FREE EVENT - International best practice parenting approaches

Summary

This event looks as some examples of parenting support from other countries which are making a significant impact including Kraamzorg from the Netherlands and the Community Mothers programme, as mentioned in Graham Allen's report on Early Intervention..

Programme

9.30      Arrival and refreshments
9.55      Introduction by chair
10.00    George Hosking: Introduction to international parenting approaches and overview of
            Leksand approach in Sweden
10.30    Helen Marshall and Elinor Abramson: Kraamzorg 
11.00    Break
11.15    Brenda Molloy: Community Mothers Programme, Ireland
11.45    Group discussions
12.45    Lunch and networking  
1.30      Close

 
Speakers

George Hosking, CEO WAVE Trust
George is an economist, accountant, psychologist and clinical criminologist. George followed a distinguished career in international business by creating WAVE Trust, an international charity dedicated to identifying and promoting the most effective methods known, worldwide, to reduce violence and child abuse. WAVE’s report Violence and what to do about it identified child abuse and neglect as major root causes of later violent behaviour. WAVE has developed a strategy – ‘70/30’ - to reduce child maltreatment in the UK by 70% by 2030. WAVE’s research has highlighted the crucial role of good attunement between parent and child in ensuring children grow up with empathic pro-social personalities. WAVE advises the UK and Scottish Governments and the Metropolitan Police on violence reduction strategies.
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Helen Marshall
Helen is a trained Nurse and KraamVerzorgende working in The Hague and the surrounding area. She is a British ex-pat and qualified British Paediatric Nurse. She works freelance as a Kraamverzorgende working with new mothers and babies of all nationalities in their homes providing post-natal care and advice.
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Brenda Molloy
Brenda is the Director of the Community Mothers Programme and works for the Health Services Executive in Ireland, has published several papers on the CMP. CMP operates mainly in disadvantaged neighborhoods and is offered to both fathers and mothers – first-timers and some second-timers – of children from birth to twenty four months, to aid the development of parenting skills and improve parents’ confidence and self-esteem.
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