HomeStart is one of the UKs leading family support organisations and is now working in 15 other coun

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Who We Are

• Home-Start is one of the UKs leading family
  support organisations and is now working in 15
  other countries
• www.home-start.org.uk
• www.home-start-int.org

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The Need

• loneliness and isolation
• family breakdown
• post natal depression
• poverty
• ill health inc HIV/AIDS and disability
• domestic violence
• multiple births
• mobility/refugees

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Where do the referrals come from?

• Health Visitor 50
• Social Worker 15
• Self 20
• Other Health Referrals 5
• Other 10

UK approximate figures
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How We Help

• Volunteers offer
• friendship
• emotional support
• practical help
• ...to families in their own homes
• Schemes also offer group support and refer to
  other agencies

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Home-Start research findings

• 16 studies mainly qualitative or not
  randomised/control positive findings
• Recent JRF study (McAuley and Knapp) no
  differences between H/S and control group

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Research issues

• Responding to challenging findings
• Should Home-Start change its methods ?
• Should researchers use different tools to measure
  broad brush/holistic interventions?