Our Services

Supporting people in Scotland living with HIV and Hepatitis C An introduction to our services

“ It really helped to speak to other positive people going through a similar situation and understanding what I feel” Waverley Care is Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C. If you are living with HIV or Hepatitis C, or are a friend, family member, partner or carer of someone living with one or both of these conditions, Waverley Care is here for you.

We offer support in a safe environment and can provide information and advice. We can also help if you just want to know more about HIV and Hepatitis C and how these conditions may affect you.

Our services are available to everybody regardless of gender, race or age. In addition, we provide specific support services for: • Africans • Children and Young People

• Gay and Bisexual Men • Women

Our services We offer support across Scotland. Our wide range of services aims to help you live life to the full. You can also be assured of complete confidentiality and a safe place to talk.

We’re here to support you with: • Your Physical Health and Treatment Medication and side effects, exercise and healthy eating, sexual health, complementary therapies....

• Your Emotional Health Improving self-esteem, feeling less isolated, residential support, dealing with stigma and discrimination....

• Meeting Other People Living with HIV/Hep C Speaking to someone who understands and can say ‘me too’, making new friends....

• A New Diagnosis Thinking positively about the future, understanding treatment, preventing onward transmission, if and how to tell people....

• Supporting Members of your Family Disclosing to children and other family members, supporting your children, counselling....

• Benefits, Housing, Finance and Immigration Completing application forms, appeals, debt management, housing relocation....

• Influencing Decisions Having your say on government HIV/Hep C policy and how services are developed....

“ I can take off the face I wear for the outside world and just be myself”

• Training, Employment and Skills Getting back to work, training opportunities, difficulties at work, employer training, training on HIV/Hep C....

• Faith and Spiritual Issues Non-judgemental pastoral support, reconciling faith and HIV, working with faith leaders....

• Living in, and Being Part of Your Community Getting to appointments, support in meetings, managing daily tasks....

Please contact us for more information on our services.

“ We can talk about our status and know that no-one is judging”

Volunteers and buddies Volunteers and buddies play a key part in Waverley Care’s work.

Volunteers carry out a wide range of roles from Buddying (providing friendship and one-to-one support) to reception/administration tasks, gardening and fundraising right through to offering complementary therapies.

We are particularly looking to involve people who are living with HIV or Hepatitis C as peer supporters and community advocates. We want to encourage members of the positive community to offer support to others and also to have a say in the issues that affect them.

Please contact your local office if you’d like to get involved or email us on volunteer@waverleycare.org.

11/2010

Contact details Scotland-wide Services and Waverley Care Edinburgh 3 Mansfield Place Edinburgh EH3 6NB Tel: 0131 558 1425 Email: info@waverleycare.org

Residential Respite and Home Support Waverley Care Milestone 113 Oxgangs Road North Edinburgh EH14 1EB Tel: 0131 441 6989 Email: milestone@waverleycare.org

Waverley Care Highland 34 Waterloo Place Inverness IV1 1NB Tel: 01463 711 585 Email: highland@waverleycare.org

Waverley Care Argyll & Bute and African Health Project - Glasgow & National The Renfield Centre 260 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4JP Tel: 0141 333 9393 Email: africanhealthproject@waverleycare.org Email: argyllandbute@waverleycare.org

African Health Project - Lanarkshire Glenalmond House Coathill Hospital Hospital Street Coatbridge ML5 4DN Tel: 07853 041130 Email: ahplanarkshire@waverleycare.org

Waverley Care, 3 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6NB Tel 0131 558 1425

Email info@waverleycare.org

Fax 0131 466 9883

Web www.waverleycare.org

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