Platform 50

Free and accessible one-to-one coaching and mentoring support for up to 50 women aged 16-25, using female volunteer coaches and mentors from the local community. Empowering women to reduce anxiety, raise self-esteem and confidence, and make good choices that impact their mental and physical health in the in the long term. Supports the early intervention agenda.

Platform 50 offers women aged 16-25 access to coaching and mentoring support to empower them to reduce feelings of isolation and anxiety, which undermine mental health, and pursue a course of action that has sustainable long-term benefits for their health and wellbeing.

The coaches and mentors are volunteers from the local community and receive training in coaching, mentoring, and mental health awareness. They also receive ongoing development and coaching supervision.

The service is immediately accessible, free, and open-ended; there is no time limit to receiving help. There is no waiting list and no exclusions.

Each coach/mentor works with one young woman at a time. This means that targeted, gender-specific support can be offered to meet individual needs.

Platform 50 is already making a difference for women in the community in the following ways:. It is immediately accessible and can reduce the risks of not accessing support at the point of need, minimising the deterioration of presenting concerns. It supports one of the city's most vulnerable groups. It is deploying and upskilling volunteers from the local community. It has supported young women into work, study, and a more secure economic situation, as well as addressing health and well-being concerns. It uses coaching and mentoring, both proven techniques to increase self-esteem and decision-making.

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