From 2015 to 2022, CES worked with organisations funded through the National Lottery Community Fund in Northern Ireland’s Reaching Out, Supporting Families Programme.

CES’s role was to help the organisations to implement their projects, and to capture learning from the overall investment for the Fund. Over a period of seven years, we held training and networking activities, organised conferences and events to highlight good practice, and published reports and articles to capture learning for policy makers and service providers working with families.

Key resources:

The Reaching Out Supporting Families Programme: Final Outcomes Report

Infographic: Capturing Learning from the Reaching Out, Supporting Families Programme

Key messages from the interim report of the Reaching Out, Supporting Families Programme


Capturing the Learning:

[Capturing the Learning Paper 1 : Good family support in the community and voluntary sector](https://effectiveservices.notion.site/Capturing-the-Learning-Paper-1-Good-family-support-in-the-community-and-voluntary-sector-2f09c651b56b4c0fa5c91a1956d183ee)

[Capturing the Learning Paper 2: Partnership working in the community and voluntary sector](https://effectiveservices.notion.site/Capturing-the-Learning-Paper-2-Partnership-working-in-the-community-and-voluntary-sector-ada8222d7f1748acb5edf14db886a43d)

Capturing the Learning Paper 3: The Power of Trust and Relationship in Implementation


Conference Reports**:**

[Rethinking family support: Building connections to strengthen families Conference Report 2021](https://effectiveservices.notion.site/Rethinking-family-support-Building-connections-to-strengthen-families-Conference-Report-2021-f0661fd55a6d4dd08e57dde2ef7c0ff3)

Reaching Out, Supporting Families - The story so far