Alana House - Women's Community Project
Who to contact
- Contact Name
- Alana House
- Contact Position
- Women's Project Administrator
- Telephone
- 0118 9217640
- alana.house@pactcharity.org
- Website
- www.pactcharity.org/alana-house
- Alana House ~ What's On
- Parent Organisation
- Parents And Children Together (PACT)
Where to go
- Name
- Alana House
- Address
-
2 Southern Court
South Street
Reading
Berkshire - Postcode
- RG1 4QS
Time / Date Details
- Time of day
- Afternoon
- Session Information
-
For information on current activities please contact us
Other Details
Costs
- Is there a charge for
using this service? - No
Availability
- Referral required
- Yes
- Referral Details
If you would like to make a referral please contact the Communities Team on 01189 217640 or email alana.house@pactcharity.org. Alternatively women can self-refer at drop in
- Other notes
Alana House provides information, support and advice to women across Reading, and areas of Berkshire to help with a wide variety of needs including accommodation, domestic abuse, children and families, social isolation, offending behaviour and substance misuse.
Support Workers help women to identify their needs and work in partnership through keywork to achieve their goals. Alana House often supports women to engage with statutory services, where they would otherwise struggle.
Alana House group programme changes quarterly, and includes a job club where women develop employability skills, wellbeing and mindfulness sessions, fitness, literacy and numeracy and parenting skills. Alana House utilises a multiagency approach, liaising with other agencies often to facilitate support at their premises on South Street, so women can access services in a safe environment. Specialist services available during the week include Reading Borough Council Outreach worker in attendance at drop ins, Sexual Health Nurse and drug and alcohol misuse support group.
Alana House also runs BB4K programmes (www.pactcharity.org/community-projects/bounce-back-4-kids). Bounce Back 4 Kids (BB4K) is a support programme developed by PACT that uses therapeutic techniques to support children who have been victims or witnesses of domestic abuse. The programme works with the children and their parents to come to terms with experiencing family breakdowns. The programme consists of children’s support groups run concurrently with parent support groups.
The BB4K programme has a number of key aims:
- To help break the cycle of domestic abuse
- To raise children’s self-esteem and to give them an opportunity to explore and express their feelings through fun, child-focussed activities, in a safe therapeutic way
- To improve children’s school attendance and learning and development
Ratings
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