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