This week One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) in Falkirk celebrated their 80th birthday! What a milestone, marking eight decades of empowering single-parent families.
OPFS aims to enable single parent families to achieve their potential, to reach a decent standard of living and contribute to Scottish society. Those with the greatest expertise about what makes a real difference are single parents with lived experience. We support all single parent families whether headed by mothers or fathers, young parents or kinship carers. Our direct services tailored to the needs of single parent families cover:
- Tailored advice and information.
- Welfare rights and money advice
- Family support
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Support into training, education and employment programmes
- Access to flexible childcare services (now run by our sister organisation FCSS)
- Training for practitioners
- Services to reduce the digital exclusion facing single parents.
OPFS want to change single parent families’ experiences of isolation, loneliness, poverty, inequality, stigma and poor health, for the long-term. Our approach supports single parents to build their self-esteem, confidence and skills, to take up employment, training and education opportunities and to participate in OPFS policy and campaigning activities.
For more information on the support provided and their upcoming events, please visit the One Parent Families Scotland website.
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