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The Young Women's Outreach Project was established in 1992 to provide a specialist service to young women aged 11 to 19 years across in the North East of England. We work with young women and young mothers supporting and guiding them through crises in their lives. These crises can be finding out that they are pregnant, problems or struggling in schools, mental health issues, rape, self harm, lack of confidence and self belief, violence or sexual exploitation, the list goes on and on. Many young women and mothers are referred into the project by a vast range of professionals, such as social workers, teachers, emotional well-being and family intervention teams. Young women often refer themselves or ring in when they feel they are in crisis or need support through a particular issue. Once we receive a referral we then visit the young woman to assess needs and to ensure that we are the right people to support her. We are often involved with safeguarding and we ensure our role is about sup

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