Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire’s (HSGNNL) purpose is to support and empower families and volunteers, helping them to grow in confidence and resilience, improve /physical wellbeing whilst building strong relationships within the family and in the wider community.

Our Values encompass:

• Inclusive

• Nurturing

• Compassion

• Empowering

• Curiosity

• Collaboration

 
Our main aims are:

• To promote health and wellbeing. HSGNNL is committed to ensuring the welfare of children is uncompromised and families affected by mental health issues are supported throughout the antenatal and perinatal phase and beyond.

• Community Engagement – Promote community engagement through signposting and building capacity to reduce isolation and loneliness. Encourage families to interact with community groups to build the strength of the local community.  Empower families and volunteers through training and workshops and strengthen connections.

• Deliver support that is right for families – through evaluation and consultation directly with families and other services, we evolve to continue to meet local needs and compliment other support available.

• Inform local and national policy from our experiences and ensure family and children’s views are shared with local and national policy makers.

 

Our activities include home visiting volunteer support and group activities which increase confidence through peer support and socialisation.

 

HSGNNL believes in providing a holistic scaffold of support for families and works with a variety of partners to achieve positive outcomes. We receive referrals from a variety of sources – Health Visitors, Social Work, Perinatal services, Education, Clinical Psychologists and other organisations. Families can also self-refer.