An Inclusive Behaviour Change Model for the Life-course
Single Parents Initiative counselling services is a family-inclusive behaviour change communication approach targeting families of single parents, especially in the most vulnerable and marginalized areas in Kenya.
The counselling services we provide, involves a wide range of life-saving health practices through appropriately timed messages delivered using interactive story-telling. It applies a dialogue counselling methodology based on the assessment of current needs and practices and negotiation of progressive improvements.
Importantly, we seek to engage both single parents and decision-makers, embracing a family-inclusive and gender-transformative model of child health and development, understanding their rights and responsibilities in which the positive contribution to a child life is emphasized. Our Counselling Services are delivered by officially recognized community health workers (CHWs).
Single Parents Initiative counselling services targets single parent families, to promote health behaviours, nutrition as well as how to become self-reliant and useful in society. The dialogue-based counselling methodology, and positive and negative stories is based on Home Based Life Saving Skills as well as developing entrepreneurship skills.
