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Do you ever feel like this?
- Isolated, with no family nearby and struggling to make friends.
- Suffering with post-natal depression but finding it hard to talk to anyone about it.
- Having a hard time coping with your child's illness.
- Overwhelmed by the death of a loved one.
- Struggling with the emotional and physical demands of having twins, triplets or more.
- Struggling to cope with a disability or relationship problems.
- Tired, unhappy, exhausted.
...or any similar problems.
Everyone needs
a bit of help
sometimes...
Many parents need help, friendship, advice or support during those early years when children are young.
There is no rulebook for raising a family and sometimes it can seem overwhelming, particularly if your family is going through difficult times.
Home-Start is here to support you so that day-to-day family life and your children's future can be so much brighter.
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Home-Start can help you and your family
If you have a least one child under five then we can help. We support thousands of parents just like you through our Home-Start volunteers. They are people who are parents themselves or have parenting experience - so they know just what you're going through.
They will visit you in your own home, usually once a week. You decide what you will do together.
Maybe you need someone to talk to who won't judge you; a shoulder to cry on or perhaps someone to play with or read to your children; maybe a bit of support to make or keep medical appointments or to find out what else is available locally. You decide.
You choose to have a Home-Start volunteer and you decide when Home-Start support should stop.
You can also join in our family groups or social activities if you want to.
It's free and confidential
You don't have to pay for Home-Start's help and it's confidential. Home-Start volunteers will respect your privacy and never forget that you have invited them
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What other families say
about Home-Start
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"When the Health Visitor initially suggested that I have a Home-Start volunteer, I was horrified. I didn't like admitting defeat. But I couldn't have been without my volunteer. Just knowing she was coming, the children loved her and she gave me company and support from somebody I could really trust."
A mum in Ash
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"If it hadn't been for my volunteer, we wouldn't be a family any more."
A mum in Bellfields
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"The level of relief you feel at knowing you're not completely alone in a situation. The volunteer is willing to do whatever is needed to make things manageable for the rest of the week"
A mum in central Guildford
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"It has been so important for me to have the opportunity to attend the group. Before the group, having fairly recently moved here, I was feeling very isolated and there is no doubt the children were suffering because I felt so down."
A mum at Pirbright Army Camp talking about the Family Group set up there
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"Home-Start is brilliant. The volunteer is non-judgemental, which I find refreshing and I have been helped enormously by her visits."
A mum in Normandy |
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