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On Friday May 2 Westmeath Community Development welcomed Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke TD, to Edgeworthstown Library. The purpose of the visit was to launch the Community Families Programme previously known as Community Mothers.
Community Families is a home visiting programme which puts parents first, supporting them in their new relationship with their child. Parents are connected with a trained home visitor who supports them as they become confident and grow as parents. The Home visitor provides support and information from pregnancy until child is 3 years old.
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On the day, speakers included Frank Murtagh CEO Westmeath Community Development, Caroline Sheehan National Home Visiting Programme Manager with TUSLA; Caroline Morgan Public Health Nurse with HSE; Catriona Corcoran Coordinator Community Families Longford/Westmeath; Home Visitors, Carol Liston, Claire Mullally,(Westmeath) Rebecca Wynne and Brid Walsh (Longford); and three service users Rebecca Fitzgerald, Anouck Farrell and Aneta Matunova; and Catriona Corcoran Coordinator of the local service.
In his closing remarks Minister Burke commended the Community Families Programme, “this is one of number of excellent and innovative programme run by Westmeath Community Development.”
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The Minister added, "We heard from some parents who are benefitting from Community Families, from the team of home visitors, and they both clearly demonstrate how important a service this is in supporting parents during the early months of their child’s life."
Community Families Programme services both Longford and Westmeath and is funded by TUSLA, the HSE and the SICAP programme. For more information about the Community families programme please contact Catriona Corcoran programme Coordinator email: ccorcoran@westcd.ie or Main Office 044 9348571.
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