Reaching Out Team
What do we do? | How to Contact Us | When are we open? | Useful Numbers | Statistics
We enable women to improve their personal, social and psychological well-being by working with them to address barriers.
What do we do?
If you live in Brighouse, Rastrick, Elland, Todmorden, Portsmouth, Cornholme,Walsden or West Central Halifax and would like a bit of extra support or help towards living a happier life, the Reaching Out Team may have something to offer you.
The Outreach Team comprises 3 Outreach Workers - including one BME worker,a tutor, a volunteer co-ordinator, children's workers and generic, mentoring and counselling volunteers.
The Reaching Out Team provides:
- Learning and development opportunities
- Mentoring to support learning and development
- Volunteering opportunities
- Counselling services
- Information on health and child care services
- Signposting to a wide variety of voluntary and statutory agencies
- One-to-one support in the woman's own home where necessary
- Beneficiary forums, consultation and information events
How to Contact Us
If you would like to speak to our Reaching Out Team, please call 01422 386 504 or email us atreachingout@womencentre.org.uk
When are we open?
We provide services in the locations listed in 'description of service' above. All team members work part-time. There are no set opening times. For more information please contact us (details above).
Requests for service can be made:
- by phone (answerphone on when there is no-one in the office) or
- by posting/faxing a request for service form to our main office base at Calderdale Women's Centre
Requests for service are accepted from women themselves, friends, relatives and from statutory, community and voluntary organisations (with the woman's consent).
Useful Numbers
We link to and work closely with many other agencies that also work in our service localities, for example:
- Health staff – including Health Trainers, Health Visitors, Midwives, Community Mental Health Teams
- Calderdale Council Departments/Teams – including Children's Centres, Sports and Physical Activity Workers, Community Engagement and Community Safety Officers, Schools, Housing Services, Social Workers, Learning Disability Teams, Sensory Impairment Team
- The Park Initiative, Queens Road Centre, SABAR Group, AWRA and other groups serving women from BME communities
- The Upper Valley Women's Group
- Voluntary organisations based in localities – for example Voluntary Action Calderdale, Calderdale Carers Project, Rastrick & Elland Churches Together, Careers, Advice and Advocacy services, Social Cars, Partnerships for Older People's Projects (POPPs) and many others
- Adult Education/Learning Centres
Statistics
We are funded by the Reaching Communities Grant of the Big Lottery Fund from Autumn 2007 - Autumn 2010.
Service provision started on April 8 2008. It is anticipated that around 20-25 women per month will be referred to our service. We aim to work with at least 500 women over the course of the three year Project:
- 150 women in 2008
- 250 women in 2009
- 100 women in 2010
We will produce regular monitoring and evaluation reports for the Big Lottery Fund. Please contact the Team Manager (Karen Arnold) for up to date monitoring and evaluation information.
We will use our knowledge of our localities and what women say they want and need to inform statutory agencies of gaps in service provision and to seek ongoing funding for aspects of our work that make a real difference to women's lives.
