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Contact Information

Address
Ellis Street Complex, Ellis Street, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 8AZ
Contact Person
Alison Adair
Telephone Number
028 9331 5114
Email Address
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Web Address
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Additional Information

The Sharing the Care Short Break Service means that children with disabilities can spend some time with other families who are carefully chosen and vetted by Trust staff. The purpose of this is two-fold:

  1. To enhance the quality of a child’s life by providing opportunities to make new friends, and the chance to enjoy new experiences.
  2. To offer parents with a disabled child some respite, which literally means a ‘period of rest’. During that time they can ‘recharge their batteries’, spend some free time together, or with other family members, thereby enabling them to cope better with the demands of disabilities

Access to the service is gained via the childrens disability team subject to service criteria and an assessment of need.

Contacts :-

Ballymena Service, Slemish Community Services Centre Braid Valley Hospital Site Cushandall Road Ballymena Telephone: 028 2563 5640

Carrickfergus Service Ellis Street Complex Ellis Street Carrickfergus Telephone: 028 9331 5114

Ballymoney Service Armour Day Centre, 6 Newal Road, Ballymoney BT53 6HD Telephone: 028 2766 1840

Magherafelt Service Sperrin House 43, Queens Avenue Magherafelt Telephone: 028 7930 1700


Available to Age Groups
All Ages
Category of Services
  • Disability - Learning Disability, Autism, ADHD
  • Disability - Physical & Sensory
Areas covered
  • Ballymena
  • Ballymoney
  • Carrickfergus
  • Coleraine
  • Cookstown
  • Larne
  • Magherafelt
  • Moyle
  • Newtownabbey
Method of Access (Referral)
  • Social Worker



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