Business Name: Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde

Website: http://www.hsri.org.uk

Email: Rebecca@hsri.org.uk or Lisa@hsri.org.uk

Address: Suite 1B, Clarence House, 7 Hood Street, Greenock, PA15 1YQ

Telephone: 01475 603 441

Overview:

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde (HSRI) is an award winning, early intervention/prevention family support charity, providing volunteer led parent-to-parent support, working alongside parents and their children to improve family life. We train our local volunteers, usually parents themselves to empower parents to self-manage, with support, to achieve better wellbeing outcomes for themselves and their children.

Our support involves regular home visits, group work and intensive support, with assistance encompassing access to services such as housing, literacy, and welfare benefits. We work with adults who have at least one child under five.

Families are usually referred through a health professional, social work services or self-referral. Our supported families often face barriers to engagement and are amongst the most marginalised in society.  We work with parents coping with multiple challenges: physical and mental health difficulties, social isolation, distressed child-behaviour, post-natal depression, unemployment, poverty, and trauma. We are connected and integrated within our local communities and see first-hand the inequalities faced by too many families.   

We offer weekly home-visits to families for as long as families need it – these are carried out by our trained volunteers. Volunteer visits offer vulnerable parents the time and space for a supportive chat, play time with children, practical help and reassurance and linking to other local services and activities. We also deliver 6 weekly groups across in Inverclyde including Perinatal, ‘New to Scotland’ for families who have recently come to live in Inverclyde, Dads group, Parents group, Family group and ASN/Neurodiverse group as well as our targeted cost-of-living support designed to support low-income families. 

Additionally, we deliver a range of evidence-based self-development programmes for parents and volunteers to increase confidence, self-awareness, parenting skills and self-esteem. Programmes include but not limited to; Infant First Aid, Equip for Life Coaching, Mellow Bumps, Trauma Informed Training, Cooking skills and Suicide Prevention.