Home-Start Blackmore Vale is part of the national Home-Start network and offers free, confidential support, friendship and practical help to parents of children under five across North and West Dorset and South Somerset. Home-Start Blackmore Vale provides support to parents with at least one child under 5 who are going through a difficult time.  Being a parent, whatever your situation, can be very challenging, especially when children are young. Many parents feel exhausted and overwhelmed by the stresses of family life. For some parents it’s a particular struggle because they are also coping with issues such as post-natal depression, their or their child’s illness or disability, isolation or multiple births.

Focus:

- Whole Family Support

- Relationship Support

Activities:

- 1:1 volunteer-led family befriending to provide practical assistance and emotional support in the family home.

- Group-based support sessions

- Mothers in Mind Group

- Support for mums struggling with perinatal mental health problems in South Somerset.

Where:

In person for families living across Somerset

FIND OUT MORE: Visit https://www.homestartblackmorevale.org.uk/contact-us/  or call 01258 473038