Referrals
How to get help
We accept referrals from parents, carers, health professionals, and other practitioners working within the Wokingham Borough.
If you have at least one child under the age of five and are finding it difficult to cope with the day-to-day challenges of parenting, you can refer yourself for support.
If you know a family with at least one child under five who may be struggling, please talk to them about Home-Start. Our trained volunteers and family support team may be able to provide practical and emotional support to help them through a challenging time.
Referrals can be made by parents themselves or by professionals working with the family.
Professional Referrals
We offer emotional support to parents and will interact remotely with their children as appropriate, offering advice and guidance on parenting skills and help to reduce isolation and low confidence and self-esteem. We will also work hard to signpost families to other services as appropriate and will continue to work in partnership with other statutory and non-statutory services across the borough.
Click on the button below for our online Professional Referral Form
If the referral is urgent please email us on manager@home-startwd.org.uk.
If on receiving the referral we have questions, or we feel it’s unclear why the referral has taken place we will be in contact for clarification before contacting the family in question.
Thank you for working with us to provide support to vulnerable families across the Borough.
Refer yourself
If you are a parent with at least one child under the age of five then we may be able to help you. Do you ever:
- Feel isolated in your community, with no family nearby and struggling to make friends?
- Feel overwhelmed with postnatal illness but find it hard to talk to anyone about it?
- Feel like you are having a hard time coping with your child’s behaviour?
- Struggle with the emotional and physical demands of having young children?
- Struggle to cope with a disability?
Maybe you just need someone to talk to? Someone who won’t judge you; a shoulder to cry on or perhaps someone to play with or read to your children so that you can do some household chores.
Please call us, text us or use WhatsApp on the following numbers: 07742 012962 or 07786 431786 if you have any questions
Click on the button below to make an online self referral.
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