Blog Article | 18 August 2016

Survivors Manchester join UK SAYS NO MORE

We’re incredibly pleased to announce our friends in Manchester have joined our campaign to end domestic violence and sexual assault.

Survivors Manchester join UK SAYS NO MORE

Survivors Manchester aims to create and facilitate a safe space for male survivors of sexual abuse and rape to work through personal and sometimes painful issues.

Mission Statement:

To break the silence of the sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation of boys and men in order to empower those affected to defeat the legacy of abuse to move towards positive futures.

Organisation Aims:

  1. To promote and protect the good health of male survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation; alongside those affected by male sexual violation; across Greater Manchester and throughout England & Wales.
  2. To provide evidence based therapeutic support services to male survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation; alongside those affected by male sexual violation; across Greater Manchester and throughout England & Wales.
  3. To provide qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, specialist and general support workers to support and advise male survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation; ; alongside those affected by male sexual violation; across Greater Manchester and throughout England & Wales; on how to cope with and move beyond their unwanted sexual experiences.
  4. To provide education, training and awareness raising campaigns around the issue of the sexual abuse and violation of males of all ages and backgrounds, whilst continuing to learn from our work and respond effectively to new knowledge and identified needs.

Face to Face Support: 

Healing Steps

Our ‘Healing Steps’ service enables individuals to meet on a one-to-one basis with one of our team and work through some issues, learn some skills and set some goals to better living.

The Safe Room

The Safe Room is peer support group, with a therapeutic facilitated base, for adult male survivors of sexual abuse and rape that enables members to work together, grow together and heal together.

‘Breaking the Silence’ Counselling/Psychotherapy Service

Our ‘Breaking the Silence’ therapy service provides individuals with qualified therapists, delivering evidence based therapy that aims to help create significant change and improve the mental health of clients.

EMDR

As part of our overall counselling and psychotherapy offer, we can provide EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) as either part of the therapy or as a separate treatment for those with PTSD.

Art Therapy

In order for us to offer the widest possible array of support options, we have listened to you and are delighted to be able to offer a small art therapy service.

Psychotherapy Group

Therapy doesn’t just happen in a 1:1 setting, here at Survivors Manchester it also happens in groups. Throughout the year, we offer a limited number of group therapy starting times.

 

To learn more about the support available from Survivors Manchester, please visit their website

 

Interested in becoming a partner of UK SAYS NO MORE?

We’d love to hear from you, please get in touch with Lyndsey Dearlove, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Partnership Manager.

You can contact Lyndsey by email at Lyndsey.Dearlove@hestia.org or by phone at 020 7378 3170.

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