Family 2

Mum lived in married quarters on an army barracks, most of the wives seemed to find it great fun with a good social life and a ready-made family but for this Mum who suffered with poor mental health and agoraphobia, she felt like she was an outsider looking in. She...

Family 1

I met Mum when she attended a Me Time Group that I was running. She told us in the group that in the past she had been homeless, addicted to heroin and described herself as “the lowest of the low” adding that she would “do ANYTHING for money, just to get my next fix.”...

Building Better Opportunities case study

Home-Start had a great opportunity that I was keen to be apart of: this was the BBO work placement. I was interested in both the office placement and the family group placement, taking advantage of the experience I would gain from both. The group placement meant I was...