Since 2015 TSA has been implementing a home visiting service – Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), for vulnerable mothers (young pregnant women and their children up to the age of 2 years). Nurses and midwives make regular home visits to mothers in Sofia and Plovdiv, providing health consultations and support for building their parenting skills. However, due to the persisting complicated COVID-19 stituation, NFP teams are forced to adapt to Telehealth (working from home through alternative contacts) which proves to be a problem for the poorest families in the service. They do not have a mobile device or funds to cover their phone/internet bills.
After a successful Telehealth project for NFP families in Sofia, funded by the Sofia Municipality in 2020-2021, TSA applied for another identical project to support the NFP families in Plovdiv as well. The initiative was approved by the donor organization – Give Eur-Hope. Through this project TSA will purchase up to 60 tablets with mobile internet for 12 months - for those "unreachable" families in the pandemic living in Plovdiv. Thus, we will secure access of mothers and children at risk to medical support and will pilot the innovative structured telehealth approach in our service delivery at another setting.