Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families
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Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families (see http://www.healthymothers-healthyfamilies.com/) is a single day workshop run by an occupational therapist, Associate Professor Helen Bourke-Taylor and a Women's Health General Practitoner, Dr Fiona Jane (see http://www.healthymothers-healthyfamilies.com/node/2043
). Together the presenters provide a day for mothers of children and young people with a disability to re-focus or their own health and wellbeing. The workshops have been run in Melbourne, Sydney, Geelong, Albury and Chicago, to over 400 women. The program is based in research and has been evaluated to demonstrate that participants report improved health, well being and capacity to redeisgn their lifestyles around their own life goals alongside family and caring responsibilities.
Healthy Mothers Healthy Families helps mothers. Currently, the program is unfunded. Many women in Australia can benefit from this program if it becomes more widely available.
The mission of the Healthy Mothers Healthy Families program is to support, empower and encourage mothers of a child with a disability to learn about, and create a healthy lifestyle that fosters their own health and well-being, alongside a healthy, happy family life. The workshops and website provide mothers with information, research findings and the shared wisdom of other mothers, to better support mothers to meet their important daily responsibilities caring for their child with a disability and family, whilst also caring for themselves. Healthy Mothers Healthy Families advocates for appropriate, evidence informed support that strengthens and empowers parents, carers and families.
Natalie Elder attended a workshop and shared her story in January 2017, see http://www.theage.com.au/national/health/no-respite-for-mothers-caring-for-children-with-a-disability-20170105-gtmfiu.html
The Healthy Mothers Healthy Families team aim to make the day workshop freely available to mothers caring for a child or young person with a disability nationwide. We need help to reach our aim.
Any donation that you make will go directly to funding delivery of day workshops by the presenters in areas of Australia. The workshops are run on Saturday or Sunday. Each workshops caters to 35 or so mothers in a local community. No mother will pay to attend if the organisers can successfully gain funding to provide this serviceie to the community of families who are raisng a child with a disability.
If you know of a mother in your family or local community who cares and supports a child or person with a disability, please consider offering your financial support to this program. We thank you. Mothers who attend this program in the future thank you. This program is worthwhile--please read some qualitative results from the prgram evaluation (all names have been changed to protect the privacy of mothers). See http://www.healthymothers-healthyfamilies.com/node/2069
). Together the presenters provide a day for mothers of children and young people with a disability to re-focus or their own health and wellbeing. The workshops have been run in Melbourne, Sydney, Geelong, Albury and Chicago, to over 400 women. The program is based in research and has been evaluated to demonstrate that participants report improved health, well being and capacity to redeisgn their lifestyles around their own life goals alongside family and caring responsibilities.
Healthy Mothers Healthy Families helps mothers. Currently, the program is unfunded. Many women in Australia can benefit from this program if it becomes more widely available.
The mission of the Healthy Mothers Healthy Families program is to support, empower and encourage mothers of a child with a disability to learn about, and create a healthy lifestyle that fosters their own health and well-being, alongside a healthy, happy family life. The workshops and website provide mothers with information, research findings and the shared wisdom of other mothers, to better support mothers to meet their important daily responsibilities caring for their child with a disability and family, whilst also caring for themselves. Healthy Mothers Healthy Families advocates for appropriate, evidence informed support that strengthens and empowers parents, carers and families.
Natalie Elder attended a workshop and shared her story in January 2017, see http://www.theage.com.au/national/health/no-respite-for-mothers-caring-for-children-with-a-disability-20170105-gtmfiu.html
The Healthy Mothers Healthy Families team aim to make the day workshop freely available to mothers caring for a child or young person with a disability nationwide. We need help to reach our aim.
Any donation that you make will go directly to funding delivery of day workshops by the presenters in areas of Australia. The workshops are run on Saturday or Sunday. Each workshops caters to 35 or so mothers in a local community. No mother will pay to attend if the organisers can successfully gain funding to provide this serviceie to the community of families who are raisng a child with a disability.
If you know of a mother in your family or local community who cares and supports a child or person with a disability, please consider offering your financial support to this program. We thank you. Mothers who attend this program in the future thank you. This program is worthwhile--please read some qualitative results from the prgram evaluation (all names have been changed to protect the privacy of mothers). See http://www.healthymothers-healthyfamilies.com/node/2069
Organizer
Helen Bourke-Taylor
Organizer
Brandon Park VIC
