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020 7605 0801 Email: ellie@upg.org.uk 19th October, 2011 Press contact Ellie Suggate Press Release Parenting boost for Hammersmith and Fulham A new three year parenting programme will be coming to Hammersmith and Fulham thanks to a 300,000 grant award from Big Lotterys Reaching Communities Fund to develop an extensive parenting partnership project from the Masbro Centre. The Parenting Partnership is an innovative project that will support a minimum of 345 parents to access 36 parenting groups run across the borough between January 2012 and December 2014. These evidence based parenting groups, known to have significant positive impacts on families and run by skilled parenting practitioners, will support parents to gain self confidence and empowerment through increasing their ability to manage their childs behaviour and support their development. The project will go on to train and support a minimum of 36 empowered parents to run their own parent groups themselves, in their own neighbourhoods, creating a network of sustainable support for families. Urban Partnership Group has been co-ordinating parenting support in Hammersmith and Fulham since 2008 through the Parenting Co-ordinator Service, a project funded by both the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and the John Lyons Trust. This successful project, based at the Masbro Centre, has seen hundreds of families across the borough access parenting support groups in
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the form of Triple P and Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities. This new funding will build on this expertise, allowing Urban Partnership Group to offer targeted support via outreach to those parents who often are unable to access statutory or mainstream services. The project will look to ensure that fathers, lone parents, parents with languages other than English, and those who are least likely to ask for help, are all provided with the tailored support they need. Urban Partnership Group is proud of the positive work they have undertaken with children and families in Hammersmith and Fulham for many years, including the Masbro Childrens Centre and Masbro Youth Club services, and would like to thank the Big Lottery for recognising this positive work through the offer of this grant. We look forward to being able to expand and strengthen this positive work through the Parenting Partnership project. Ellie Suggate Parenting Projects Manager at the Masbro centre said We are absolutely delighted with the award. This is a real boost to parents in the Borough. Good parenting can be a game changer in childrens lives and this fund will focus on vulnerable families giving them real hope for the future. ENDS

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