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Home-Start Glasgow North & North Lanarkshire
- Membership number 6099
- Charity registered in Scotland SC032736
HSGN has 20 years’ experience supporting families, with at least one child 5 and under, living in North Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, struggling to cope with factors such as poor mental health, isolation, physical health issues, domestic abuse, addictions, poverty, bereavement, single parenting or multiple birth. Our three priority equity areas are BAME, dads and infants. Our main aims are:• To promote health and wellbeing. HSGN&NL is committed to ensuring the welfare of children is uncompromised and families affected by mental health issues are supported throughout the antenatal and perinatal phase and beyond.• Community Engagement – including training and supporting volunteers, create connections, build local support for HSGN&NL• Deliver support that is right for families – through evaluation and consultation directly with families and other services, we evolve to continue to meet local needs and compliment other support available.• Inform local and national policy from our experiences and ensure family and children’s views are shared with local and national policy makers.HSGN&NL receive referrals from a variety of sources – Health Visitors, Social Work, Perinatal services, Education, Clinical Psychologists and other organisations. Families can also self-refer. HSGN&NL have a variety of support services which address the needs of local families:Home-visiting volunteers: Volunteers are crucial to HSGN&NL. We would be unable to provide peer support for parents without them. They provide practical help with positive routines, creating connections with services like health, advocacy, communications and play.Group support: Designed to address a variety of needs including socialisation, isolation, make new connections and share experiences.VIG: Video Interactive Guidance; is a family- focused intervention which promotes sensitive and nurturing relationships between parents and their babiesPerinatal Peer Support: Our unique model of “wrap-around” support enables specially trained volunteers to support both parents, before baby is born and during the first three years of life. Intensive Perinatal Support: Work alongside families in crisis who need immediate support. Perinatal Family Support Worker will support mum, dad and siblings throughout the immediate crisis then signpost to volunteer or group support thereafter, if required.We are unique because we offer a holistic, wrap-around service for the entire family, which is not time limited and can flexibly adapt to the changing needs of families, from pregnancy to age 5.
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