Highland Family Nurse Partnership celebrates 10th anniversary.
Families and their children who have received the services and care of the Highland Family Nurse Partnership have been invited to a celebration event at the Botanic Gardens in Inverness.
Councillor David Fraser, Chair of the Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee said: “Congratulations to the many families and Council staff who have worked together to support and improve the wellbeing and resilience of many young lives.
“The Family Nurse Partnership compliments the Council’s Programme priority of ‘A Fair and Caring Highland’ and ‘Working together to improve quality of life and opportunities for Highland people’. It also supports the Programme’s ‘Place’ commitment to ‘Develop a whole family support approach to ensure families stay together and thrive in their local communities’.”
Cllr Fraser added: “It is commendable that since 2013 the Family Nurse Partnership team has supported 350 young first time parents and in its 10th anniversary year we celebrate this achievement and the successes of the many young families they have helped.”
The Family Nurse Partnership is a Highland Council service, delivered on behalf of the Scottish Government and sponsored by NHS Highland. The Partnership is an intensive, preventative, one-to-one home visiting programme with the purpose of achieving three core outcomes aimed at improving:
- pregnancy and birth through improved prenatal health behaviours,
- child health and development, through positive, responsive caregiving; and
- family economic stability through developing family visions and realising future plans.
Guests invited to the celebration event will enjoy refreshments in the Botanics glasshouse, activities in the gardens, tours of the glasshouses and the outdoor classroom.
For further information on the Family Nurse Partnership email: FNP@highland.gov.uk or phone 01463 644470