This project supports women and children who have escaped domestic violence to rebuild their lives and develop healthy relationships through connection in their community. When women and children are finally safe and resettled, most crisis and specialist DV services withdraw, and they can be left very isolated. Due to violence, they’ve lost these vital connections ...
Home-Start Family Services
The Phoenix Project
GOAL
$8,880
Australia > NSW > Metro and Regional
Field of Interest
- Housing and homelessness
- Individual/family services and support
Target Population
- People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
- Early years (0-5)
Home-Start Family Services
Home-Start helps kids thrive!
We support families with young children who are alone and struggling due mental health, illness, disabilities, poverty, isolation or domestic violence.
Professional Family Workers, and our wonderful local teams of trained and supported volunteers, provide free home visits, hands-on help, resources, transport, referrals and connection. Parents and children are listened to, and included in decisions about the support they receive.
We don't limit the time families can receive our support. It may last a few months or for years.
By being supported, parents can build skills, feel more capable and confident in parenting, and are better connected to their community.
With Home-Start support, parents have the practical and emotional help they need to ensure their children have a better start to life, and can go to reach their full potential.
Project Summary
This project supports women and children who have escaped domestic violence to rebuild their lives and develop healthy relationships through connection in their community.
When women and children are finally safe and resettled, most crisis and specialist DV services withdraw, and they can be left very isolated. Due to violence, they’ve lost these vital connections and are now parenting alone, dealing with the impacts of trauma on their children. They are now responsible for all parenting, household
tasks and finances.
Their mental health suffers further under the strain, making healing and recovery more difficult, and returning to the violent or controlling relationship can seem preferable to struggling alone.
Our specially trained, screened and supported volunteers are introduced to a struggling family whom they home visit every week, providing company, hands on and emotional help, transport, support at appointments, resources and links to the community.
Our professional Project Coordinator continually monitors the visits to ensure everyone’s continued safety.
Project Outcomes
Having a friendly, safe person supporting them every week, mothers and children become less anxious and more relaxed, and children enjoy a childhood safe from violence, filled with happy childhood experiences. Some family and volunteer links last for many years, therefore the impact will continue on in future generations.
Outcomes include:
* Reduced return to violent relationships
* Reduced isolation for mothers and children
* Increased connection in their local community
* Improved mental health for mothers and children
* Improved child behaviour and child development
* Improved school attendance
* Reduced risk of homelessness
* Improved skills of mothers - parenting, financial, employment
We will use pre and post surveys, and seek periodical feedback from participating mothers and volunteers to measure outcomes and to gather evidence of the impact of the project.
Budget Breakdown
TOTAL BUDGET: $209,678
FUNDING
| Funding source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Primary Health Network | $97,782 |
| Home-Start National | $30,289 |
| In Kind - Value of Volunteer hours - 3hrs/wk x 52 wks x 10 vols x $46.62 (ABS) | $72,727 |
| Coordinator Vehicle, phone costs - to home visit all families and volunteers over 12 months | $8,880 |
EXPENSES
| Expense item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Project Coordinator wages - 24hrs/week x 52 weeks | $61,824 |
| Volunteer training and program costs, volunteer fuel reimbursement | $11,840 |
| Coordinator Vehicle, phone costs - to home visit all families and volunteers over 12 months | $8,880 |
| Clinical supervision and evaluation costs | $15,140 |
| Administration | $8,978 |
| Home-Start National Cash Contribution | $30,289 |
| In Kind - Value of Volunteer hours - 3hrs/wk x 52 wks x 10 vols x $46.62 (ABS) | $72,727 |
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