Services
Family Support Services Centre and Satellite Centre
Ċentru Antida is the Foundation’s main family service hub. It lies in the heart of Ħal Tarxien. It is open from 8am or earlier until 5 pm daily in winter time (sometimes later as well) and from 7.30 am to 2 pm in summer. It operates a satellite family support centre in Birżebbuġa through which some of the services are extended.
Ċentru Enrichetta (The satellite centre) is open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7.30 am to 2 pm.
Support services available at the 2 family services centres include the following:
..Social Work: family support, home-visits, outreach work, advocacy, referral, accompaniment, information, emotional support, groupwork and in kind support. Social work support is provided in the catchment areas of Ħal Tarxien, Paola, Fgura, Ħaż-Żabbar and Birżebbuġa.
..Volunteer Handymen who are also deployed for basic repair and maintenance work in support of vulnerable and poor families.
..Learning Support opportunities for vulnerable children and adults, including self-esteem, literacy tutoring, hands-on parent workshops on teaching and learning strategies.
..Volunteering opportunities, including supported volunteering opportunities for service users and volunteer mentoring.
.. Charity shops in Tarxien, next door to Ċentru Antida, which operates as a fundraising mechanism and a means to provide in-kind support to families facing financial hardship. Another is based at Ċentru Enrichetta in Birżebbuġa and is open on Tuesdays between 8.30 and 11.30 am.
The SOAR Service: advocacy and support by survivors for victims and survivors of domestic violence (soar@antidemalta.org). The service includes a preventive dimension through its workshops for stakeholders. The Foundation’s Social Workers co-work with the SOAR Service team to support self-referred and referred women and their children.
The LWIEN Service: offers professional guidance and non-formal education for family caregivers of persons with severe mental health problems. The service includes family consultations by a senior practitioner (psychiatric nurse), support groups, home-visits, social work, mediation with employers and officials of post-secondary education and training establishments, and support literature in Maltese.
The Emotional Freedom Service (Linked to the LWIEN and the Social Work services): for persons wanting to be free from their anger, fear, grudges and resentment or other emotional distress.
The Y-Assist is an initiative offering supported accommodation to vulnerable mothers and their children. It currently runs 2 residences. It is an joint initiative of The Malta Trust Foundation and the St Jeanne Antide Foundation.
The Social Work Service of the Foundation cuts across all the above services. In the main, workers operate at community level.
Overseas Development Projects: SJAF works with partners in developing countries to formulate anti-poverty projects. SJAF has been awarded public funding of such projects in Pakistan, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Malawi and Peru.
Centering Prayer Group for contemplative prayer practice.
Ċentru Antida is the Foundation’s main family service hub. It lies in the heart of Ħal Tarxien. It is open from 8am or earlier until 5 pm daily in winter time (sometimes later as well) and from 7.30 am to 2 pm in summer. It operates a satellite family support centre in Birżebbuġa through which some of the services are extended.
Ċentru Enrichetta (The satellite centre) is open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7.30 am to 2 pm.
Support services available at the 2 family services centres include the following:
..Social Work: family support, home-visits, outreach work, advocacy, referral, accompaniment, information, emotional support, groupwork and in kind support. Social work support is provided in the catchment areas of Ħal Tarxien, Paola, Fgura, Ħaż-Żabbar and Birżebbuġa.
..Volunteer Handymen who are also deployed for basic repair and maintenance work in support of vulnerable and poor families.
..Learning Support opportunities for vulnerable children and adults, including self-esteem, literacy tutoring, hands-on parent workshops on teaching and learning strategies.
..Volunteering opportunities, including supported volunteering opportunities for service users and volunteer mentoring.
.. Charity shops in Tarxien, next door to Ċentru Antida, which operates as a fundraising mechanism and a means to provide in-kind support to families facing financial hardship. Another is based at Ċentru Enrichetta in Birżebbuġa and is open on Tuesdays between 8.30 and 11.30 am.
The SOAR Service: advocacy and support by survivors for victims and survivors of domestic violence (soar@antidemalta.org). The service includes a preventive dimension through its workshops for stakeholders. The Foundation’s Social Workers co-work with the SOAR Service team to support self-referred and referred women and their children.
The LWIEN Service: offers professional guidance and non-formal education for family caregivers of persons with severe mental health problems. The service includes family consultations by a senior practitioner (psychiatric nurse), support groups, home-visits, social work, mediation with employers and officials of post-secondary education and training establishments, and support literature in Maltese.
The Emotional Freedom Service (Linked to the LWIEN and the Social Work services): for persons wanting to be free from their anger, fear, grudges and resentment or other emotional distress.
The Y-Assist is an initiative offering supported accommodation to vulnerable mothers and their children. It currently runs 2 residences. It is an joint initiative of The Malta Trust Foundation and the St Jeanne Antide Foundation.
The Social Work Service of the Foundation cuts across all the above services. In the main, workers operate at community level.
Overseas Development Projects: SJAF works with partners in developing countries to formulate anti-poverty projects. SJAF has been awarded public funding of such projects in Pakistan, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Malawi and Peru.
Centering Prayer Group for contemplative prayer practice.
