We offer individual support to girls with a wide range of needs.
There are three different types of support on offer, complex needs support with Womens’ Lives Leeds, practical support with Inspiring Futures and support around young women and safety with Safe Space.
Our Complex Needs Worker (Young Women) provides specialist, intensive support for young women aged 13 – 25. For young women to access the service, they must have at least five complex needs that are not addressed by any other service.
We provide weekly or bi-weekly sessions for young women (dependent on their needs) for approximately an hour each time. The sessions are intervention based, emotionally supportive meetings, created around a support plan that the young woman and our Complex Needs Worker develop together. They are personally tailored according to the young woman’s individual needs and circumstances.
We offer practical support based on the young womens’ basic needs, to help young women find stability in their lives, including:
● Finding somewhere safe to stay
● Barriers faced by young women such as domestic abuse
● Help with food and accessing food banks
● Managing money and debt
● Applying for jobs or training
● Support accessing benefits and housing systems
We offer support to young women aged 11 – 18 at risk of sexual exploitation to help raise awareness of risks of CSE, find ways of keeping themselves safe and help them to build confidence and raise aspirations.
We offer peer support groups where young women with lived experience can support each other in a safe, creative space.
Some examples include Proud to be mums group, She writes creative writing group, Sisters- Eritrean/ Ethiopian young women’s group.
For more information about peer support groups get intouch.
Our youth work offer includes weekly groups, holiday schemes, residentials (overnight trips away) and other opportunities for girls and young women aged 8-18.
We are proud to offer 8-week leadership programmes for young women aged 15-18 and ongoing opportunities around campaigning, voice and influence. Our designated voice and influence network, Vocal Girls, is available to young women aged 15-18, meeting weekly.
Safe Space targeted support includes individual support and prevention/early intervention groups for young women re risk taking, safety and exploitation. We offer support to young women aged 1 –18 at risk of sexual exploitation to help raise awareness of risks of CSE, find ways of keeping themselves safe and help them to build confidence and raise aspirations.
Targeted Schools programmes run for 6/8 or 10 weeks, including our long-running Girls Talk programme.
We offer Revive therapeutic groups for young women aged 16-18 in sixth forms and colleges, and 18-25 at Getaway Girls. Alongside this, we offer counselling support -12 weeks, for young women who are accessing Getaway Girls.
