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Mid-Ulster and South Tyrone (MUST) Hostel offers accommodation, support and help, tailored to the specific needs of single people who are homeless and aged 18-65.
At Extern’s MUST Hostel, our primary objective is to provide a contemporary and adaptable supported housing service that prioritises the holistic well-being of each individual.
Our approach revolves around flexibility, recognising and addressing the unique and varied needs of every resident. With a capacity of 20 beds, we extend a warm welcome to both men and women seeking refuge and support.
Our distinction as a Probation Approved Hostel signifies a critical partnership with PBNI, enabling us to offer supervised accommodation for individuals under specific supervision, including those subject to licenses or other restrictions.
This collaboration allows us to provide a secure and supportive environment, fostering positive progress and aiding in the process of reintegrating individuals into the community.
Beyond the provision of housing, our focus is on the comprehensive support and guidance we offer. Our dedicated team works tirelessly to create a safe space where residents can access not only accommodation but also a range of tailored services and programs designed to meet their diverse needs.
Through individualised care plans and a holistic approach, we aim to empower residents, helping them navigate challenges and progress towards their goals.
How do I get support?
Tel: +44 (0)28 8676 2065
Email: mustadmin@extern.org
The Marie Curie Patient and Family Support Team offer emotional, spiritual, psychological and practical support to patients, families and carers impacted by a life-limiting illness.
This service is available to families throughout Northern Ireland.
The team is comprised of social workers, counsellors and a chaplain.
Types of support provided:
Providing a safe space to talk about what’s important to you
Legacy work – creating memories
Assistance with applying for benefits
Arranging practical assistance at home or helping to find alternative accommodation
Giving advice and support with planning a funeral
Giving advice and support regarding wills and legal matters
Helping children to talk about death and dying
Spiritual support
Counselling support
Bereavement support
If you or a loved one is living with a terminal illness and would like a referral, please contact your
District Nurse
,
GP
or
Hospital Consultant
Information for healthcare professionals
Health Visitors are registered Nurses with an additional qualification in child health/development and family health.
Health visiting is a proactive, universal service that provides a platform from which to reach out to individuals and vulnerable groups, considering their different dynamics and needs, and reducing inequalities in health.
Your Health Visiting team can offer a family centred service from pregnancy until your child goes to school. We can offer advice and support on matters such as:
Play, stimulation and child development
Nutrition
Breastfeeding
Weaning
Healthy eating 1-5 years
Sleeping
Immunisations
Keeping your child safe
Toileting
When will I see my Health Visitor?
Our aim is to provide you with the help you need at the right time. Contacts will vary depending on your family’s needs. You will be visited at home and/or places (e.g. health centres) most suited to your needs. The usual contacts offered by the Health Visitor are:
An antenatal visit after 28 weeks
A new birth visit between 10 and 14 days
6 to 8 weeks
14 to 16 weeks
6 to 9 months (Health Visitor or Child Health Assistant)
After your child’s first and second birthday’s 3+ year review in nursery school
How can I contact the Health Visiting Team?
Every GP practice has a named Health Visitor.
Your Health Visitor will provide you with their contact details which they will write in your Parent Child Held Record (Red book).
If this information is not available, please contact your GP who will provide you with up to date contact information.
The Mid Ulster Child Contact Centre provides contact for mums, dads, parents and grandparents to have good positive contact in a safe, secure and child friendly environment with trained volunteers who are impartial and welcoming to all families.
MUCCC is a stepping stone to allow families time to build trust and children to have contact with the non-resident parent while other issues are being sorted out.
Opening Hours
Saturdays 10.00am – 12 noon Wednesday 64.00pm -7.30pm.
Referral by: Self, Social Worker, Solicitor & Courts.
See
website
for more information
Health Visitors are registered Nurses with an additional qualification in child health/development and family health.
Health visiting is a proactive, universal service that provides a platform from which to reach out to individuals and vulnerable groups, considering their different dynamics and needs, and reducing inequalities in health.
Your Health Visiting team can offer a family centred service from pregnancy until your child goes to school. We can offer advice and support on matters such as:
Play, stimulation and child development
Nutrition
Breastfeeding
Weaning
Healthy eating 1-5 years
Sleeping
Immunisations
Keeping your child safe
Toileting
When will I see my Health Visitor?
Our aim is to provide you with the help you need at the right time. Contacts will vary depending on your family’s needs. You will be visited at home and/or places (e.g. health centres) most suited to your needs. The usual contacts offered by the Health Visitor are:
An antenatal visit after 28 weeks
A new birth visit between 10 and 14 days
6 to 8 weeks
14 to 16 weeks
6 to 9 months (Health Visitor or Child Health Assistant)
After your child’s first and second birthday’s 3+ year review in nursery school
How can I contact the Health Visiting Team?
Every GP practice has a named Health Visitor.
Your Health Visitor will provide you with their contact details which they will write in your Parent Child Held Record (Red book).
If this information is not available, please contact your GP who will provide you with up to date contact information.
Health Visitors are registered Nurses with an additional qualification in child health/development and family health.
