What we do
Your stories
Categories
- Crime and violence: abuse
- Education, work and skills
- Health and wellbeing: alcohol
- Health and wellbeing: teen pregnancy
- Health and wellbeing: young mums
- Money and debt
fact
From April 2007 to March 2008 1,317 girls and young women had their work at YWCA either recorded
or accredited with a qualification
fact
56% of British black women prisoners had been imprisoned for a drug related offence, more than twice the proportion of white British women
fact
A quarter of women in the UK experience domestic violence in their lifetime
fact
After having a child, many women become trapped in part-time, low-paid and low-status work
their stories
Hazel says: "I was expelled from school at 15. I felt like there was nothing else for me to do so I started drinking and taking drugs."
