Type of service: Befriending/mentoring

Website: http://www.hsclacks.co.uk

Home-Start offers support, friendship and practical help to families with young children across Clackmannanshire. Home-Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers, who are parents themselves, to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer informal, friendly and confidential support. Any type of referral is accepted. Once a family has been referred and a referral form has been completed, Home-Start Clackmannanshire will arrange to visit the family to discuss their needs and answer any questions they may have. Home-Start Clackmannanshire will then 'match' the family as quickly as possible with a suitable volunteer, who will be introduced to the family and will visit weekly at an agreed time for as long as there is a need.

Aimed at: Child , Parent/carer of a child

Gender: All genders

Covers: Clackmannanshire

Specialisms: Generic

Other specialisms: Learning disability