Parent & Family Services

Overview of Parent & Family Support

Intercommunity recognizes the importance of families and parents in child development and the development of communities and society. Families often face challenges including difficulty raising children, unemployment, balance work, maintain self-care, unhealthy relationships, domestic violence, divorce, separation, and debilitating poverty without much needed support systems. Parents and guardians may struggle with raising children, teenagers, or youth with behavior problems. Managing these challenges and supporting overall family well-being can be difficult, frustrating, and worrisome for parents, guardians, and the entire family. Intercommunity provides services that help families overcome challenges and poverty as well as help parents enhance their parenting skills and parent-child relationships.

Parent Support Network

Parenting has major influence on the behaviour, emotional, physical, and social development of a child. Many parents and guardians often face challenges in raising their children in the face of unemployment, balancing work and parenting, unhealthy relationships, domestic violence, divorce, separation, debilitating poverty, and lack of support systems. Parents and guardians also struggle with raising children, teenagers, or youth with behavior problems. Managing these challenges and supporting overall family well-being can be difficult, frustrating, and worrisome for parents, guardians, and the entire family.

The Parent Support Network aims to encourages, support, and educate parents and guardians through parent support group sessions, counselling, and social support to build effective parenting skills, support system, healthy community connections, and improve well-being. We also support parents and guardians who are facing challenges in managing behavior problems of their children and youth.

 

How to access parent and family services

Please call us:

  • Freetown: 074 713 939
  • Bo: 076 810 869
  • Kono: 075 606 802