We provide talking therapy and wellbeing activities, all things that are good for promoting good mental health. Because we are specialist for this age group, it means we never have to turn anyone away. So we started off with just the one group, we’re now covering a third of Cornwall with groups for young women aged 18 – 25, we decided to keep a small demographic so we could offer that specialist care. That little bit of routine, something consistent that is there for you every single week and it’s been life changing for these young women, for a lot of them that is the only consistent thing in their lives. We started our first group in Falmouth in the October which was again the middle of another lockdown so we had to follow a lot of strict restrictions and limit the numbers in our group, take temperatures etc, there was so many things but I was determined that if you are not able to leave your house, there is that one thing in your week. She couldn’t go to work or the gym and then her sleep went out the window, there was some many things that were different for her and I thought there must be so many young women who are feeling like this and I realised that there was a way if you were supporting vulnerable young women through the pandemic and I thought this is a challenge lets set up a charity of support groups right in the middle of a pandemic and that’s what we did. We had just managed to get her the help she needed, and she had built a good structure and routine with work and the gym and healthy eating and then when the lockdown came, her counselling went from being face to face to on the phone which she really struggled with. After loosing Georgia, I started looking online at the statistics realising that suicide is the leading cause of death in young people and the office of national statistics are now saying that females under the age of 24 are at the highest rate they’ve ever been since they began in 1981 and I just released that Georgia definitely wasn’t the only person who was feeling this way and there would be lots of other young women that are feeling this way and similar to Georgia will have had all their support and help taken away during lockdown. “Georgia’s Voice (GV) is the legacy of my daughter Georgia, who took her own life during the first lockdown we had in 2020. Hi Sophie, can you tell us a bit about Georgia’s Voice It’s mental health awareness week (May 15 th – 21 st) and we wanted to share an interview we had with Sophie Alway founder of local suicide prevention charity Georgia’s Voice.
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