Black Country Women’s Aid provide a range of services for women such as domestic abuse refuge and community support; rape; sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse support; Forced Marriage and honour-based violence support; and support for female offenders and women with complex needs. They also offer specialists counselling for children who are victims of sexual violence. CHISVA (Children's Independent Sexual Violence Advice) service supports children ages 5 - 18 years in Sandwell and the wider Black Country who have experienced rape or sexual violence. They provide practical and emotional support, including support through the criminal justice system. Referrals are via agencies such as the police, social services, sexual assault referral centres, GPs, schools, parents and self-referrals. Brook Web: https://www.brook.org.uk/outreach-and-education/sandwell/ C T A Free and confidential sexual health service for young people under the age of 25, we provide advice, condoms and relationship counselling, we signpost to STI testing and contraception. We provide a 1-to-1 service to referred young people who will benefit from our education and well- being sessions. Sessions can also be run within schools.
Brotherhood 0121 530 8451
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Open: 9 am – 7 pm, Mon to Fri Email: brotherhood@poweredbycan.org Web: www.poweredbycan.org/
Brotherhood is a dedicated community to supporting young black males in Sandwell between the ages of 10-19 years old. We provide bespoke 1-1 and group mentoring for young people both within and outside the school environment. We also offer extra curriculum evening sessions in West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Smethwick and Oldbury locations. These include facilitating activities to support our young people with developing their commitment, challenge, control and confidence to help build resilience, supporting emotional wellbeing and prepare them for the next stages of their lives. CAMHS Crisis Interventional and Home Treatment Team (CIHTT) 07816 075 218 C Open: 8 am – 8 pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year Web: https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/our-services/camhs-crisis-interventional- and-home-treatment-team-cihtt The Crisis Intervention & Home Treatment Team is for young people already known to CAMHS. It aims to provide a timely service, enabling them to respond both quickly and intensively to children, young people and their families and/or carers. The service is for children and young people up to age 18 in Sandwell and Wolverhampton. They offer specialist services to those children and young people whose mental health is having an impact on their daily functioning (usually due to risk and / or severity of mental illness) and who require urgent intervention. The overall aim of the team is to reduce the frequency of admissions into a Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit, keeping children and young people at home with their families, where they can receive a specialist intensive CAMHS support.
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