WHY CAN'T DAD COME HOME?

摘要

Health visitors Jo Lamb and Mel Griffiths on innovating practice to deliver the Healthy Child Wales Programme to fathers in prison. In 2016, PACT, which was based in a local prison, approached the professional lead for health visiting at the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board with a proposal to deliver a pilot public health initiative in South Wales. The aim of this key initiative was to build stronger family relationships through health promotion. PACT identified a need to support fathers with parenting and turned to health visitors to work in partnership. Baybutt et al (2014) suggests that HVs could be motivators in assisting diverse communities such as prisons to reduce health risks by promoting health within the prison itself.