SAY Women offers safe semi-supported accommodation and emotional support for young women aged 16 to 25 who are survivors of sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault and who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness.
Contact us here if you feel you need our help, or if you are from another agency who would like to refer a young woman to us.
Our Services
Accommodation
Our Accommodation Project provides semi-supported residence to young women, along with practical and emotional support, working towards moving in to their own tenancy.
Resource Service
At our office on Bell Street, we offer ongoing support for our young women, with emotional and mental health difficulties, as well as group work, events, activities and help with practical issues. We also provide tenancy sustainment support.
Tenancy Sustainment For Survivors (TS4S)
Our Tenancy Sustainment Service is now up and running in conjunction with Renfrewshire Youth Housing and Homelessness Service. For more details see the ‘Our Services’ page or click the button for the flyer.
National Training
We provide training to other agencies and individuals who come into contact with survivors of sexual violence, to enhance and improve the quality of services available, and to embed tenancy sustainment.
Donations and Fundraising for us:
If you would like to make a donation or start fundraising for us, click on a button below for our Just Giving page. Every penny goes direct to helping our young women.
Thank you!
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Case Study
We have been providing support to a young woman from China since January 2019. She was extremely withdrawn, anxious and lonely, and didn’t leave the accommodation for a long time. She had to learn the basics of living in Scotland, such as basic English, telling the time and how to access travel routes and shops.
She is now going to college, can say some sentences in English and is very confident in going out on her own. She has made a friend who she regularly socialises with. The young woman is feeling emotionally and physically safer in her environment and herself. She has come on so far.
Case Study
We were supporting a young woman for approximately a year. She had experienced horrific abuse and as a result struggled to maintain positive relationships and engage with support. She lacked her own self care.
For some time the young woman worked on how to build relationships. She linked in with support and took time to look after herself. She has moved on to her own Tenancy, something she was unsure if she would be able to achieve. She is working part time and has reduced her medication.
She has told SAY Women that she feels like a different person and didn’t ever think she would feel so happy
within herself!
Third Floor, 30 Bell Street
Glasgow
G1 1LG
0141 552 5803
enquiries@say-women.co.uk