sunshine and Royal Women’s Hospitals |
Building the parenting skills of disadvantaged new mothers through targeted postnatal support
In 2018, a Victorian Government Inquiry into Perinatal Services identified an increasing trend for early discharge of mothers and a lack of appropriate parenting support services. This project responds by bringing together a range of agencies to develop and pilot an extended support program for vulnerable new mothers in the months following birth, delivered by professionally trained volunteer birth support companions known as doulas.
Birth for Humankind’s professionally trained volunteer doulas provide one-to-one care and support to expectant mothers, who are referred by case workers, social workers and healthcare providers. The doulas provide complementary support to the existing maternal health care system. Birth for Humankind will work with five partner agencies including Sunshine and Dandenong Hospitals, Foundation House and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health in a co-design process to develop an extended support model of postnatal care and a toolbox of resources. It is intended to complement existing clinical services, whilst addressing a capacity gap in current mainstream services and resources.
Snapshot:
“I had been walking alone for so long…before my doula started walking with me. By the end of the tunnel… with my doula’s support, I could be ready to embrace my daughter as my companion in life.” Client, Birth for Humankind.
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