Need to Talk

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Need To Talk (NTT) is a cross border counselling, confidence building and peer support programme for socially isolated people with sight loss across Northern Ireland (NI), Ayrshire & Arran, part of Highlands & Islands in Western Scotland (WSc) and the Border Counties of Ireland (BCI). NTT is a partnership between RNIB (in NI and WSc) and Fighting Blindness (FB) in BCI. Together we will deliver a comprehensive package of emotional support to people living with sight loss. People with sight loss experience a significant number of challenges that can prevent them from contributing as fully integrated, independent members of society. These challenges include the day-to-day practical ones of being able to safely go about activities of life and the emotional ones of coming to terms with a life changing condition. This community experiences increased social isolation; higher levels of depression and anxiety and a lower quality of life. NTT will directly contribute to the desired outputs of the Disability Services output indicator by delivering two cross border interventions to support socially isolated people with sight loss: Emotional support and counselling service; Confidence Building Programmes. Through these initiatives, we will support 1628 socially isolated people with sight loss across the NTT area.

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