All women deserve to be safe
ADULT SERVICES
Horizon is A Way Out's umbrella of services that ensures adults receive support to overcome the causes and consequences of the abuse, harm and exploitation that they experience. This includes compassion and solution focues, gender and trauma informed, one to one and group interventions, combined with outreach and advocacy as well as specialist therapeutic support.
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Horizon Services include:
supports women who are at risk or have experienced multiple disadvantages (including addiction, homelessness and mental ill health), are socially isolated, involved in street sex work and fear the consequences of accessing support (criminalisation, repercussions from perpetrators, having children removed into care or being stigmatised). Through advocacy, proactive outreach and therapy women are empowered to address the abuse, harm and exploitation they experience.
(Adult Sexual Exploitation Partnership) supports women who have been groomed by individuals or groups of men for sexual exploitation and consequently experience multiple challenges including mental ill health, substance misuse and breakdown of support networks to address the abuse, harm and exploitation experienced. The ASE Partnership is led by Changing Lives, includes eight other organisations across the North and undertakes research into survivor experiences to influence policy and practice as well as providing targeted support.
supports adult women in the criminal justice system as they transition from the prison gates to the community, (recognising that pathways into offending for women are often different to that of men because of the abuse, harm and exploitation they experience and the wider power dynamics within society), to move past previous offending and build a stronger future for themselves and their families. Phoenix Women is delivered as part of the Ministry of Justice women’s services contract in the Teesside and is led by Changing Lives.
Updated November 2024