Luton All Women's Centre
Mental wellbeing
We will offer support groups for women whose mental health has suffered due to experiences of abuse – one focused on improving lifetime wellbeing and another providing targeted help around anxiety.
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About this cause
Luton All Women’s Centre empowers vulnerable women/girls from Luton, Bedfordshire to lead lives that are safer, healthier and fairer, while also taking action to challenge wider societal concerns around gendered violence, mental health and inequality. We work intensively with over 1100 clients per year, most of whom have experiences of domestic violence/abuse or similar trauma (e.g. harmful practices, historic child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation). All are dealing with severe impacts of trauma, particularly around their mental health, safety, confidence and future prospects. As well as providing specialist services which support clients throughout their recovery and help them achieve long-term positive change, we work with partners to improve preventative approaches in our community.
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How this cause brings people in the community together
Our project will ensure some of the most vulnerable women in our community get the support they need at what is often the most difficult time in their lives. Having experienced abuse, most of these women suffer from poor mental health (e.g. high levels of anxiety, depression, PTSD and self-harming behaviours) plus other problems such as social isolation, poverty, low confidence and difficulties in progressing opportunities such as education or employment. In this post-pandemic and high cost-of-living climate, demand for our support has rocketed. By offering a rolling programme of Wellbeing and Anxiety Groups, we will help women make improvements in their mental health, feel safer/better protected, improve their support network and initiate practical changes that will enable them to thrive.