Community Partners
The Victims and Survivors Service (VSS) funds and works in partnership with 49 community and voluntary organisations across NI and beyond to deliver health and wellbeing support and survivors within local communities to over 12,000 victims and survivors per year.
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, the PEACE IV – Shared Spaces and Services – Victims and Survivors programme also provides additional funding to target hard to reach and marginalised individuals and communities that have suffered as a result of the Troubles, through the development, implementation and co-ordination of a number of new and innovative initiatives.
These include:
- The establishment of a Health & Wellbeing Caseworker Network
- The establishment of an Advocacy Support Network
- A resilience programme to address the individual needs of victims and survivors, including level one and level two mental health interventions
- Development of the capacity of the sector through training and development (to meet national and regional standards), research and improved regulation
For more information on each of our Community Partners please click on the links below.
- Action Mental Health -New Life Counselling
- Antrim Voluntary Welfare Group (For further details about this organisation please contact VSS)
- Aisling Centre
- Ashton Community Trust (Bridge of Hope)
- Aurora Counselling
- Barnardo’s
- CALMS (Community Action for Locally Managing Stress)
- Castlehill Foundation
- Centre for Health and Wellbeing
- County Armagh Phoenix Group
- Cúnamh
- Decorum NI
- Derry Well Women
- FAIR (Families Acting for Innocent Relatives)
- Families Beyond Conflict
- Families Moving On
- Holy Trinity Centre
- Koram Centre
- Larne Voluntary Welfare Group
- Lenadoon Community Forum
- MAST
- Mid Ulster Victims’ Empowerment (MUVE)
- Military and Police Support of West Tyrone (MAPS)
- Newry and Mourne Local Voluntary Welfare Group
- Omagh Police Wives
- Out of the Shadows
- Paper Trail
- Pat Finucane Centre
- REACT
- Relatives for Justice (RFJ)
- South and East Tyrone Welfare Support
- South Armagh Rural Women’s Network
- South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF)
- South Tyrone Voluntary Welfare Group
- Springhill Community House
- Survivors of Trauma
- Tara Centre
- The Ely Centre
- The Strule Association
- Tullyvallen Family Support
- UDR Association Castlederg
- UDR Association Coleraine
- UDR Association Enniskillen
- UDR Association Lisnaskea
- Ulster Human Rights Watch
- Victims and Survivors Trust (VAST)
- WAVE Trauma Centre
- Wounded Police and Families Association