United Kingdom
With programmes focusing on supporting families and influencing poilcy, ATD Fourth World UK works in partnership with families experiencing long-term poverty to develop their potential and enable them to participate fully in the life of their communities and society.
Family Support
Our holistic Family Support Programme supports the most vulnerable and excluded families to access the services they are entitled to. Acting as a bridge between families and professionals, we give both parties the time, space and resources to build positive, long-lasting relationships.
Our Family Learning weekends thus seek to create the right conditions for parents, children and professionals to work together and learn from one another on topics tailored to meet the families’ own request to learn the basic parenting skills necessary to keep their family together and offer a better future to their children.
And, through strengthening families’ possibilities to meet others in similar situations, we encourage them to engage in mutual ‘peer support’ to counter the feelings of loneliness and isolation that frequently define social exclusion.
Policy, Participation and Training
Providing a platform for the voices of people who face hardship every day to influence the national debate on poverty is at the heart of our work. We believe that it is essential to include in any discussion on poverty the vital perspective of those who experience it on a daily basis.
Our participatory policy programmes empower people with experience of poverty to express their views and offer solutions to the problems affecting their lives while offering policy makers an invaluable insight into fighting poverty from the bottom up.
Challenging Times
The impact of the recession and the cuts on families in poverty stirs much debate but the reality is quite simple: those with nothing still have (…)
Louise’s Story
A diary of family support
ATD Fourth World’s Family Support Programme works alongside people facing challenges in areas such as housing, unemployment, health, benefits and lack of basic skills. For the past eighteen months, Martin Kalisa has been supporting Louise (…)Building a Stronger Community
