by Svetlana | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog
The Seven Passes Initiative – a non-profit organisation working to prevent violence and to support and improve youth education and opportunities in Touwsranten in the Western Cape – runs an ECD-focused positive parenting programme, which helps increase...
by Svetlana | Jul 29, 2016 | Publications, Research and Policy Briefs
Interventions are needed to reduce poor perinatal health. We trained community health workers as home visitors to address maternal/infant risks. In a cluster randomised controlled trial in Cape Town townships, neighbourhoods were randomised within matched pairs to 1)...
by Svetlana | Jul 29, 2016 | Publications, Research and Policy Briefs
The Philani Mentor Mothers Project aims to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable pregnant mothers and infants from low-income households, through a strategy of home visits by specially trained para-professional community health workers or “mentor mothers”....
by Svetlana | Dec 3, 2015 | Ilifa Insights
Nurturance, security, stimulation and love delivered through the parent-child relationship is where early childhood development begins. The social structures around the parent-child relationship, however, are of profound importance because the support, or in adverse...