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Women's Mental Health Facts

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Building a mentally healthier nation for women and girls

WEBLast September, Centre for Mental Health, alongside Agenda Alliance and over 30 organisations, launched A Mentally Healthier Nation: a 10-year cross …

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The Mental Health Act: the impact of poverty and domestic abuse

WEBThe cost-of-living crisis has particularly impacted the mental health of women and girls, especially for those also experiencing domestic abuse. Our research during …

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Women's Mental Health Driven To Top of the Agenda

WEB19 Dec 2018. Women's mental health will be driven to the top of the agenda as the Government today outlines key principles for better gender and trauma-informed care. …

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The Importance of Gender-Specific Mental Health Services

WEBAlthough mental health problems affect one in four of us, and roughly the same numbers of men as women, there are differences in how problems develop and manifest …

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Women Side by Side

WEBThrough Women Side by Side, Agenda, in partnership with Mind, aimed to increase the availability of high-quality mental health peer support for women experiencing multiple …

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The Vital Role of the VCS in Gender-Specific Mental Health …

WEBHealth services need to be attuned to women’s mental health. Everyone in the health sector, particularly the NHS, needs to be aware that women’s mental health, trauma …

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Agenda Responds to the Government's 'Women's Health Strategy'

WEBMental health is a serious and growing concern for women and girls. Agenda’s Struggling Alone briefing paper highlighted that over a quarter of young …

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Keeping Women in Mind on World Mental Health Day

WEBThe best practice guidance reflects this, calling for gender specific mental health support which recognises how women’s different issues can interrelate. Our …

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New Resource on Trauma-Informed Care For Women

WEBThe Women’s Mental Health Taskforce was formed in 2017 and is based at the Department of Health and Social Care. It identified priorities for women’s mental …

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Mental Health Services Failing To Ask Women About Domestic …

WEBMental health services should be asking about domestic abuse in recognition of the high rates of violence and abuse experienced by people who access …

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The Mental Health Act: the impact of age and race

WEBBlack, Asian, minoritised and migratised women and girls face more severe negative consequences when interacting with mental health support. Shockingly, our …

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Underexamined and Underreported

WEBProjects and Campaigns. Underexamined and Underreported provides new analysis on the link between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicidality, and the ways in which this …

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Women in Mind: briefing on women’s mental health

WEB1. The development of a national women’s mental health strategy. 2. Every mental health trust having a clinical lead for women’s mental health and a women’s mental health …

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Harm Caused By Lack of Specialist Support For Young Women …

WEBA ground-breaking new report, published on 10 November, by the charity Agenda Alliance exposes the real-life impact of lack of specialist support for young …

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New Figures Reveal Link Between Suicidal Thoughts and Domestic …

WEBJess Southgate, Deputy CEO of Agenda Alliance: "It is shameful that the clear link between domestic abuse and suicidal feelings amongst women has not …

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Agenda Briefing: Women and girls who are homeless

WEBwith higher levels of poor mental health than men who are homeless, and often extensive experiences of physical and sexual violence and abuse. Yet most homelessness …

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Multiple Disadvantage in Greater Manchester

WEBTackling Women’s Multiple Disadvantage in Greater Manchester highlights that around 60,000 women and girls in Greater Manchester have experienced extensive violence …

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New Data Shows Black and Minoritised Girls More Than Twice as …

WEBNew data uncovered by Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk through an FOI request from Department of Education shows that Black and minoritised girls are …

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