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Principles and Values

The age birth to five is considered crucial to the child’s capacity to develop and learn, physically, emotionally, intellectually and socially. Supportive intervention best begins as soon as the child is born, if not before, and continues throughout those early years.

Parents, (or those who parent), are the prime educators, and the most important influence on the child’s development. The Lifestart Programme concentrates on enabling parents to develop their role to the fullest.

The home is the primary environment for education and development.  The Lifestart Programme is centred in the home as being the most natural and most immediate focus for good nurture.

Lifestart is a promotional programme and is directed to primary prevention, that is, it assumes a supportive role so that appropriate development can occur, and the cycle of disadvantage is addressed.

The Lifestart Programme is comprehensive and community based and contributes to the development of all sectors of the community.

Lifestart is respectful of the culture and language of the community which are considered crucial and influential factors in the development of family and community discourse about child rearing.

The Lifestart programme is a curriculum. It consists of age appropriate information on all aspects of child development, a deliberative process of family visitation and cluster meetings, and procedures whereby parents are encouraged and enabled to evaluate their attitudes and practices.

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PRINCIPLES AND VALUES