Family Futures – Providing Support to Prince Albert Families with Outreach Worker Home Visits

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

Visit http://www.familyfuturespa.ca for more information.

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