What is the Aim of Project Unity?
Project Unity supports pregnant women and young mothers with care experience to engage with services, access practical and emotional support and learn new life skills. During this project, NYAS Cymru aims to keep families together, wherever possible.
The participants in Project Unity can also get involved in projects with other young women who have similar experiences. This project provides confidence building, access to resources and grants, housing support and budgeting guidance.
How Can Project Unity Help?
Project Unity takes a trauma-informed approach to support young mothers. The project aims to help young care experienced women to overcome any barriers that may prevent them from accessing support. Project Unity provides young women with the following support:
- 1-1 mentoring and advice
- Individualised intensive support, and formal advocacy
- Advice and assistance on managing benefits, budgeting and tenancies
- Advice, education and training on healthy relationships and other subjects
- Representation when trying to navigate systems and processes
- Signposting to intervention services when required
- Access to training/education and employment opportunities
- Information about rights and entitlements
You can explore the impact of Project Unity in our new report - 'HER Story: The Impact of Project Unity in Wales'. This is also available to read in Welsh.
Learn more about this project by downloading our leaflet, which is available in both English, and Welsh.
"The support was incredible. You referred me to all the right classes and places. You helped me with my housing. My confidence has shot up. I made new friends and gained new qualification/skills because of you. I now have new opportunities and I feel like myself again."
Care Experienced Young Mum*, Project Unity
"Unity have made a difference in my life by being with me every step of the way. You have someone who will stand up for you, and fight for you when you need it."
Care Experienced Young Mum*, Project Unity
NYAS celebrates the impact of Project Unity at the Senedd
On Wednesday March 11th, NYAS Cymru visited the Senedd for an event where they published a new report, HER Story: The Impact of Project Unity in Wales, highlighting the difference the Project Unity service has made to care-experienced young mothers over the past five years. NYAS were joined by our supporters, partners, colleagues, Sioned Williams MS who chaired the event, and the Minister for Children and Social Care (Wales), Dawn Bowden MS - amongst other representatives. Most importantly, we also heard from young women who have been directly supported by Project Unity, who bravely shared their own experiences.