Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Home-Start Dunfermline offer one-to-one, personalised support for parents with infants and young children who may be lonely, struggling to cope with day to day routines, or at risk of social exclusion. Services include baby massage and family group sessions and a new baby café that has been successfully piloted in other areas. During these group sessions, staff and trained volunteers provide peer and parenting support.
Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service
Read MoreWe recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive. The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children” Since 2016, Inspiring
Read MoreEarlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to
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