Mental Health

The Horsfall 42nd Street are providing Creative training: Using creative approaches with a trauma-informed lens, with free spots for grassroots organisations in Manchester (provided in partnership with Making Manchester Fairer, to support health equity).

In this hands-on training, attendees will learn how to:

Following on from the huge success of a pilot training session – An Introduction to Trauma and Links to Food Insecurity in May, the Our Manchester Food Partnership Team are delivering further sessions in September.

Three free additional training sessions are being delivered across the City at venues in north, south and central. Lunch be provided at all venues.

The training is both informative and helpful, and it will give you an understanding of some of the possible root causes and links between childhood experiences and food insecurity.

Each year in England and Wales half a million children are sexually abused and 900,000 people experience rape and sexual assault – yet the specialist services supporting survivors are facing closure.

Three of the UK’s leading sexual violence charities are warning the Home Secretary that without urgent, sustainable funding, tens of thousands of survivors will be left with nowhere to turn. 

The next stage of the Mayor of Greater Manchester’s #IsThisOK? campaign to tackle gender-based violence has been launched. Named #IsThisOK?: It’s Not A Game, Boy, the campaign aims to raise awareness of coercive and controlling behaviour.

A hard-hitting film has been released, commissioned by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) with local actors, and featuring a young female who experiences escalating levels of coercive and controlling behaviour from her boyfriend.