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Making Changes

Preliminary findings of the Making Changes programme, which closed at the end of 2002 are now available to download here. A full report is available by contacting julie@pippin.org.uk .

The report concludes as to the effectiveness of the Making Changes programme in supporting NHS professionals to make changes in line with Government and professional recommendations that all new parents receive appropriate non-stigmatising and effective support for early parenting.

Our "Making Changes" programme, was funded by the Home Office Family Support Unit, aims to assist the NHS to integrate PIPPIN programmes and practices into mainstream antenatal and postnatal provision. Our aim is to enhance the quality and content of parent education currently being delivered in the NHS, and in doing so to improve the quality of life and well being for parents and their children (aged 0-3 years).

Over the lifetime of the programme the project objectives were:

To offer services in response to educational and support needs of childbearing families in Britain
To offer services which are cost efficient, self-supporting and responsive to the financial limitations of NHS services and new families
To assist families in recognising developmental stages of the family life cycle and the influence of various stages on relationships
To assist families in healthy adaptation to parenthood
To assist families in the development of knowledge, attitudes and life skills
To improve NHS services so that all families giving birth in NHS hospitals will participate in antenatal and postnatal education programmes
To offer programmes for high risk and ethnic minority families who are currently underserved by any NHS antenatal or postnatal parent education programme

From experience we know the benefits for parents report they experience :

Less anxiety
Less vulnerability to depression
Greater satisfaction in their relationship with their baby and partner
Increased confidence as parents
An increase in child-centred attitudes
The ability to use a wider repertoire of skills in coping

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