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.
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.
The Women’s Services Map website, launched in September 2023, is the UK’s first directory of women’s centres and specialist services for women and girls in contact with the criminal justice system.
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Users to this website can search for their local women’s centres and services by using an interactive map, postcode search or by filtering services by organisation or specialism. Comprehensive contact details for all featured organisations, as well as guidance and instructions for how to make direct referrals and self-referrals to services, are also listed in centre pages and individual service listings.
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Users can also find information about organisations and projects that deliver services and support direct to women in each of the UK’s twelve women’s prisons.
Updated November 2024