Building Family Values
FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY
Building Family Values
Aim
To promote and reinforce the role of the family unit as a safer more caring environment, fostering social and civic values, responsibility and behaviour, encouraging the young to take up opportunities for education, training and employment.
Priorities
- Promoting the family unit
- Social and civic responsibilities
- Parenting schemes
- Opportunities for children and young people 5-25 years of age
Typical Activities
- Family advocacy and advice; training and mentoring schemes for parents
- Home Start-type work: families struggling to cope with children; support to single parent families
- Early years interventions
- Community volunteering
- Vocational training for young people, especially NEET
- Social and civic education
- Support to children in care or adoption
- Domestic abuse
- Activity schemes for disadvantaged children
- Urban streets youth projects
- Literacy & out of school tuition
Likely Outcomes
- People are confident in their parenting skills
- More people contribute actively to their communities
- Young people at risk stay or return to full time education
- More young people have access to training for employment
- Fewer young people at risk of anti-social behaviour, exclusion from education or lack of employment
- More volunteer support available disadvantaged families
