Young Women’s Housing Project

The purpose of this initiative is to identify at risk women and girls aged 10-19, and deliver specialist support/interventions which address their relationships with peers, intimate partners, dependent children, and parents.

The beneficiaries of this initiative will be young women and girls affected by or at risk of sexual abuse, domestic violence, or exploitation; LGBT+ young people; and teenage mothers and their children.

Interventions will include:

• Escape the Trap relationship programme
• Counselling, Concentrative Movement Therapy, and Art Therapy
• Parents As First Teachers parenting programmes

These interventions will aim to reduce participants’ risk of becoming victims/repeat victims, of becoming perpetrators, or taking part in offending behaviour; increase protective factors and reduce risk factors for young people and their children; and break cycles of abuse which could lead dependent children to becoming violent or becoming victims of violence.