This page details a list of local support services in Renfrewshire that you can contact for further support for your family. These services range from family support to specific support needs.
If you run a service and it is not in this list or your details may have changed, please contact us so we can adjust.
Barnardo’s Threads is a holistic family support service for young parents/carers in Renfrewshire, helping them give their children the best start in life. There are a range of services on offer at Threads for families to get the support they need at the earliest opportunity to provide a healthy, nurturing, stable environment for their children. These include: groups/peer learning, pre and post natal group programmes, individual tailored support to each family and practical and emotional support.
Threads
Barnardo’s, 4 Lochfield Road, Paisley PA2 7RG
T: 0141 884 6696
E: paisley.threads@barnardos.org.uk
Families First Renfrewshire exists to ensure that children grow up happy, healthy and ready to learn. It brings together existing council, health and voluntary services together to make them easier to find and enable families to give their children the best start in life. Their offices are located in Ferguslie, Foxbar, Gallowhill, Johnstone and Linwood.
Families First Ferguslie
Glencoats Primary School, Falcon Crescent, Paisley PA3 1NS
T: 0141 618 3278
Families First Foxbar
Heriot Primary School, Heriot Avenue, Foxbar, Paisley PA2 0DS
T: 01505 812 914
Families First Gallowhill
Gallowhill Primary School, Netherhill Road, Paisley PA3 4SF
T: 0141 618 4763
Families First Johnstone
Auchenlodment Primary School, Aspen Place, Johnstone PA5 9QQ
T: 0141 618 3906
Families First Linwood
Woodlands Primary School, Abernethy Drive, Linwood PA3 3EX
T: 0141 618 3792
E: cbsfamiliesfirst@renfrewshire.gov.uk
W: www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/2888/Families-First-Renfrewshire
Relationships Scotland supports individuals, couples and families experiencing relationship difficulties. They have offices in Glasgow and Kilmarnock, from which they offer a range of services, including family mediation, counselling and supervised contact, to families throughout the West of Scotland.
Relationships Scotland – Family Mediation West of Scotland
19 Woodside Place, Glasgow G3 7QL
T: 0141 332 2731
E: info@fmwest.org.uk
Relationships Scotland – Family Mediation West of Scotland
1st floor offices, 28-30 Grange Street, Kilmarnock KA1 2DD
T: 01563 572 429
E: fmayr@btconnect.com
Renfrewshire ADP’s Family Support Service exists to help people who are affected by someone else’s substance misuse. They operate a drop-in service (Mon-Wed 10:00-14:00) and can also offer one-to-one advice and support.
Family Support Service
Renfrewshire ADP, 20 Back Sneddon Street, Paisley PA3 2DJ
T: 0141 618 7629
E: donna.reid@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
W: www.renfrewshire.hscp.scot/article/5061/Alcohol–Drug-Partnership-ADP
Action for Children’s Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a specialist family service team which supports families with young people aged 11-17 in Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire. FFT is a short-term intervention working with families with relationship difficulties, high levels of conflict or substance misuse and/or mental health problems. FFT therpists work with the families’ strengths to help overcome the difficulties they are facing. Referrals are made through social work.
Functional Family Therapy
Action for Children, c/o Renfrewshire Council,
St James Centre, 10 St James Street, Paisley PA3 2HT
Barnardo’s Hear 4U project provides advocacy for children and young people, helping them to have their say in decisions that affect them. In Renfrewshire, they prioritise children who are involved in the children’s hearing system, child protection process or integrated assessment.
Hear 4U Renfrewshire
Barnardo’s, 12 Lochfield Road, Paisley PA2 7RG
T: 0141 884 7896
E: hear4u@barnardos.org.uk
W: www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/hear-4-u-advocacy-service-renfrewshire
Home-Start centres provide a range of support to families with at least one child under five years old. Each centre has trained volunteers who support families who may be struggling with isolation, physical health, bereavement or a range of other issues.
Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde
70 Back Sneddon Street, Paisley PA3 2BY
T: 0141 889 5272
T: 01475 603 441
E: theteam@home-start-renfrewshire.org.uk
W: www.home-start-renfrewshire.org.uk
intandem is a mentoring programme for children and young people in kinship care. It supports young people aged 8 to 14 years, and often carries on beyond age 14.
Mentors can make a big difference to a young person, building their confidence, helping them to try new things and set goals. By meeting regularly (often weekly), they build a positive relationship and have lots of fun together.
intandem is managed by Inspiring Scotland and delivered by 11 charity partners in 19 local authorities.
Find out more www.intandem.scot
Nordoff Robbins use music therapy to help people with a range of conditions including learning disabilities, neurological disorders, life-limiting illness, brain injury, cerebral palsy, mental health issues, trauma, stroke and dementia.
The RCA Trust is an independent voluntary organisation with over 35 years experience in supporting people across Renfrewshire. The main aim of the organisation is to help and support people who are both directly and indirectly affected by alcohol, gambling and other problem behaviours to reduce the impact on the individual, their families and the wider community as a whole.
RCA Trust
8 Incle Street, Paisley PA1 1HP
T: 0141 887 0880
E: info@rcatrust.org.uk
W: www.rcatrust.org.uk
Renfrewshire Carers Centre can offer free support and advice to kinship carers.
Renfrewshire Carers Centre
Unit 55, Embroidery Mill, Abbey Mill Business Centre, Paisley PA1 1TJ
T: 0141 887 3643
E: enquiries@renfrewshirecarers.org.uk
W: www.renfrewshirecarers.org.uk
The Spark is a leading provider of couples counselling, marriage counselling, individual counselling and family counselling in Scotland. In Paisley, they offer a range of face-to-face, online and telephone appointments for couples counselling, marriage counselling, relationship counselling, family counselling and youth counselling.
The Spark Counselling Paisley
The Wynd Centre, 6 School Wynd, Paisley PA1 2DB
T: 0808 802 2088
W: www.thespark.org.uk/relationship-support-for-couples-individuals/local-counselling-locations/spark-counselling-paisley
Spark of Genius provides education, residential care, autism services, community support and post-16 programmes for children and young people throughout the UK.
Spark of Genius
Trojan House, Phoenix Business Park, Paisley, Renfrewshire PA1 2BH
T: 0141 587 2710
E: admin@sparkofgenius.com
W: http://sparkofgenius.com/
SLCo has a range of information services that provide help and advice to parents and carers about speech, language and communication. Their staff cover Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross, Edinburgh and Lothians, Glasgow, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Borders and Western Isles; they organise local support groups, workshops, one-to-one support, and can arrange a Speech Language Therapist guided support service.
The Speech Language Communication Company
42-44 Castle Street, Dundee DD1 3AQ
T: 01382 250 060
text: 07580 022 151
E: admin@s-l-co.uk
W: www.speech-language-communication-company.uk
Sense Scotland run several projects for families with disabled children and young people in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. TouchBase is a purpose built resource centre that helps school-aged children with communication support needs to develop their skills, take on new challenges and make friends. Their Parent Enabler Project provides a range of family support, tailored to the specific needs of the family.
Sense Scotland
43 Middlesex Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow G41 1EE
T: 0300 330 9292
E: info@sensescotland.org.uk
W: www.sensescotland.org.uk/what-we-do/touchbase-a-sense-of-place/
Ypeople, formerly YMCA Glasgow, provides support to a range of vulnerable groups. Their Ypeer Mentoring project is a service for care experienced young people (aged 14-26) in Glasgow and surrounding areas, where peer mentors support young people leaving care or making another life transition.
Ypeople
William Harte House, 15 Dava Street, Glasgow G51 2JA
T: 0141 565 1200
E: admin@ypeople.org.uk
W: www.ypeople.org.uk
