FAST are a team of Family Support Workers, Family Support Assistants and a Senior Practitioner (Social worker) who are based at the Family Support and Contact Centre on Coffee Hall.  

FAST can work with you and your family where:

• You might be struggling to care for the needs of your children and need help to understand how best to support and care for them
• Your children might be at risk of harm or abuse and you need help to keep them safe
• You might be having problems coping with your children's behavior and need support with developing effective parenting strategies
• You might have your own health and well- being needs or problems with substance misuse which impact on your parenting
• You might have financial and housing difficulties which are putting you and your family at risk of losing your home or struggling to maintain a safe home environment.
• You or your children may need direct support to understand how to increase the children’s safety and wellbeing