Health visiting is a proactive, universal service that provides a platform from which to reach out to individuals and vulnerable groups, considering their different dynamics and needs, and reducing inequalities in health.
Your Health Visiting team can offer a family centred service from pregnancy until your child goes to school. We can offer advice and support on matters such as:
Play, stimulation and child development
Nutrition
Breastfeeding
Weaning
Healthy eating 1-5 years
Sleeping
Immunisations
Keeping your child safe
Toileting
When will I see my Health Visitor?
Our aim is to provide you with the help you need at the right time. Contacts will vary depending on your family’s needs. You will be visited at home and/or places (e.g. health centres) most suited to your needs. The usual contacts offered by the Health Visitor are:
An antenatal visit after 28 weeks
A new birth visit between 10 and 14 days
6 to 8 weeks
14 to 16 weeks
6 to 9 months (Health Visitor or Child Health Assistant)
After your child’s first and second birthday’s
3+ year review in nursery school
How can I contact the Health Visiting Team?
Every GP practice has a named Health Visitor.
Your Health Visitor will provide you with their contact details which they will write in your Parent Child Held Record (Red book).
If this information is not available, please contact your GP who will provide you with up to date contact information.
Riverfront Medical Practice : 028 7131 4910
Cityview Medical : 028 7131 4930 4950
Glendermott Medical : 028 7131
VOYPIC is a charity working across Northern Ireland promoting the rights and improving their lives of children and young people cared away from home. They may be living at home in care; with foster or kinship carers; in children’s homes; in secure settings; or in supported accommodation. They may be preparing to leave care or be care leavers. Our core services are advocacy, participation and policy.
Digital referal link :
Refer to VOYPIC
We provide local specialist help, information and care across Northern Ireland for autistic children and adults, and their families.
We offer health and social services including support in your home, short breaks and respite, social groups, relationship and health education, and parent groups.
Find more information on website :
National Autistic Society – Northern Ireland
and Facebook :
Link to Facebook
Find Local Branches :-
Search For Local Branches
Northern Ireland Advice Line
:-
The advice line provides impartial, confidential information along with advice and support for autistic people, their families and carers in Northern Ireland.
How we can help
: We can help with a range of questions related to autistic children and adults including benefits advice.
How does it work?
Our advice line is run by our family support workers. When you call the advice line leave a message, with your contact details, or email and one of our family support workers will reply to you.
How to contact the advice line
The advice line will be open Monday – Friday, 9am -5pm
Email: Joanne.Keown@nas.org.uk Or
Clair.dundas@nas.org.uk
Call: 07917 266 487 Or 07917 235 390
Mourne Sure Start
aims to deliver the best start in life for every child by bringing together early education, health and family support.
Mourne Sure Start has been operational in the Kilkeel area since March 2011 providing free services to mums-to-be and children aged 0 to 4 years and their families who live in the designated areas of Kilkeel Central 2 and Kilkeel South 2.
Sure Start works in partnership with parents to promote the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children so that they can flourish at home and when they get to school.
Our services can be offered in your own home or in group based settings and are free and confidential. We offer an extensive range of programmes.
Click
here
for our full list of programmes.
Newstart is a community based organisation in West Belfast which has served the community for over 20 years. As an Alternative Education Centre it provides a cross-community service for young people who are excluded or disengaged from the mainstream education system. It has developed an innovative approach to the education of young people and a wraparound support service for them and their families. The multidisciplinary team at Newstart work towards enabling young people to re-engage with education, to become independent and to re-integrate into the communities in which they live. It deals with issues such as drug and alcohol misuse, mental health difficulties, behavioural challenges, violence in the home.
We are based in Dunlewey Street off the Falls Road. Our young people come mainly from West and North Belfast, but we also have a number of referrals from outside the area.
New start was initially set up in 1989 as a community initiative, working with those young people most at risk and in danger of marginalization within our society. We also work with their families and the wider community. The organization has grown and developed over the past sixteen years. The Education Project was established in 1998 as a direct result of assessing the needs of the young people and the Communities we serve.
An opportunity to continue learning
Five day per week provision – for young people with a structured time-table which meets the needs of our young people .
A range of accredited subjects including GCSE , Essential Skills, OCN, Occupational Studies.
Vocational Training and Work Experience.
Young Enterprise
Adventure Learning
Business Enterprise
Parental/ family support – including informal and formal courses/sessions on issues of relevance.
Outreach Programmes and ‘In-House’ programmes as required specifically tailor made to suit the group.
Evening classes
Social & Life Skills Programmes – designed to suit individual or group needs of those referred to the Centretby statutory, voluntary or community organisations.
Since its inception Newstart has worked with hundreds of Young People and their families. Within the Alternative Education Programme, in order to provide an individualised programme which meets the needs of all our young people we try to work within a ‘ceiling’ of 20 young people annually. However through our Outreach Programmes during the course of any one year we have in excess of 110 – 130 young people, parents and others availing of our service provision .
Our referrals come from many of the schools within West, North and South Belfast, Education Welfare Services, Social Services (including young people in care), Youth Justice Agency, Probation Board NI, the local Community and Parents/Guardians. We work very closely with parents and those support agencies involved in the lives of our young people.