About Us
Home-Start Dudley has provided invaluable support and friendship to families since 1995 helping parents and children achieve positive outcomes and step forward into their future.
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the children of our borough deserve to have the best possible start in life and that parents should have access to the support they need to provide a happy, stable and nurturing environment for their children.
In communities across all four nations, local independent Home-Start’s like ours are part of the wider Home-Start network, helping to transform the lives of children, parents and families. Our trained volunteers and experienced staff offer families caring, compassionate, confidential, non-judgemental support at home and in the community.
We empower parents to overcome difficulties and build a brighter future for the whole family. Home-Start support is effective because it is relationship based and family focused. We listen to families and help their voices be heard. We offer families choice, tailor support to their needs and place a peer-to-peer approach at the centre.
There for the whole family, supporting children’s and parents wellbeing is paramount to us.
Our mission is to help children and families live happier, healthier lives.
As a local charity and volunteer-led organisation, Home-Start Dudley is strongly connected to the people and places that make up the communities in which we operate.
Baby bump, birth and beyond, Home-Start believes no parent should feel alone in raising their children.
We have a focus on the early years of childhood because this significant period lays the foundation for a child’s cognitive, emotional and physical development.
The first 1001 days and the first five years of life are a critical time.
What happens during this very early stage of life influences our experience of childhood and shapes the adult we grow up to be.
We’re there for parents during children’s early years helping them navigate their parenting journey: supporting them as their children grow, as they grow as parents, as they all grow together as individuals and as a family.
Home-Start Dudley is…
All About Families
Free flexible friendly family focused support
in the way families want and need
designed to help them achieve their goals
Volunteer Led
Trained volunteers provide regular, reliable, responsive
practical and emotional support
starting in the family home
Supporting day to day family life
Bringing people together
Our positive impact
Home-Start has a proven, long-lasting positive impact on the development of children and the health, wellbeing and welfare of the family.
Home-Start support results in high rates of improvement among the most stressed families.
2019 Cardiff University independent study
One of the largest studies of family support of its kind
Home-Start raises self-confidence, improves social networks, reduces difficult behaviour on the part of the child and improves mental and physical health.
‘Every Child Matters’
Government Green Paper
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