Bristol charity takes local scheme nationwide to help families stick together
A UK scheme aiming to reduce family breakdown in first-time parents has been launched in association with a Bristol charity.
Care for the Family is working with Bristol Community Family Trust (BCFT) on the Let’s Stick Together campaign.
The two charities will working together to run a programme of preventative relationship education.
More than 50 per cent of family breakdowns occur within three years of a couple having a baby.
The new initiative will take the form of one-hour peer-led sessions to reach both married and non-married parents before this happens.
Chief Executive of Care for the Family, Mark Molden says: “There’s no doubt that the early years of family life are extremely demanding for all parents, both physically and emotionally, which is why we believe that preventative relationship education for new parents can be instrumental in helping to create strong, stable families in which both adults and children thrive. Care for the Family is committed to growing ‘Let’s Stick Together’ into a cost-effective, sustainable programme that becomes a natural and universal element of postnatal provision.”
BCFT has already proven the scheme can work, having run the programme at a local level in Bristol.