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Kelly’s Story

A Multi-Agency Approach

Many of the people we work with are engaging with multiple different services so we use a multi-agency approach to plan our support. In many cases, it is our community support and activities, alongside our approach of empowering people which is valuable in this joined-up working.

Kelly has a range of complex mental health needs. She firstly engaged through our workshops as she was socially isolated, but we provided her housing as she was about to be made homeless. She has complex mental health needs and is closely supported by a Care Co-ordinator and Psychologist.

Kelly has also suffered a significant physical injury, and we were able to adapt our support to her, in co-ordinating her recovery and rehabilitation in hospital and later with physiotherapists. We have thus been able to support her back into employment as a delivery driver.

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Testimonials

Handcrafted are brilliant! They work with those that we at Own My Life consider to be our “VIWs” (Very Important Women). For many women who have been most harmed it can be hard to trust organisations or seek support. Handcrafted create hope-filled, joyful spaces to enable women to own their lives. 

We love their open hearted support of women, their willingness to try new things, and the ways they meaningfully value our partnership to make the biggest difference to women’s lives

Natalie, Own My Life