Home Start West Essex: Home-Visiting & Telephone Befriending Service For Families

Free, confidential family support service for families, with at least one child under 5 years old, with a range of issues such as loneliness and isolation; mothers with postnatal depression; one parents or parents experiencing relationship problems; families struggling with the emotional and physical demands of having twins,multiple births or several pre-school children; family overwhelmed by the death of a loved one; families where there are special needs, disabilities or an ill child.

Friendship families pre-school children young children postnatal pregnancy newborn Emotional Support separation pre-school grief loss early years bereavement death special needs Disabled children illness lonely isolated mother father single parent mono parental Homestart loneliness isolation parenting depression mum Dad Family Support