Perth Visitors Support & Advice Centre
Last updated: 28th July 2024
Support Type:
Voluntary
Need supported:
- Family Support
- Financial Inclusion
- Health / Wellbeing
Aim/Purpose:
The Centre aims to;
- Increase self-esteem
- Reduce social isolation
- Motivate & encourage positive communications which provides a scaffolding for a sense of wellbeing & promotes self-care for the family
- We welcome all visitors to HMP Perth & provide an excellent service for the SPS. From a good cup of coffee to an agency referral, we are help to help
- The Centre provides a safe space for before or after a visit
- Free food & refreshments
- We link in with the Family Contact Officers and all SPS staff
- Our Children’s worker facilitates informal play in the visit room on each family visit, using Baker Ross arts & crafts
- Local Churches support us through providing knitted clothes, supermarket vouchers & gifts at Christmas for 300 children
- Birthday gifts for each child until 12 years old
- We work closely with the Trussell trust to provide emergency food parcels & for prisoners on release
- Our staff are trauma informed & come from a range of professional backgrounds
- We work in partnership with Connecting Scotland for digital inclusion
- Safe Space for prisoner’s on release to wait for their families
Suitability criteria:
- All genders
- All ages
Assessment/referral process:
- Any agency, Self-referral
Families of prisoner’s.