Action Mental Health
Action Mental Health offer a range of services supporting the mental and emotional well-being of children, parents and families in East Belfast. Through AMH New Life Counselling, AMH MensSana and AMH New Horizons we provide therapeutic services including play therapy and family therapy, prevention and early intervention programmes for children, young people and key contacts in education, youth and community settings, and recovery support for adults.
Belfast City Council
Belfast City Council want our children and young people to feel safe, happy, empowered and supported at all stages of life. We do this by:
- Working with partners in east Belfast to provide play opportunities, led by our dedicated play team.
- We organise activities and events in our parks, community centres and play centres.
- We provide volunteering opportunities, safeguarding training, and we provide funding for programmes to support children and young people in communities and neighbourhoods.
For further information, contact play@belfastcity.gov.uk
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Health Visiting Service
The Health Visiting Service delivers a universal service to all children in East Belfast supporting, protecting and promoting health and well-being. Health Visiting works collaboratively with others in striving to give all children the best start in life.
BHSCT Sure Start Speech and Language Therapy
The Sure Start SLT Team in Belfast works with each Sure Start Project to support staff and parents to develop loving parent child relationships that are rich in connection and interaction.
Department of Education NI
The Department of Education (DE) vision is “Every child and young person is happy, learning and succeeding.” DE is responsible for setting policy, strategy and for the central administration of education and related services in Northern Ireland.
East Belfast SureStart
East Belfast Sure Start supports children under 4 and their families in eight ward areas in East Belfast. It provides services such as antenatal and postnatal support, child development sessions, family support, speech and language and additional needs support. We are passionate about linking with community. We aim to give children the best possible start in life by providing education on health and on the value of the relationship between the child and the parent. We work with parents at the antenatal stage right through until the child’s transition to nursery education.
EastSide Learning (EastSide Partnership)
| EastSide Partnership is a regeneration organisation which aims to ‘making East Belfast a better place’. As a project EastSide Learning does this through strategic coordination, interventions and collaboration with others to improve outcomes for children and families, particularly in the early years. EastSide Learning works alongside the Eastside Early Years Network to improve links across phases, share good practice and improve training and capacity for early year’s practitioners. |
Family Connections- Barnardo’s
Barnardo’s Family Connections service supports families in South and East Belfast. Our aims are to:
- promote family wellbeing and resilience
- build parent confidence and skills
- help children to learn and achieve at school
- strengthen community connectedness.
ParentingNI
Parenting NI support families through their support line, home support, parenting programmes and workshops and providing resources and information on their website.
PlayBoard NI
PlayBoard is the leading charity in Northern Ireland dedicated to the development and promotion of children and young people’s play. Play is an intrinsic aspect of children and young people’s lives and PlayBoard works from the premise that play is fundamental to a healthy and happy childhood.
PlayBoard is a membership-based organisation, all of whom are committed to helping us to achieve our goal of developing quality play opportunities that improve children and young people’s lives across Northern Ireland.
We do this by:
• Campaigning and lobbying
• Promoting best practice in play and play work
• Service delivery and development
• Training
• Research, evaluation and awareness raising
• Working in partnership with others to put play on the agenda of policy makers and resource providers.
Sandbrook Nursery School
Sandbrook Nursery School is situated in the Sydenham area of East Belfast with places for 52 children aged 3-4 years old. The building is a modern purpose-built Education Authority Nursery School set in unique extensive grounds on Wellwood Avenue
It is the aim of the school to share with parents in the all-round growth and development of their children. The Nursery provides an inclusive environment for all children and families in the community, with the nursery currently working towards Nursery School of Sanctuary Award.
Tor Bank
Tor Bank Special School caters for pupils from age 3 to 19. We provide a supportive and empathetic community in which parents, teachers, classroom assistants, therapists, nursing staff and other interested parties share and work in collaboration to design and implement programms to meet the holistic needs of each individual pupil, all of whom have complex learning preferences. The curriculum offered throughout the school is functional, relevant and pupil centred with the ultimate aim of helping each pupil to realise his or her potential successfully. We run a Tor Bank Tots group on a Monday and Friday and offer additional support to our nursery families in the form of home visits, drop in clinics, monthly coffee mornings and monthly parent workshops.