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Place Description: Home-Start provides a unique service for families – recruiting and training volunteers to support parents with young children at home. Home-Start volunteers visit families at home each week, supporting parents in situations as diverse as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability or who are just finding parenting a struggle. They provide non-judgemental, practical and emotional support and help build the familiy’s confidence and ability to cope. At Home-Start we support any parent with young children who asks for our help and our supported families, like our volunteers, come from all walks of life. Parents’ Walking Group – Families meet with other Families, Volunteers and Staff once a week for social support, exercise and play opportunities for the children. Online Counselling – Parents with at least one child under 5, can be referred for four free online counselling session with an BACP Accredited Psychotherapist. Online Mellow Parenting Programme – Parents with at least one child under 5 can be referred to the Mellow Parenting Programme to discuss parenting and family issues with trained facilitators and other parents. 19 week free Baby programme for parents with babies (0<5months) in Craigavon Borough area outside of Sure-Start areas. Includes baby massage, baby's brain development, parenting programme, introduction to community supports & local activities, health professionals input, baby's brain development, play and sensory bags, sleep advice and support.

Place Description: Home-Start provides support to families at home helping parents to build better lives for their children. Volunteers who are parents themselves are recruited and trained to visit families who have difficulties and or problems related to child protection, mental health, disabilities, drug and alcohol misuse, isolation, multiple births, deprivation and domestic violence. Home-Start supports families across the four levels of need and believes that the earlier you intervene in a childs life the better their chances of growing up healthy and happy. Volunteers go into the family home to help parents and children feel less marginalised and families develop improved coping strategies. Home-Start support is flexible and tailor made as parents co-design their own support, identifying needs and are involved in assessing and reviewing their progress. The following services are available in the Newry and Mourne Area : Family Groups – Children have Toys, Fun and Activities. They do games music and rhymes. Parties and Outings are arranged. Healthy Refreshments are provided and children are encouraged to socialise. Parents can make new friends, have a break from normal routine, share skills and ideas, learn new parenting skills and avail of friendly, confidential support from staff if they have any concerns. Kilkeel Family Group – Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings 9.30 am to 11.30 am.  Annalong Family Group – Wednesday mornings 9.30 am to 11.30 am.   Rapid Response Service is tailored to meet the individual needs of every family. The Rapid Response worker will work closely with parents and offer friendly support to families. This short term, intensive, home based support promotes parenting skills and provides practical guidance to achieve positive change and development for families. The Rapid Response worker is available to support parents in their home if they feel this would help them to gain confidence in establishing new techniques and routine. The worker will carry out a planned piece of work with each family. This will invlove encouraging and supporting parents in a number of specific parenting tasks such as behaviour management, bedtime or mealtime routines, household management, budgeting, nutrition and bonding and attachment. Contact Home Start on 028 417 64120

Place Description: Home-Start provides support to families at home helping parents to build better lives for their children. Volunteers who are parents themselves are recruited and trained to visit families who have difficulties and or problems related to child protection, mental health, disabilities, drug and alcohol misuse, isolation, multiple births, deprivation and domestic violence. Home-Start supports families across the four levels of need and believes that the earlier you intervene in a childs life the better their chances of growing up healthy and happy. Volunteers go into the family home to help parents and children feel less marginalised and families develop improved coping strategies. Home-Start support is flexible and tailor made as parents co-design their own support, identifying needs and are involved in assessing and reviewing their progress. The following services are available in the Newry and Mourne Area : Family Groups – Children have Toys, Fun and Activities. They do games music and rhymes. Parties and Outings are arranged. Healthy Refreshments are provided and children are encouraged to socialise. Parents can make new friends, have a break from normal routine, share skills and ideas, learn new parenting skills and avail of friendly, confidential support from staff if they have any concerns. Newry Group – Monday-Thursday mornings 10am to 12pm Warrenpoint Family Group – Thursday mornings 10am to 12pm Rapid Response Service is tailored to meet the individual needs of every family. The Rapid Response worker will work closely with parents and offer friendly support to families. This short term, intensive, home based support promotes parenting skills and provides practical guidance to achieve positive change and development for families. The Rapid Response worker is available to support parents in their home if they feel this would help them to gain confidence in establishing new techniques and routine. The worker will carry out a planned piece of work with each family. This will invlove encouraging and supporting parents in a number of specific parenting tasks such as behaviour management, bedtime or mealtime routines, household management, budgeting, nutrition and bonding and attachment. Parenting Project Worker – works closely with parents and offers friendly support to families. Referrals mus meet the criteria that there is at least one child under 5 yrs in the home. The short term intensive home-based support promotes parenting skills and provides practical guidance to achieve positive change and development for families. Contact Home Start on 028 3026 6139

Place Description: Home-Start provides support to families at home helping parents to build better lives for their children. Volunteers who are parents themselves are recruited and trained to visit families who have difficulties and or problems related to child protection, mental health, disabilities, drug and alcohol misuse, isolation, multiple births, deprivation and domestic violence. Home-Start supports families across the four levels of need and believes that the earlier you intervene in a childs life the better their chances of growing up healthy and happy. Volunteers go into the family home to help parents and children feel less marginalised and families develop improved coping strategies. Home-Start support is flexible and tailor made as parents co-design their own support, identifying needs and are involved in assessing and reviewing their progress. Method of Access: GP, Health Visitor, Self, Social Worker, Family Support Hub. We also run accredited baby programmes, mainly (though not exclusively) for first time parents. In addition to these we have a music and movement programme for older children which runs several times from September through to June. To meet our referral criteria there must be a child under 5 in the family

Place Description: Jigsaw CCC is a well established community counselling centre based in North Belfast that provides a safe place for you to talk through your issues. Counselling will not provide any quick solutions but it can be effective for a range of psychological difficulties including depression, anxiety and phobias. We are here to listen and provide support. To find out more about what we do or to enquire about volunteering, feel free to contact us. We can offer a range of counselling and mentoring sessions to tackle issues such as: abuse domestic violence anger family breakdown addiction depression anxiety self-harm We work in a number of local schools in North Belfast to improve the emotional well-being of children, their families and the whole school community. We deal with a variety of issues including bereavement, trauma, bullying, family breakdown and anger issues.

Place Description: We provide support to all young witnesses and their carers/families before, during and after a criminal trial. Our aim is to reduce the risk of secondary abuse by the court system. To reduce the anxiety and stress experienced by young people having to give evidence in a criminal trial. For more information / make a referral : Supporting young witnesses giving evidence