Supporting Families North Belfast (Holistic Care Pathway for Families)

Supporting Families North Belfast (SFNB) Project is a partnership of four Healthy Living Centres and WISPA in North Belfast and the Project brings together individual elements from each of the partners to deliver a holistic care pathway using good health as the foundation for the delivery of family support services.

SFNB can deliver a range of children’s confidence and resiliency programmes to local primary schools and community centres. The programmes will be based on key nutritional and physical activities designed to aid the development of a healthy lifestyle.

CHILDREN’S HEALTH PROGRAMMES will be delivered as part of the SFNB project as follows:

• Children’s Health programme for pupils in primary 2/3
• Self Esteem programme for pupils in primary 5/6
• Moving On programme for pupils in primary 7

PARENTS/CARERS PROGRAMME to local Primary Schools/Community Groups.  SFNB provides an 18 week parent/carer programme that is broken down into three elements:

• Nutritional element- 6 sessions
• Physical activity element- 6 sessions
• Personal development/ stress management element- 6 sessions

JOINT PARENTS/CARERS AND CHILDREN PROGRAMMES 6 week programme to designed to strengthen family relationships and communication

NEW LIFE COUNSELLING (Now part of Action Mental Health) can provide:

• Child Counselling
• Time Together
• Adult counselling

Contact Trish Brady at [email protected] for access to this service.