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Place Description: 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.

Place Description: 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 Referral Link: Refer to VOYPIC

Place Description: 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 link for referral: Refer To VOYPIC

Place Description: 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.

Place Description: 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

Place Description: Our aim is to transform the future of people with learning disability, acquired brain injury or autistic spectrum condition. Adult Services include :- Supported Living Services Supported Living offers the people we support the opportunity to live where and how they choose – in a home of their own or with people they choose to live with. Location: Bangor, Belfast, Cookstown, Enniskillen, Lisburn, Lisnaskea, Magherafelt, Newtownards, Omagh and Portavogie. Peripatetic Housing Support Services Peripatetic Housing Support Services are for people who already have their own tenancy. These services generally offer a lower level of support, sometimes for a shorter term. Location: Cookstown, Enniskillen, Omagh and Southern Health & Social Care Trust (Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon, Dungannon and Newry) areas. A number of these services also provide other supports, for example, with people’s “care”. Residential Short Breaks Residential short breaks offer opportunities to spend time away from family and give families a break from caring. Our Short Break Service based in North Belfast offers people with a learning disability the opportunity to spend time away from their families, gaining greater independence while allowing their loved ones a break from their caring responsibilities. Our new purpose–built facility supports up to 5 people at any one time. Location: Belfast. Shared Lives Service The Shared Lives Service gives adults the opportunity to live with and be supported by another family or individual (a Shared Lives carer). It also enables people who live with their own family to have short breaks with another family or an individual. This gives their own families a break (respite) from full–time caring. This service depends on families or individuals volunteering to provide placements thereby becoming a Shared Lives carer. CHILDREN & FAMILIES SERVICES We provide emotional and practical support to families who have a child or adult with a learning disability using person centred, community development approaches. Family Support Services for children and families As the name suggests, staff and volunteers from these services support the whole family. They provide opportunities for children and young people to become more involved in the community and make it possible for parents, brothers and sisters to enjoy fuller lives. Location: Bangor, Lisburn and South East Fermanagh (Lisnaskea area). Better Futures Better Futures – family supports for older carers Better Futures, which we established with support from the Big Lottery Fund, is a project for older people who care for a family member with a learning disability. Research has shown that older carers often feel isolated and are fearful about the future care of their children. Better Futures staff and volunteers provide advice and practical supports as well as helping them plan ahead, so that we don’t have the appalling situation in which people hope their children die before them. If you’re 60+ and care for a person with a learning disability, speak to your Social Worker about our Better Futures Project. Location: Bangor and Lisburn areas. For more information, contact Anne Murphy, Project Co–ordinator on 028 9147 5720 or info@positive-futures.net. Better Together Better Together – bringing together young adults with a learning disability and other young adults to pursue shared interests This project is designed to bring together young adults with a learning disability and other young adults who volunteer to help them follow their interests. Each participant is matched with a mentor who supports the young person for one to two years. During this time, the person being supported will gain confidence and attain goals that might otherwise have proved impossible. We work in partnership with Belfast HSC Trust. Location: Belfast For more information, contact Gregg Nicholl, Project Co–ordinator on 028 9074 1271 or info@positive-futures.net. Positive Behaviour Support Positive behaviour support is an approach that helps reduce stress in the people we support and their carers It does so by establishing the causes of behaviour that challenges and addressing these. In Positive Futures, positive behaviour support is coordinated through a steering group made up of senior operational managers, Service Managers, our Behaviour Support Coordinator and our external consultant from Studio III, Andy McDonnell. Positive behaviour support within Positive Futures includes training for staff and support and guidance on managing behaviours that challenge. The Coordinator of this service is Darragh McCullagh Helping people live the life they want “The Life I Want” – empowering adults with a learning disability, acquired brain injury or autistic spectrum condition to have choice and independence to live the life they want now and in the future “The Life I Want” is a way to enable the people we support in our Supported Living Services to make decisions about how they spend their time, who they want to support them and how they are supported. As part of this, we work closely with the people we support, their family, friends and staff from other organisations, listening to everyone’s opinions so we can understand what is important to and for the person now and in the future. We call this event “Planning Live”. A variety of person–centred tools are used throughout “The Life I Want” process to help us learn and understand what a “perfect week” looks like for each person. By thinking about what each person would like to do with their support hours, we can begin to assess what is achievable, and how we can ensure the person receives the right amount of support to enable them to achieve the life they want. By empowering the people we support to make their own decisions and by challenging our own thinking about how we can fulfil these wishes, the people we support can achieve greater choice and independence to live life as they choose. Participation We put the people we support first – always This is the first of our Organisational Values and in each Corporate Plan our first Strategic Aim always relates to the people we support. In order to put people first as an Organisation, we need to ensure that the voice of the people we support is heard in decision making at all levels within Positive Futures. We do this through our Participation Strategy which is delivered by our Participation Worker and has resulted in the establishment of a range of participation groups, including the Advisory Board and groups within Services and Projects and the involvement of the people we support.

Place Description: 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

Place Description: 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

Place Description: 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