Our Projects
YASP
Links
Adivice/Advocacy | Asylum seekers and refugees | Crisis | Drugs and alchol | Employment | Eating disorders | Ethnic minorities | Health | Housing | Gay and Lesbein | General
Here are few links we think you might find useful :)
African & Caribbean Mental Health Services
Provides a range of services including advice, advocacy, self-help groups, drop-ins, training, employment opportunities, and counselling.
AWAAZ
Service for Asian people who need an independent advocacy service. AWAAZ also run drop-ins and provide advice and support.
Body Positive North West
Provides advice, advocacy-befriending, drop in, meals at subsidised rates, helpline, user groups, therapy/treatment, welfare rights and counselling for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
CAFCASS
Looks after the interests of Children involved in family proceedings.
Irish Community Centre
The Irish Youth Project offers advice, information and advocacy on health, housing, employment, benefits, volunteering and culture.
Manchester Advice
Manchester Advice is the City Council's integrated advice service. It gives advice on benefits and Tax Credits, debt, housing, consumer issues, council services and basic immigration information.
Manchester Refuge Support Network
Refuge led organisation offering advice and support to refuges and Asylum seekers in Greater Manchester.
The Sahara Project
Dedicated resource focused on the health and well being of refugees and asylum seeker communities living in north Manchester. The project aims to inform, support and develop links between refugees and asylum seeking communities and mental health related services.
Refuge Action
Gives practical support and advice to newly arrived Asylum seekers and promotes their rights in the UK and abroad.
Crisis Point
Crisis Point is a mental health crisis support centre where people can manage or resolve their crisis and develop strategies to prevent or better manage such crises in the future. We offer a range of services including: short term accommodation, advice and information.
Samaritans
You can speak to us in total confidence about anything that is troubling you.
Talk to Frank
Advice about drugs.
Smithfield Project
Advice, information and support on alcohol, drugs and mental health problems.
New Start Trust
A safe and totally confidential service for anyone affected by illicit drug use, the individual, their families/partners and our communities.
Lifeline Project
Our purpose is to relieve poverty, sickness and distress among those persons affected by addiction to drugs of any kind, and to educate the public on matters relating to drug misuse.
New Start Trust
A crime prevention project specialising in substance misuse. The aim of our charity is to offer a safe and totally confidential service to anyone affected by illicit drug use, the individual, their families/partners and our communities.
Works 4 Me
A site run by the equal opportunities commission about gender and employment.
Connexions
Are you 13-19? If so, Connexions Direct can offer you all the information and advice you need to make the decisions and choices in your life and set your future career.
beat
Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders, including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, binge eating disorder and related eating disorders. Beat is the UK's leading eating disorder charity. We believe that eating disorders will be beaten.
Chorlton Eating Disorders Group
Self Help Services is a user-led voluntary organisation that co-ordinates self-help support groups and other self-help initiatives for people experiencing mental-ill health, discrimination, social exclusion and/or emotional problems.
North West Eating Disorders Service
Information on counselling for eating disorders for anyone from 16 to 65 yr olds.
Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating.
African & Caribbean Mental Health Services
Provides a range of services including advice, advocacy, self-help groups, drop-ins, training/employment opportunities and counselling.
AWASS
Provides a range of services, including advice and support on health care, education, training and employment to support Asian people in Manchester.
Irish Community Care
Offers advice, information and advocacy on health, housing, employment, benefits, volunteering and culture for Irish people in Manchester.
Wai Yin
Services include a wide range of employment, education and community services for both men and women in the Chinese communities including the Kwan Wai (mental heath) Project. The youth project is open for all young people aged between 16 – 25 in Manchester and the surrounding areas.
MASH
MASH is sexual health promotion / HIV prevention organisation for
sex workers and drug users in Greater Manchester which aims to enhance
the sexual health of the client group through the provision of a
targeted night time service.
PUSH ( People Understanding Self Harm)
We are a self-help support group providing a safe space for people experiencing issues with self-harm to meet and talk together in a mutually supportive atmosphere. PUSH offers a non-judgemental space for people to discuss life experiences and to exchange advice.
Brook
The only national voluntary sector provider of free and confidential sexual health advice and services specifically for young people under 25.
The DePaul Trust
Offers homeless and disadvantaged people the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Manchester Home Finder
Website helping you find a home in Manchester, run by Manchester City Council.
Offers Support to people aged 16 to 25, especially those
in situations of homelessness, in moving towards independent living. They have
a café which is open every weekday morning Phone:0161 228 7655
Albert Kennedy Trust
Works to ensure that all lesbian, gay and bisexual young people are able to live in accepting, supportive and caring homes. They can provide information, advice and mentoring.
Lesbian & Gay Foundation
Supports lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the North West through a helpline and a wide range of services including counselling, sexual health. They are open for people to pop-in informally. (You can read LGF's magazine 'Out Northwest' in the YASP Café)
Need 2 Know
A web site that aims to provide young people with some of the most useful web site links available.
The Site
A website aimed at young people, with information on everything from money issues, the law, relationships, health and many more topics
42nd Street
Provides support services to young people experiencing stress and mental health problems.
If you run any of these websites and feel that any of the info is incorrect, please contact us and let us know.
