Family Futures – Providing Support to Prince Albert Families with Outreach Worker Home Visits
Nov 22, 2010 | 12:36 PM
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Outreach Worker Home Visits
Qualified outreach workers provide home visits to a current caseload of approximately 150 women and families per month, half on a bi weekly basis and half on an as needed basis.
The majority of these women are pregnant or within the first six months after childbirth. Home visits involve:
- Delivering milk coupons for pregnant, breast feeding, and early postnatal mothers – over 27,000 litres of milk distributed in 2009-2010
- Information, referrals and assistance such as transportation, if needed, to access health care
- Information, referrals, and advocacy to access other services
- Information/education regarding pregnancy, infant care, breast feeding, parenting, etc..
- Intervention, referrals and support to resolve family crisis related to addictions, violence, homelessness, criminal justice involvement, and so on.
- Social support, problem solving, advocating and encouragement
