Aberlour’s Intensive Family Support Service, in partnership with Inverclyde Council/Health and Social Care Partnership Inverclyde, proactively identifies children and families, including those who have been in care and experienced trauma, that need that extra helping hand. The intensive service provides a tailored and comprehensive package of support to help them with a variety of challenges they face. 

How we Help 

We provide intensive relationship-based support that works alongside families and statutory services to build trust, strengthen connections and create stability in day-to-day life, so that change is meaningful and lasting. 

Our Intensive Family Support Service is delivered 7 days a week as well as during extended hours between 8am and 10pm. 

The support offered uses a strengths-based approach and is both emotional and practical. The service works with families and parents to secure a nurturing environment for pre-birth children – 26. It also supports parents, carers and kinship carers to develop their ability to care for their children, provide practical parenting skills and help build their ability to engage with the community. 

The service is flexible in its intensity and aims to encourage the building of family routines, resilience and improve parental confidence. 

All referrals come through Inverclyde Council. 

Aberlour Chief Officer Children and Families, Lynne O’Brien says: 

Families are right at the heart of the process. We support children and families to recognise their own strengths, identify what matters most to them, and take steps toward achieving positive and sustainable outcomes.