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Complex Needs -
Tailored support for women facing multiple challenges
Providing tailored support for women with complex needs, specialising in women from diverse communities. We create support plans to assist women in addressing the issues they are facing - including benefit issues, welfare rights, mental health, housing, substance use, and legal issues such as immigration and divorce.
AREAS WE SUPPORT
Supporting women facing complex,
multiple challenges.
Women's Lives Leeds at Shantona works with women whose lives are affected by several interconnected issues at once.
We create individual support plans to help women navigate these challenges - working across the following areas and more.
Benefit issues
Welfare rights
Mental health
Housing
Substance use
Immigration & divorce
WHAT WE PROVIDE
How Women's Lives Leeds supports you
Our support covers a wide range - from individual 1:1 sessions to group work, outreach and specialist school programmes.
1:1 weekly support
Regular 1:1 sessions – two hours per week – at a time and venue that suits you. Your support worker comes to you, wherever you feel most comfortable.
Practical and emotional support
Hands-on help with the practical challenges you’re facing, alongside emotional support to help you feel heard, understood and less alone.
Signposting to relevant services
Connecting you with the specialist services, agencies and resources that can best address the specific challenges in your support plan.
Accompanying clients to meetings
Your worker can accompany you to appointments, meetings and court proceedings – so you never have to face important moments alone.
WHAT WE HELP YOU ACHIEVE
Five outcomes at the heart of Women's Lives Leeds
Everything we do is focused on helping women move forward with confidence, safety and optimism.
Improved self-confidence
Building belief in yourself and your ability to take control of your own life.
Empowered to make positive choices
Developing the knowledge, confidence and support to make choices that are right for you
Feeling safe and creating a safe living environment
Working towards a home and life free from fear – where you feel secure and supported.
Feeling optimistic about the future
Moving beyond immediate crises to a place where the future feels possible and hopeful.
HOW TO ACCESS THIS SERVICE
Referred through our network of partner organisations
Access to Women's Lives Leeds at Shantona is via referral from one of our partner organisations.
To make a referral, the client must already be accessing support or group work from one of the following partners.
To make a referral to the Complex Needs Service, the client needs to be accessing support or group work from one of the partner organizations listed below. If you are currently supported by one of these organizations, they can make a referral on your behalf.
Shantona Women’s Centre
Women’s Health Matters
Asha Neighbourhood Project
Women’s Counselling & Therapy Service
Basis Yorkshire
SARSVL
Together Women
Behind Closed Doors
Getaway Girls
Nari Ekta
Leeds Women’s Aid
Joanna Project
