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Our Integrated Services for Children and Young People (ISCYP) teams provide a wide range of support services and programmes in Education/Learner Support, Youth Development and Inclusion, Family Support and Wellbeing (focus mental health) NB : Also Alternative Education provision support via the 4 AEP Centres across West Belfast (and Belfast wide).
We have a wide range of referral agencies cross sectoral and cross theme i.e. education, health, social care, youth justice, community, voluntary and statutory including self and/ or parents
ISCYP is currently operating across West Belfast (also Shankill area). We have a number of bases from which we operate across west Belfasts 4 Neighbourhood Partnership areas
Free and confidential support for victims and witnesses of crime throughout NI. We offer emotional support and practical advice to help people recover from the impact of crime. We also support prosecution witnesses at court, and have a number of specialist advocacy services for young victims, victims of serious sexual crime, and hate crime. In addition, we have a free advice service to assist victims of violent crime to claim criminal injuries compensation.
Support is available whether you have reported the crime to police or not, and regardless of how long ago the crime occurred.
Contact us at our Belfast or Foyle Hubs or via email
info@victimsupportni.org.uk
Free and confidential support for victims and witnesses of crime throughout NI. We offer emotional support and practical advice to help people recover from the impact of crime. We also support prosecution witnesses at court, and have a number of specialist advocacy services for young victims, victims of serious sexual crime, and hate crime. In addition, we have a free advice service to assist victims of violent crime to claim criminal injuries compensation.
Support is available whether you have reported the crime to police or not, and regardless of how long ago the crime occurred.
Contact us at our Belfast or Foyle Hubs or via email
info@victimsupportni.org.uk
***Please note these meeting are via zoom – contact for details **
Meeting every Friday at 20.00
Someone else’s drinking can affect your life – be it a relative or friend, male or female.
Someone else’s uncontrolled, and uncontrollable, drinking can:
turn love to hate
bring you to the depths of despair affect you financially
lead to violent outbursts
make you doubt your own sanity
make you think that you are the problem.
Whatever your relationship to the drinker, whatever your story, Al-Anon can help.
Al-Anon Family Groups hold regular meetings where members share their own experience of living with alcoholism. Al-Anon does not offer advice or counselling, but members give each other understanding, strength and hope.
Helpline :- 028 9068 2368 for details.
Al-Anon Family Groups Meetings
Unless otherwise stated, Al-Anon meetings are held every week. Most meetings last for one and a half hours – variations are shown in the group’s notes. You are welcome to attend if you have been – or still are – affected by someone elses drinking.
Contacts are available for each meeting, if you wish to speak to someone prior to attending a meeting, please call
028 9068 2368 for details.
All meetings are by tradition, ‘closed’, that is, attended only by family and friends whose lives have been affected by the alcoholic’s behaviour. ‘Open’ meetings are offered by some groups who welcome professionals and others interested in learning how meetings can provide help and support to their clients. We ask visitors to respect the traditions of confidentiality and anonymity
Loughgiel Community Association’s core focus is about improving the lives of the local community by improving services provision, addressing health issues and unemployment issues. This ethos is applied to all activities/services undertaken by the association.
Vision, Mission and Values
The following statement represent the vision of Loughgiel Community Association
To meet the need of the community it represents in flexible and proactive manner.
Continuously innovating and developing new projects in line with identified community needs.
To support the most vulnerable / most in need in the area.
To provide and facilitate the provision of high quality services and projects.
To have a high level of customer satisfaction levels and staff satisfaction levels.
To continue to offer employment in the area both directly and indirectly.
Creating a sustainable Centre and Association.
To increase the Attractiveness of the area to funders, investors and tourists.
We provide temporary accommodation, security and support to single people who are homeless both male and female from the age of 18 years onwards.
The Looked after Children’s Service is responsible for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children who can no longer be looked after by their parents, be that in; Kinship Care, Foster Care, Concurrent Care, Adoptive Placements or Residential Care.
The focus of the Looked after Children’s Service is upon achieving permanency for children in a timely way.
The service is responsible for visiting children in placements as per statutory requirements to ensure that the standard of care that they receive is of the highest quality.
Social Workers and Family Support Workers work with children and their families to ensure that their voices are heard in the care planning process and ensure that the time that looked after children spend with their families is of the highest quality.
The participation of children and families in care planning is of the highest importance; therefore their views are heard in Care Planning Meetings,
Statutory Reviews and through the Care Planning Process. Statutory Reviews happen regularly, the frequency will depend on individual cases but generally these happen every six months, these reviews consider the progress that children and families have made, this can mean that a decision is made for a child to return to their family. The Looked after Children’s Team support families in these circumstances to ensure that such a transition is successful.
**Find individual areas specified on this website (with telephone numbers for each area)
Meeting every Thursday at 8.30 p.m. (meeting is held as normal on bank holidays)
Someone else’s drinking can affect your life – be it a relative or friend, male or female.
Someone else’s uncontrolled, and uncontrollable, drinking can:
turn love to hate
bring you to the depths of despair
affect you financially
lead to violent outbursts
make you doubt your own sanity
make you think that you are the problem.
Whatever your relationship to the drinker, whatever your story, Al-Anon can help.
Al-Anon Family Groups hold regular meetings where members share their own experience of living with alcoholism. Al-Anon does not offer advice or counselling, but members give each other understanding, strength and hope.
Helpline :- 028 9068 2368 for details.
Al-Anon Family Groups Meetings
Unless otherwise stated, Al-Anon meetings are held every week. Most meetings last for one and a half hours. You are welcome to attend if you have been – or still are – affected by someone elses drinking.
Contacts are available for each meeting, if you wish to speak to someone prior to attending a meeting, please call
028 9068 2368 for details.
All meetings are by tradition, ‘closed’, that is, attended only by family and friends whose lives have been affected by the alcoholic’s behaviour. ‘Open’ meetings are offered by some groups who welcome professionals and others interested in learning how meetings can provide help and support to their clients. We ask visitors to respect the traditions of confidentiality and anonymity
Helping Hands charity aims to include parents, siblings, carers and families in everything we do.
Helping Hands is a parent led charity that is managed by a team of parent volunteers.
Since its formation in 2008 we have grown greatly to ensure that families are supported when they receive diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As parents of children of young people with ASD we have a greater understanding of the challenges and the journey that families face on a daily basis.
Our volunteers support families with children & youth activities each week. We run weekly sessions for different age groups from primary 1 right up to adult
During Covid 19 our contact number for ALL offices is: 07923129559
email: info@start360.org
Start 360 (previously known as Opportunity Youth) offer unstructured family support to parents and families of young people on their programmes. This can range from information, guidance, signposting as well as emotional support. As well as community support, The Chill Project works with young people 8-21 years who are directly or indirectly affected through drugs and or alcohol. Counselling and mentoring as well as group work is available.
CHILL services provide counselling, mentoring, group work and family support for 8-18year old who are directly or indirectly affected by alcohol and or drug misuse. Through the family support we offer 1:1 support for parents who may be concerned for their children, information on services and supports available within the area and deliver the TATI programme to support talking to their children about tough issues. The counselling and mentoring service provide one to one sessions and group work across the Southern Health and Social Care Trust area. There are also a number of OCN courses available through the group work sessions.
Start 360 also provide Community Support in Dungannon, Clogher Valley, Armagh, Portadown, Lurgan and Craigavon. This service provides supports across the life span. They run accredited training programmes, non accredited group work, one to one sessions sign posting and supporting to other services. Drop in services throughout the community.


