Family Approach

Family Approach is a partnership project with staff from Fife Gingerbread and Citizens Advice and Rights Fife. We will be supporting families across three specific areas of Fife.  Offering the whole family holistic support to help maximise their income, build confidence and overcome barriers to secure and maintain sustainable education, training or employment.

Family Approach is delivered at a pace that meets the needs of each individual family member. The project is centered around tailored one-to-one support, family learning, benefits, and money advice, group work, and employability support. Additionally, we have a network of volunteers who can provide buddy support to families in order to help them grow in confidence and overcome isolation.

Who will we support?

• Families with a child under the age of 1

• Families where mum is under the age of 25

• Lone parent families

• Families where a parent or child has a disability

• Families with 3 or more children

• Ethnic minority families
  

……and live in any of the following ward areas:

• Cardenden, Lochgelly and Benarty

• Kirkcaldy Central

• Kirkcaldy East

• Methil, Buckhaven &Wemyss

What will we do?

• Provide one-to-one support, and family learning opportunities within and out with the family home.

• Work together to create an action plan.

• Provide holistic support through the ups and downs of family life from our experienced skilled workers and ‘buddy’ volunteers.

• Offer a wide range of opportunities to meet new people and experience new situations through a range of groups and activities. Helping families build their confidence, skills and become a part of their local community.

• Help parents remove barriers to becoming employed including traditional help with CV’s and interview skills or help find more suitable or better employment.  

• Help connect families with specialist support agencies and community activities.

• Offer a Financial Inclusion worker, who will support families with benefits advice, money management, income maximisation, budgeting and debt.

• Provide opportunities for families to help improve and shape the Family Approach project going forward.