Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme

Home-based parent support is an important strategy for assisting parents to develop their parenting confidence and capacity, across a range of physical and psychosocial environments. Social, biological, environmental and family influences during the early years have lifelong impacts on children. The...

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Main Author: Munns, Ailsa
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cambridge Publishing 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47456
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description Home-based parent support is an important strategy for assisting parents to develop their parenting confidence and capacity, across a range of physical and psychosocial environments. Social, biological, environmental and family influences during the early years have lifelong impacts on children. The introduction of an Indigenous, peer-led parent support programme in a remote, socially disadvantaged town in Western Australia has allowed the local community to develop culturally appropriate strategies to support their own families. Their anecdotal evidence has demonstrated effective engagement with progrmme visitors with the families, using a partnership approach to promote behaviour and attitudinal changes to parenting.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-474562017-01-30T15:33:32Z Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme Munns, Ailsa Community Mothers Programme home visiting community partnership Indigenous parent programme parenting Home-based parent support is an important strategy for assisting parents to develop their parenting confidence and capacity, across a range of physical and psychosocial environments. Social, biological, environmental and family influences during the early years have lifelong impacts on children. The introduction of an Indigenous, peer-led parent support programme in a remote, socially disadvantaged town in Western Australia has allowed the local community to develop culturally appropriate strategies to support their own families. Their anecdotal evidence has demonstrated effective engagement with progrmme visitors with the families, using a partnership approach to promote behaviour and attitudinal changes to parenting. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47456 Cambridge Publishing fulltext
spellingShingle Community Mothers Programme
home visiting
community partnership
Indigenous parent programme
parenting
Munns, Ailsa
Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme
title Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme
title_full Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme
title_fullStr Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme
title_full_unstemmed Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme
title_short Yanan Ngurra-ngu Walalja Halls Creek Community Family Programme
title_sort yanan ngurra-ngu walalja halls creek community family programme
topic Community Mothers Programme
home visiting
community partnership
Indigenous parent programme
parenting
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47456