Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund

Year 2 Awardee

Danestone Community Centre

Community Connector - Young Mums

About the project

Starting a family is a milestone in many people's lives. It can also be a stressful time and many parents experience mental ill health; mental ill health of parents can have a negative impact on the development of their children. The Community Connector supporting young mums, has been an enormous success within our community. In a short period of time, we have seen a great increase in our young parents attending the centre with the Community Connector supporting them to reduce isolation and build up a local network for parents. To-date we have four hundred on our database that we communicate in a regular basis. With the continued funding this role will develop an improve on our programme of affordable activities that will make this post sustainable by the end of the funding.

Type of initiative funded: Peer Support

Funding awarded: £9828