Community Partners

VSS funds and works in partnership with 45 community and voluntary organisations across NI and beyond to deliver health and wellbeing support and services to over 12,000 victims and survivors per year within local communities.

This includes:

• Counselling/Psychological Therapies
• Complementary Therapies
• Personal Development Programmes
• Welfare Support
• Truth, Justice and Acknowledgement
• Social Support

This support and these services are funded by The Executive Office.

In addition to the support and services listed above, VSS is lead partner of VSS-PULSE (Partnership for Understanding, Learning, Support and Education), a £21.7m project supported by the PEACEPLUS Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.

The Partnership’s objective is to improve the health and wellbeing of victims and survivors by increasing and improving access to high quality services across Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

It will target hard to reach and marginalised individuals and communities which have suffered from the troubles/conflict and will engage them in cohesive trauma informed support.

The Regional Trauma Network

The Regional Trauma Network is a managed care network that connects specialist trauma care by drawing on existing resources and expertise from the statutory and community and voluntary sector. The Regional Trauma Network is currently within a pilot phase of at least three years, having opened for referrals on 31 March 2023.

This network delivers a comprehensive regional trauma service across the Health and Social Care Trusts, VSS and our funded community and voluntary partner organisations, to enable those experiencing trauma related difficulties to access support in the right place at the right time.