Services
Family Support Services Hub
Ċentru Antida is the Foundation’s family services hub. It lies in the heart of Ħal Tarxien and is open from 7.30am or earlier until 4 pm daily in winter time (sometimes later as well) and from 7.30 am to 2 pm in summer.
Support services include the following:
.. Community Social Work: family support, home-visits, outreach work, advocacy, referral, accompaniment, information, emotional support, groupwork and a range of in-kind supports. Social work support is provided in the catchment areas of Ħal Tarxien, Paola, Santa Luċija and Birżebbuġa.
.. Volunteer Handymen who are also deployed for basic repair and maintenance work in support of vulnerable and poor families.
.. Volunteering opportunities, including supported volunteering opportunities for service users and volunteer mentoring.
.. Charity shop in Tarxien, next door to Ċentru Antida, which operates as a fundraising mechanism and a means to provide in-kind supports to families facing financial hardship.
SOAR Service: advocacy and Peer Support by survivors for survivors of domestic violence.
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 Mental Health Nurse, home-visits, social work support, mediation with employers and officials of post-secondary education and training establishments, and support literature in Maltese.
Emotional Freedom Service (Linked to the LWIEN and the Social Work services): for persons afflicted by such difficult emotions as anger, fear, grudges and resentment, anxiety and other emotional distress.
Community Social Work Service of the Foundation cuts across all the above services. In the main, workers operate at community level.
Volunteering Programme: a range of volunteering opportunities are available for interested persons as well as service users. Opportunities include: befriending, mentoring, learning support, reception work, handyman, transport, fundraising, handicrafts production, admin support and others.
Ċentru Antida is the Foundation’s family services hub. It lies in the heart of Ħal Tarxien and is open from 7.30am or earlier until 4 pm daily in winter time (sometimes later as well) and from 7.30 am to 2 pm in summer.
Support services include the following:
.. Community Social Work: family support, home-visits, outreach work, advocacy, referral, accompaniment, information, emotional support, groupwork and a range of in-kind supports. Social work support is provided in the catchment areas of Ħal Tarxien, Paola, Santa Luċija and Birżebbuġa.
.. Volunteer Handymen who are also deployed for basic repair and maintenance work in support of vulnerable and poor families.
.. Volunteering opportunities, including supported volunteering opportunities for service users and volunteer mentoring.
.. Charity shop in Tarxien, next door to Ċentru Antida, which operates as a fundraising mechanism and a means to provide in-kind supports to families facing financial hardship.
SOAR Service: advocacy and Peer Support by survivors for survivors of domestic violence.
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 Mental Health Nurse, home-visits, social work support, mediation with employers and officials of post-secondary education and training establishments, and support literature in Maltese.
Emotional Freedom Service (Linked to the LWIEN and the Social Work services): for persons afflicted by such difficult emotions as anger, fear, grudges and resentment, anxiety and other emotional distress.
Community Social Work Service of the Foundation cuts across all the above services. In the main, workers operate at community level.
Volunteering Programme: a range of volunteering opportunities are available for interested persons as well as service users. Opportunities include: befriending, mentoring, learning support, reception work, handyman, transport, fundraising, handicrafts production, admin support and others.