Professionals
Working with young parents and their children?
Join our mission to change hearts, minds, policy, and practice so that society better understands young parent families’ experiences and creates systems and services to give them a fair start.
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For those of us working in services that are used by young parent families, we know the complexities our young parents face, and some of the system challenges that make our services hard for them to access.
We work together with families, partners, practitioners and services to change this, through our four strategic goals; explore, practice, share and change.
Within WILD and with our national partners, we are identifying and understanding the inequalities experienced by young parents and their babies, and the system barriers to effectively helping them.
Explore:
Find the best, most effective, and useful evidence
Practice:
Deliver a service that works for families to achieve positive outcomes
Our family and children teams support young parent families across Cornwall to:
Support babies’ growth and development.
Create safe, healthy lives for themselves and their babies.
Build whole-family wellbeing.
Develop secure infant–parent attachment.
Collaborate with young parents to tell their stories, build understanding of their experiences, and campaign for a better future for them and their babies
Share:
Annually, over 400 families comprise our local young parent community. In guiding our work, they’ve built collective power, becoming a local social movement influencing local services and national funders on issues that matter to them.
Over the last few years, they’ve built a community allotment on TV, read their poetry on national radio, promoted a dads’ national reading campaign, curated two national art exhibitions, created a pelvic health training tool, released a children’s rights G7 summit provocation film, and this year launched their unapologetic Rant Club film to challenge the nation’s views of young parenthood.
Their voice is growing, and our vision, as the UK’s largest young parent charity, is to build power to create long-term system change for our 38,000-strong national young parent families community
Change:
Create system conditions that enable a fair start for young parent families
Our flagship work in Cornwall puts into practice our bigger plans to create intergenerational change for young parent families across the UK. Our national network of over 80 health & social care leaders, practitioners, researchers and academics is working together to improve to change policy, practice, and the national narrative for young parents and their babies.
We are privileged to be the largest young parent charity in the UK and invite you to join our mission.