Home-Start Caithness
Address:
Community Education Office
Ackergill Street
Wick
KW1 4DT
W: www.caithness.org/community/healthandwelfare/homestart1.htm
Home-Start Caithness
What is Home-Start?Home-Start Caithness is a voluntary organisation in which volunteers offer regular support, friendship and practical help to young families who are experiencing stress.
What do Volunteers do?
Volunteers visit families in their own homes, where there is at least one child under five years of age.
They form relationships with the families in which time can be shared and understanding developed.
Playing with the children, talking and listening, helping in and out of the home - all these kinds of help can be offered.
Who are Home-Start Volunteers?
Home-Start volunteers are people who are parents themselves or who have parenting experience and understand the stresses of bringing up children - which can be a difficult and demanding job!
No specific qualifications are required, all volunteers are good listeners, warm and compassionate and aware of the needs of families.
Before a volunteer goes to work with a family they must attend a training programme. It is HomeStart policy to rigorously screen all volunteers before they are matched with families.
Regular support and on-going training is offered to all volunteers by the Co-ordinator.
