Family Action

Family Action is delighted to be supporting National Family Week in 2011. As an organisation that provides support to disadvantaged children and families, this event epitomises the work we do – bringing people together and celebrating families of all shapes and sizes.

Website: www.family-action.org.uk

Family Action has been a leading provider of services to disadvantaged and socially isolated families since 1869. Based in 100 locations across England, we work with over 45,000 vulnerable families and children a year.

Family Action tackles some of the most complex and difficult issues facing families today, including domestic abuse, mental health and financial hardship.

These issues have a huge impact on the health, wellbeing and development of children, and on relationships within the family. Family Action works with whole families to help them find solutions to problems, no matter how difficult, so that they become safer, stronger and more optimistic about their future.

Through a range of our services, Family Action is able to plug the gap through which families with complex needs often fall, keeping children safe while addressing their long term needs. Some of the services we provide include: Young Carers support groups, family support, parental mental health support, and projects working with mothers suffering from post natal depression.

As well as providing on the ground support, Family Action is committed to using its experience as a frontline service provider to campaign for change that will benefit other families in similar situations.