Befriending Service (East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action)

Service provision

The primary aim of befriending is to enhance the quality of a befriendee’s life by offering them the opportunity to form a trusting relationship. “More specifically, services aim to enable their befriendee’s to:

• become less socially isolated
• develop their self-confidence and emotional growth
• increase their capacity to use personal resources
• enhance their skills for forming and maintaining relationships with others
• develop greater resilience
• improve their well-being
• feel supported by someone who is consistent and reliable
• experience some purely social interaction on a regular basis (i.e. not simply as a by-product of receiving another service)

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