Survivors West Yorkshire Newsroom

About Us

Survivors West Yorkshire (SWY) and its male-focused Ben's Place online trauma-informed video counselling and ISVA service is survivor-led and informed. Its vision is to support the development of a range of evidence-based services that are gender-informed and accessible across West Yorkshire. Services which are user-friendly and proactively involve survivors. Our aim is to create a specialist service which easily connects survivors and their supporters to professional services that work well for them. Our focus is on internet support whilst exploring and developing new off-line options for survivors. Our objective is via innovation and collaboration to support the self-empowerment of all survivors of sexual violence- abuse by developing robustly evaluated psychological interventions. Supported by self – help knowledge and social action involvement and best practice co-production projects which allow survivors to become an authentic expert resource to support policy and service improvements for themselves and others. Underpinning our service is an ethos of partnership - collaborative working across sectors to create collective impacts.

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