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NAWP's mental health and client support project provides clients who experience mental or emotional distress with a complete and individualised package of care.
The programme employs a full-time trained psychotherapist who liaises closely with local community mental health teams and provides strong advocacy for the unique and special care of her clients. The support group meets once a week and counselling service are also available.
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 So it was sort of like taking control of yourself, like you think okay if everyone else can hurt me then at least I can hurt myself more than they can.....when you cut yourself, you can control that because you can decide how deep, how much, how many, how often..  Service user.
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23% of women who access our mental health support services approach NAWP directly as self-referrals.
56% of referrals originate from the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), GPs or other statutory service providers.
44% of women who access NAWP mental health support and befriending services are between the ages of 16-30 years, while 38% are between 31-45 years of age.
36% of women are married, 28% are divorced or separated and 23% of women are single.
Of the 39 women who used our services, 15 women suffered depression, 13 felt socially isolated, 16 expressed extreme anxiety, neglect or suicidal thoughts or behaviours, 9 suffered mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, 8 were the result of domestic violence, 6 were subjected to sexual or emotional abuse and 10 women were classified under a miscellaneous category of varying mental health problems.
The most common first language was Urdu, followed by Punjabi, then Gujarati and Bengali.
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