Funded by The Tiny Lives Trust.
This project aimed to provide health visitors and their teams with the knowledge, skills and confidence to support families of preterm or sick babies who required care in a neonatal unit. By combining research evidence with insights gained from our engagement work with families, practitioners and subject matter experts, we developed resources and training that enhance understanding of families' needs and help practitioners provide compassionate, tailored and family-centred support as families transition from hospital to home, and through the earliest years.
A Neonatal Families Ambassador training programme was developed with resources to support practice, including:
- A range of resources detailing the different experiences of families who have had a baby on the neonatal unit
- E-learning
- Cascade training materials
- A-Z of useful organisations
📖 Neonatal Families Ambassadors - End of Project Report
Find out more about the training programme here.