M13

M13 is a youth project that works together with children, young people and young parents, aged 0-25, to create spaces of safety, community and hope. They use innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed processes to foster fun, learning, action and change that helps young people’s physical, social and emotional safety and mental well-being.

Importantly, M13 work in the community with young people through street-based outreach (detached work) – whether that’s by shops, on benches or in McDonalds. Through listening and conversation, M13 builds trusting relationships with young people so that they can co-design activities, projects and services that help and interest them – for example, pop-up youth clubs, trips and residentials, campaigning and social action projects.

We have awarded M13 with a three-year grant totalling, £90,000 to fund “The Sistering Project”. The Sistering Project offers safety, welcome, listening and mental health support to young women who are experiencing poor mental health and live in extremely deprived inner-city neighbourhoods in central Manchester. The Sistering Project is staffed by community-rooted, female, qualified youth workers and counsellors. They are regularly available via weekly Young Women’s Sistering Group and offer meet ups, practical help and accompanying to specialist services. The project supports young women experiencing increasingly entrenched mental health difficulties to engage in therapeutic conversations and activities. Importantly, they focus on giving young women holistic and practical support on wider issues and for young women to have fun in a trauma-informed space of safety with their peers.

M13 is part of the first cohort of the Young Women’s Mental Health programme, where we’ve committed £5 million over 5 years to improve the mental health of young women aged 16-25 years old.

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