Lift a Parent.
Raise a Child.
Join us in giving children across Worcestershire and Herefordshire the chance they deserve. Together, we can strengthen families, and strengthen our communities.
Our Mission
Nurture Families empowers families with children, before birth and throughout their early years, by supporting parent-child relationships and advancing quality early education and care to help improve life outcomes for children.
Investments in Early Childhood have lifelong impact
Return on Investment
Our Approach
Our approach to early education and care is rooted in place-based programme development, research and policy so that children, families and early childhood practitioners can flourish.
Early Childhood Programmes
We work on the ground with families in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, providing pregnancy support programmes, home visiting, parent-infant therapy, and quality early learning.
Professional Development
Early Childhood Practitioners work closely with children and families. Their influence and input is far reaching and has high impact. Nurture Families has developed training programmes that help practitioners to build practices that transform education and care for all children and families.
Partnership Working
We are passionate about fostering partnerships to create a strong and sustainable Early Childhood ecosystem for children and families. We know that we have greater impact when we come together. By sharing and learning from one another, we can only do better. Our collaborative approach aims to accelarate learning and impact.
Nurture Families Roadmap
Nurture Outdoor Kindergarten Launched
A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach
Parent-Child Groups Launched
First Nature Nurtures Conference
Responsive Pregnancy Support
Growing Change Project Research
Connecting Communities
A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach
First Nature Nurtures Conference
Growing Change Project Research
Our Impact
We focus solely on the first years of a child’s life, starting before birth, to have the most significant impact on children and families.
Early Childhood Programmes
Professional Development
Early Childhood Ecosystem
“Young children experience their world as an environment of relationships, and these relationships affect virtually all aspects of their development.”
- National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (USA)
Parent-Infant Relationship Team
Research overwhelmingly finds what happens in a child’s earliest years is the most important for healthy development and long-term well-being. A unique window of opportunity lies is the earliest years - change the first years of child's life and you change everything.
And change starts with us, the adults. A large body of research shows that a child's long-term emotional and social wellbeing is inextricably linked to the wellbeing and mental health of their parents. By supporting parents, we can better support children. And when those children become adults, their children do better.
Read about our 10-year strategy that includes shifting resource to early intervention with a new community-based parent-infant relationship team.
Support Our Work
Together, we can bring about ambitious change to secure better and brighter life outcomes for all children.
Resources from our parent-infant relationship team that give parents the tools they need to help their children thrive in those critical early years.