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Home-Start

Home-Start supports trained volunteers to visit at home families with young children under the age of five. Maternal depression and a lack of local social supports are among triggers for the program. The objective is to improve parental and child well-being. An evaluation funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that reduction of depression, parental stress, higher self-esteem and more social support were as attributable to time and parenting experience as the intervention.