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Meeting every Monday at 8.30 p.m Someone else’s drinking can affect your life – be it a relative or friend,
Place Description: Meeting every Monday at 8.30 p.m
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
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Addiction NI only sees clients aged over 18 years. We provide a support service for adults affected by someone else’s
Place Description: Addiction NI only sees clients aged over 18 years. We provide a support service for adults affected by someone else’s alcohol or drugs use. This involves information and counselling.
Addiction NI services are open to clients from all of Northern Ireland. There are three centres in Belfast.
Do you feel your drinking or drug use is causing problems in your life? Are you addicted to alcohol or drugs? Contact Addiction NI.
You don’t need to go to your doctor first. We have helped many people deal with just the sort of difficulties you are experiencing.
Addiction NI is a registered charity providing treatment and support for people who are dependent on alcohol or drugs. We provide tailor-made treatment programmes for people with drug or alcohol problems, delivered in community settings. We also give confidential support for people affected by someone else’s drinking or drug use.
Addiction NI is:
Professional: Qualified therapists providing counselling treatment and advice
Easy to access: You can make an appointment yourself, a referral from a doctor is not essential. We do not charge for treatment sessions but welcome donations
Community based: Our centres are in community settings and provide a relaxed environment
Confidential: Your privacy is important to us
Non-judgmental: Our counsellors focus on your treatment needs
Promoting inclusion: We work with people experiencing social exclusion
We are open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 1pm on Fridays. For help outside of these hours, please visit our website
We treat people from all over Northern Ireland.
Work and Me
Aims to raise awareness of the impact of alcohol by providing information and support to those in employment or seeking employment.
Offers: Education and awareness sessions for work placements & policy development for employers. Counselling support for those at risk of losing their employment, or those seeking new work
Provides: Wellness Recovery Training (WRAP) focused on pre-employment sector
Supports: Over sixteen year olds through contact on www.drinkworkandme.com
On line access to Alcohol Audit App
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Informing Choices NI is a sexual and reproductive health charity. We champion informed choices around sex, sexuality and reproductive health
Place Description: Informing Choices NI is a sexual and reproductive health charity. We champion informed choices around sex, sexuality and reproductive health and wellbeing through advocacy, counselling, education, information and training.
ADVOCACY – We campaign for free, safe, legal and local abortion services in Northern Ireland.
COUNSELLING – We offer non-directive pregnancy choices and post pregnancy counselling, information and support services.
EDUCATION – We deliver Relationship, Sexuality Education programmes for parents as well as individuals with a learning disability/difficulty.
INFORMATION – We provide a sexual health information service comprising of the provision of a sexual health helpline, free Contraception and STI leaflets and a biannual newsletter.
TRAINING – We can provide bespoke training on Relationships, Sexuality Education for professionals working with young people or individuals with a learning disability/difficulty.
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Day Care facility for Adults with learning disabilities ages 19 +. The Centre provides sport and recreation which includes keep
Place Description: Day Care facility for Adults with learning disabilities ages 19 +.
The Centre provides sport and recreation which includes keep fit, football, golf, netball, bowling, athletics, pool, darts, bingo, drama, quizzes, table tennis, walking, video and television entertainment, cinema and theatre visits.
Rehabilitation including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, nutrition and dietetics, community nursing, aromatherapy, reflexology, personal care need programmes and self help/development.
Occupational/employment, Day Opportunities will offer appropriate work placements both supported and independent. This may take place both within the Centre and in the local community.
Therapeutic and sensory stimulation, these include activities such as gardening, arts and crafts, pottery, cookery, woodwork, painting, computing, furniture restoration, conservation work, music, dancing, cross community projects and social events.
Referral is made by doctors, nurses and social workers following assessment of need for daycare provision.
Transport, if required, will be arranged.
Each client will have an individual key worker who will be responsible.
Contact Michael Bacon: michael.bacon@northerntrust.hscni.net
or Peter Stanley: peter.stanley@northerntrust.hscni.net
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Loughgiel Community Association’s core focus is about improving the lives of the local community by improving services provision, addressing health
Place Description: 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.
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The Looked after Children’s Service is responsible for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children who can no longer be
Place Description: 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.
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Helping Hands charity aims to include parents, siblings, carers and families in everything we do. Helping Hands is a parent
Place Description: 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
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Family & Child Care Social Workers are statutory Social Workers who work in partnership with families across the domains of
Place Description: Family & Child Care Social Workers are statutory Social Workers who work in partnership with families across the domains of family support, safeguarding and also with children Looked After.
The team offers a range of supports and interventions works very closely with community partners to co-ordinate plans that assist Children in Need, Children requiring Safeguarding, and Children Looked After to reach their full potential.
Hours of Business are 9am – 5pm.
Family & Child Care Team
Charene Scott, Principal Social Worker
Donna Service Social Work Manager
Selina McKinney Social Work Manager
Nuala McClements Social Work Manager
Referral via Gateway Team only
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The Looked after Children’s Service is responsible for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children who can no longer be
Place Description: 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.
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Meeting every Wednesday at 8.00 p.m Someone else’s drinking can affect your life – be it a relative or friend,
Place Description: Meeting every Wednesday at 8.00 p.m
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