Due to COVID-19 we are still recruiting, but are operating remotely to maintain social distancing. Please get in touch with our team for more details.
Volunteering Matters latest response to COVID-19
Family Mentors is an effective programme, proven to reduce the number of children at risk of going into care. By preventing and de-escalating issues, our volunteers help struggling families to turn things around.
Volunteers, recruited from the local community, come from diverse backgrounds and receive extensive training.
Support is overseen by our professional volunteer managers, who are embedded within the local authority’s children’s services team.
The projects recruit, train and match volunteers to mentor and support families with complex needs, such as alcohol or substance misuse, mental health and emotional well being and where children are at risk of significant harm through neglect. Volunteers make weekly visits to the families building up a strong relationship with the parent/s, listening to their problems and offering practical help.
Run in partnership with Council Social Service teams to target families most in need of support, our volunteers help keep families together and reduce the number of children on child protection plans and child in need plans. By improving parenting skills, reducing isolation and improving the quality of family life the reliance on social care services is also reduced.
Read the 2021 Impact report for Family Supporters Edinburgh
Find out more about our Family Mentors project in your area….
FOR GREENWICH CALL 0771 492 065
OR EMAIL
HELEN.MAUNSELL@VOLUNTEERINGMATTERS.ORG.UK
FOR eDINBURGH call 073 7769 2427 or EMAIL
kyle.mcfaddenyoung@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
FOR Southend CALL 01702 534262 OR EMAIL
catherine.whitehead@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
FOR WALTHAM FOREST email us at:
chris.kelleher@VOLUNTEERINGMATTERS.ORG.UK
TO READ ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF ONE OF OUR VOLUNTEERS, ADELE, CLICK HERE.