Jigsaw Support Scheme Comes to Ashfield
Posted on: Friday, 26th June 2009, at 1:30 pm
Jigsaw is a registered charity which has recently funded a new Support Worker for the Ashfield area. The Support Worker can arrange to meet you close to your home and can offer advice/help on a wide range of issues, in a similar way to the Citizen’s Advice Bureau.
Some of the advantages of using this service are that, wherever possible, you will be dealt with by one person at agreed times with no waiting room queues; after you have made initial contact, they will get in touch with you to make the experience as user friendly as possible.
Amongst the issues that they may be able to help with are:
- Basic learning skills
- Helping you stay in your home
- Motability aids and adaptations
- Physical health & exercise
- Getting into training or employment
- Drug/alchohol problems
- Finding social & leisure interests
- General wellbeing
- Practical homecare
- Claiming benefits, budgeting and managing finances
The service is for Aults over 18 years.
