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Family breakdown in the UK is now unacceptably serious.
We look to support people to prevent relationships from
failing and to support couples and children before problems
occur.
The Mid Devon Community Family Trust has been set up in line with
similar initiatives in Devon, Somerset and elsewhere to help tackle
this problem.
Mid-Devon Community Family Trust is affiliated to the National
Association of Community Family Trusts operating independently
in the areas of Cullompton, Tiverton and the surrounding villages.
It aims to support couples both in marriage preparation and throughout
their marriage. In doing this it hopes to give people the skills
necessary to prevent relationships reaching crisis point. It recognises
the needs of the whole family and will support relationships between
members of the family.
The trust aims to work in partnership with other bodies serving
families such as GP's, Health Visitors, and Counsellors, Schools,
Church leaders and local politicians. The trust is a local initiative,
which aims to be locally owned and supported. We aim to:
- prepare couples for marriage
- support couples throughout marriage
- help develop parenting skills.
Our work is to be preventative rather than remedial for families
in crisis. It is developed with the aim of strengthening all families.
We aim to be a community based project and have long term aims to
increase the skills we all need to make our communities emotionally
and relationally literate.
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