The service consists of a series of home visits by a child health nurse over a two year period. The focus of the visits is to establish a therapeutic alliance with the infant's primary care giver, encouraging parental empowerment, anticipatory guidance and child health care and modelling and promotion of parent-infant attachment by positive reinforcement of successes. This project, initiated by Job Watch, provides employees who experience violence at work with a mechanism for reporting and redress. It also assists potential victims and deters potential perpetrators by raising awareness through its community education campaigns, media coverage, pamphlets and newsletters, information seminars and, in particular, a workplace violence phone-in. Job Watch has successfully pursued a number of unfair dismissal cases relating to apprentices and young workers involving assaults, verbal harassment and sexual assaults.
Participants learn to recognise unsafe or abusive situations and to problem-solve solutions.
Assertion and relaxation skills are taught so that the person can deal independently with unsafe or potentially violent situations. The project aims to develop and implement community crime prevention strategies. This project is essentially a home visitation programme, where trained volunteers visit families through times of stress, especially when mothers first come home with new babies, so as to reduce family stress and child abuse and promote healthy child development, improve family functioning and enriching the developmental climate for children and preventing child maltreatment. An integral part of the project is the involvement and support of volunteers from the local community. It provides organisational codes of conduct offering preventative and remedial strategies addressing bullying at its roots, through procedures for identification, reporting, costing, mediating and reskilling.