Do you need our support?

As a parent you might ask for Home-Start’s help for all sorts of reasons:

• • You may be feeling isolated in your community, have no family nearby and be struggling to make friends

• • You may be finding it hard to cope because of your own or your child’s illness

• • You may have been hit hard by the death of a loved one
    

• • You may be really struggling with emotional and physical demands of having twins or triplets – perhaps born into an already large family

Help is at hand. We support any family living in Trafford with a child of any age, or any family living in Salford or Wigan who have at least one child under the age of five and who maybe finding it hard to cope.

But what do we mean by ‘support’? If you ask for Home-Start’s help you can be sure of total confidentiality.  Almost 25% of families refer themselves, the remainder having requests made on their behalf e.g. by a health visitor.

After asking for our support you will meet with one of our local co-ordinators who will carefully match you with one of our volunteers. Our volunteers, who all have parenting experience and have been safely recruited, will visit you for a couple of hours a week and give you both emotional and practical help.

What do I do next?

• • Contact us on 0161 865 4222

• • Call into our office at Stretford Children’s Centre, 9 Poplar Road, Stretford, M32 9AN.

• • Email us at admin@hsts.org.uk

• • Talk to your health visitor or social worker, etc

• If you are a health visitor or social worker, etc and want to refer a family to Home-Start, please see the information below.

Salford referral form – please click here

Trafford – to self-refer please click here, or if you are a professional please complete an Early Help Assessment

Wigan – if you need Home-Start support in Wigan and Leigh, you need to be part of the Motiv8 project – click here to find out more about the Motiv8 project