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"Anawim’s mission statement is to support women and their children, especially women vulnerable to exploitation including prostitution. It seeks to provide wider positive choices to help them achieve their goals and reach their full potential as part of the wider community. To this end Anawim treats everyone with dignity and respect, recognising that every woman and child matters as an individual. Anawim seeks to work with partners and other agencies to challenge that which degrades and diminishes. In April 2012, Anawim started a pilot project in partnership with the Department of Health by creating a Mental Health Alternatives to Custody Project. The Preliminary Evaluation Report on the Anawim Mental Health Alternatives to Custody Pilot Project is attached."
Reply To: Women, homelessness and the criminal justice system

"Anawim’s mission statement is to support women and their children, especially women vulnerable to exploitation including prostitution. It seeks to provide wider positive choices to help them achieve their goals and reach their full potential as part of the wider community. To this end Anawim treats everyone with dignity and respect, recognising that every woman and child matters as an individual. Anawim seeks to work with partners and other agencies to challenge that which degrades and diminishes. In April 2012, Anawim started a pilot project in partnership with the Department of Health by creating a Mental Health Alternatives to Custody Project. The Preliminary Evaluation Report on the Anawim Mental Health Alternatives to Custody Pilot Project is attached."
Reply To: Mental health and wellbeing

"Anawim’s mission statement is to support women and their children, especially women vulnerable to exploitation including prostitution. It seeks to provide wider positive choices to help them achieve their goals and reach their full potential as part of the wider community. To this end Anawim treats everyone with dignity and respect, recognising that every woman and child matters as an individual. Anawim seeks to work with partners and other agencies to challenge that which degrades and diminishes. In April 2012, Anawim started a pilot project in partnership with the Department of Health by creating a Mental Health Alternatives to Custody Project. The Preliminary Evaluation Report on the Anawim Mental Health Alternatives to Custody Pilot Project is attached."
Reply To: Women involved in prostitution*

"The Anawim Project works with vulnerable women across Birmingham, including women engaged in and around prostitution, drug addictions and domestic violence. Anawim staff go to where the women are: on the streets of Birmingham, in Eastwood Park, Drake Hall and other women’s prisons, in court and in Bail hostels. By reaching out in friendship to all women who are trapped in prostitution or offending, and offering support and counselling to those expressing a wish to leave the lifestyle, Anawim seeks to provide vulnerable women with positive choices to help them achieve their goals and reach their full potential as part of the wider community. For more information see: http://www.anawim.co.uk/ See attached two case studies from women who accessed our services."
Reply To: Skills and Employment

"Anawim women's centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, is a day centre for vulnerable women. It acts as a one-stop shop for women with multiple needs such as substance misuse, poverty, homelessness and domestic violence. Anawim offers women offenders community sentences which offer high levels of support to break the cycles of re-offending and act as an alternative to custody. A range of different agencies come into the centre and Probation staff are co-located reducing the need for women to attend appointments at other locations around the city. The centre provides food, clothes, social activities, educational classes and a crèche for children whilst the women engage. http://www.womensbreakout.org.uk/projects/anawim/ To view full document please see below together with case history."
Reply To: Women, homelessness and the criminal justice system