A few words about
Our Projects
Our projects
We are here to advocate with refugee and migrant women in the West Midlands, create information and inspire change in partnership with others.
Community advocates and interpreters provide advise and information to undocumented migrants, asylum seekers as well as newly settled refugees and migrants.
They connect women to organisations that can assist if we cannot. Our main areas of casework are legal, health housing and money support.
Our policy influencing uses recent examples of situations women face from our casework, to document and suggest recommendations for change. This informs and improves practice of policy makers.
Our influencing team, led by and involving experts through experience work with partners to shine a light on policies in practice.
We have a Community Research partnership with CIRC (Community Interest Research Centre), Birmingham University, IRiS, Brushstrokes, PLSF, Women’s Wellbeing, AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group and Maokwo.
Researchers gain new skills, and play a crucial role in project teams across all aspects of integration.
Psychotherapy, Counselling, and Life Coaching sessions are offered by qualified therapists on a limited basis to women we assist. Advocates get self-care funds to relieve vicarious trauma.
We have produced a well-being toolkit which women accessing help are encouraged to use.
We regularly connect women to external talking therapy support from partner organisations.
We connect destitute women directly to charities that provide accommodation and subsistence funds to forced migrants, and women with NRPF who experience domestic abuse.
Partners include Hope Projects, Fatima House, Coventry Night Shelter and Coventry Migrant Womens Houses (CMWH) and BCU Law Clinic. Our partners rely on us to refer to them and casework with women to help them administrate legal cases and move out of destitution.
Our services are governed and delivered by a majority of women from the communities we assist. Our influencer group brings women together in solidarity to raise their voices to encourage positive social change. Past actions have created film and books.
We connect to the Women with Hope group, often encouraging women to access sessions for social activities, to feel supported and make friends.