Services

If you live in Brent, Ealing or Harrow area, we can offer you free:

Job search support including CV and help with job application.

Together we can help you:

• Achieve and enhance your own personal set of goals;
• Dramatically improve your CV that sells you to an employer;

Get a work experience for you where you can make a real difference to lives.

General advice and assistance on housing and welfare benefits.

Together we can help you:

• Give you advice and casework, in homeless and housing/council benefits
• Advise welfare benefits, and to advise, signpost and refer appropriately to the right departments. 

Advise you in matters relating to Employment, Health and Community Care, Housing and Welfare Benefits, using Somali language.

Advocacy and general service to refugees and asylum seekers accessing Brent, Ealing and Harrow mental health services.

Together we can help you:

• Recommend for self help resources
• Refer you to the statutory psychiatric services, via your own GP
• Refer you to other services where indicated

Negotiate of a structured, time focussed care programme with specific goals and actions.

English classes and ESOL courses.

Together we can help you:

• Improve your English language
• Help you talk to GPs and your children’s teachers
• Understand the laws and customs of the UK
• Do a course and get a qualification
• Assist your child with homework

Pass the Life in the UK test and become a British citizen.

What does an ESOL course involve?

• Our ESOL courses cover:
• Speaking and listening
• Reading and writing
• Vocabulary
• Punctuation and Grammar

There are courses at different levels so you'll be able to start at the right level for you.

Support and assistance for women fleeing domestic violence.

Whether it occurs in public or in private, violence is unacceptable and we are determined to do all we can to help you.

• Domestic violence is any threatening behavior, violence or abuse between adults who are or have been in a relationship, or between family members. It can affect anybody, regardless of their gender or sexuality.
• The violence can be psychological, physical, sexual or emotional. It can include 'honour-based violence', female genital mutilation, and forced marriage.

Domestic violence occurs across all of society, regardless of age, gender, race, sexuality, wealth or geography. Usually it takes the form of violence against women by men, but children are also affected - they can be traumatised by what they've seen, and there is a strong connection between domestic violence and child abuse.

National Domestic Violence Helpline

A national 24 hour helpline provides access to advice and support to women experiencing domestic violence. The free phone helpline number is 0808 200 0247. The helpline is provided jointly by Women's Aid and Refuge.

Women’s Aid

The national helpline offers advice and support to women experiencing domestic violence. Women's Aid can also give details of refuges and the availability of refuge places throughout the UK. Its website provides links to specialist organisations that offer services to women from different minority ethnic communities and cultures.