Services for Refugee Women in Hull: Support and Resources Overview

Various organizations in Hull provide essential services for refugee women, including family tracing, mental health support, counseling, youth engagement projects, and general advice on housing, employment, and welfare. These services aim to assist refugee women in rebuilding their lives and facilitating their integration into the community.

• Refugee Women
• Hull Services
• Support Organizations
• Mental Health Support
• Community Engagement

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1. Jayne Mercer 24thNovember 2015

2. Provide you with information about services working with refugee women:- What services they provide How these services might be useful How to access the services Contact details

3. Helps people fleeing war, conflict, mass migration and natural disaster to locate family members Family Travel Assistance for refugee family members Red Cross messages Welfare messages Attestation of detention Contact: Laura Wilson LauraWilson@redcross.org.uk 07595 411 522 / 07799 664 508

4. Provides information and advice to asylum seekers, refugees and EU migrants Food vouchers for destitute refused asylum seekers Thursday mornings at Open Doors from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Multicultural volunteers with a range of language skills Contact: Jayne Mercer Jmercer@redcross.org.uk 07734132448

5. Provides counselling/psychotherapy Youth engagement project to support refugee children Builds trust with traumatised refugees and their families Builds bridges between refugees and services to facilitate engagement Contact: haven@goodwintrust.org Tel: 01482 325422 Website: http://www.havenproject- hull.org.uk/

6. Community umbrella organisation Victim support Race equality in BME mental health acting as facilitators for access to mental health services Hate Crime reporting centre Contact: info@hanaonline.org.uk Tel: 01482 491177 Website: http://hanaonline.co.uk/

7. Information, advice and guidance to minority ethnic communities in Hull Advice provided on housing, employment, health and welfare and community involvement Three weekly advice sessions (Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11:00am to 1:00pm ) Contact: info.hcas@gmail.com Tel: 01482 236460

8. Generalist and immigration drop in sessions on a Monday 1:30 to 4:00 pm English classes (Women only Friday morning) Safe Spaces (in partnership with Haven Project) HARP supporting access to health services Job Club on a Wednesday Contact: ARKH@nrcentre.org.uk Tel: 01482 214178 Websites: http://www.nrcentre.org.uk/ http://arkh-hull.com/

9. Based at Princes Avenue Methodist Church Thursday: social, food parcels, lunch, advice, Volunteer Interpretation and Translation Service IT, job search, music, allotment, English Contact: opendoorshull@live.co.uk Tel: 01482 345132 Website: http://opendoors-hull.org.uk/

10. In Hull, they only give support to clients arriving through the Gateway Protection Programme Work in partnership with many other organisations to give 12 months support and advice in employment, education, volunteering, housing, budgeting & finance, community development, health, legal processes, etc. Support 90 people each year Based in Centre 88, contact 01482 421120 Contact: christine.hannington@RefugeeCouncil.org.uk

11. Accommodation provider under contract with G4S on behalf of Home Office Asylum support accommodation is provided fully furnished. Cots, bedding, steriliser and high chair provided Applications for additional payments are made by support workers to Home Office Contact: admin@targethull.org.uk Tel: 01482 594950 Website: http://www.targethousing.org.uk/

12. To discuss further my contact details are: Email: JMercer@redcross.org.uk Mobile: 07734 132 448