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Mentoring Mums – Home visiting support for new mothers

Children's Protection Society
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Mentoring Mums volunteers will be providing a supportive relationship for socially isolated highly vulnerable women, either pregnant or with babies up to 6 months old. Volunteers are required to 'walk along side' the mother and support her to develop her parenting

Mentoring Mums is a NAPCAN award winning volunteer program where trained volunteers are matched with a mum with a baby up to 12 months of age. The volunteer develops a trusting relationship with the new mother, by visiting her in her own home, offing supportive conversation about early parenting, listening to her challenges and highlighting her strengths. Mothers referred to this program are experiencing high levels of social isolation, and often other vulnerabilities such as post-natal depression, exposure to family violence, poverty, asylum seekers, or a history of trauma and abuse. Mentoring Mums volunteers encourage mums to develop and maintain links to the broader community, by accompanying mums and infants to appointments, encouraging the mother and infant to join a playgroup or mothers group. At times the Mentoring Mums volunteer will be working closely with the Family Services Social Worker to assist the mother/family to reach any parenting goals they may have identified.

You can not apply for this role as it is no longer available.