Impact of Community-Based Programs on Child Development: A Report

This report provides an overview of community-based support programs and their positive impact on child development. These programs focus on providing resources, support, and skills to parents, enhancing their ability to foster their children's emotional, social, and cognitive growth. The report highlights the significance of these programs in building parental confidence and competence. It also discusses how such programs can positively influence parenting behaviors and promote positive outcomes for children. The report references studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of these programs in improving parenting skills, maternal well-being, and overall family outcomes. The key features of these programmes include providing flexible and responsive support, respecting the family's needs, and providing parents with information and resources. These programs are essential for the early years of children's lives.

The community based support programmes and practices are designed in such a way that it
promotes the resources flow and provide the supports to the parents who help in
strengthening the functioning and also enhancing the development and the growth of the
children in their early age of life. Such community based programmes aim in providing such
knowledge and skills which are helpful in conducting the rearing responsibilities of the
growing children and providing the children with the opportunities and experiences which
promotes the child development and learning.
The significance characteristic of such community based programmes includes providing the
families with the responsive and the flexible support; to treat the families with respect and
dignity; sharing the information with the parents so as to make the informed decisions; and to
provide the essential supports and resources to the parents for taking care of the children in
their early age of life which produces the optimal child and the parent outcomes (Mason,
2011).
The community based programmes and initiatives have the positive impact on both the
parenting behaviours and emotional and social development of the children in the early stages
of life. The significance feature of such programme is not what is offered, but the way how
the supports are to be provided (Mason, 2011).
The capacity-building practices in the community based programme form the base of the
interactions among the families and the staff for ensuring the parent's capacities enhancement
this in turn helps the parents with building confidence and competencies which is
necessitated for interactions and promoting the emotional and social development of the
children (Forde & Devaney, 2006).
The members of such community based programmes in the child care help the family
members in acquiring the skills for obtaining, resources, services, and supports, such

practices helps in the development of the young children which also includes the emotional
and the social development ( Forde & Devaney, 2006). The communities can conduct certain
range of the target, universal and health promoting services such as the feeding of the infants,
sleeping and also in providing the guidance to understand the health immunisation and
assessment in the early yearly of the children.
The given programmes aim to control the parenting behaviours which in a postitive way
impact the outcomes of the child. Substantiation for the efficacy of the programmes has been
increasing more than ten years, even though it remains mixed. The systematic reviews of
certain home visiting programs in the Canada, USA, and UK, established that there are
certain optimistic outcome in the surroundings, and also in the well being of the maternal and
parenting skill (Forde & Devaney, 2006).
There are certain parenting competence and confidence which actively provides the practices
which involves the practices which helps the parents in deciding what is important for them
and children care and how to acquire the knowledge and information which is necessary to be
acquired for the children growth in early years with having the great effect on the parents
sense of confidence and competence (Mason, 2011).

References
Forde, S., & Devaney, C. (2006). Postvention: A Community-based Family Support Initiative
and Model of Responding to Tragic Events, Including Suicide. Child Care In
Practice, 12(1), 53-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575270500526303
Mason, C. (2011). Social work the ‘art of relationship’: parents' perspectives on an intensive
family support project. Child & Family Social Work, 17(3), 368-377.
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