There are several ways that you can help Home-Start Medway in a voluntary capacity:
Home visiting
Group support
Trustee
Fundraising
Our home visiting volunteers provide support to parents in many different situations, such as mental health problems, bereavement, multiple births, loneliness, illness, disability, and those who are just finding it hard to cope. Volunteers are selected on their suitability to support a family.
Home-Start volunteers offer non-judgemental support, building families’ resilience in a practical and emotionally balanced way.
Our volunteers are local people, from all walks of life, who have parenting experience. They attend a preparation course over a 6 week period attending a number of sessions, covering subjects such as safeguarding, parenting stratergies etc.
A volunteer will benefit from regular support and supervision. For home-visiting they are matched with a suitable family, and will visit that family once a week until support is no longer needed.
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