RASA Merseyside are a specialist sexual violence service offering trauma-informed therapeutic support.
Our counselling services are free for asylum seekers and refugees living on the Wirral. Mind Clarity CIC’s counsellors are all fully qualified and multilingual so can provide mental health support in the clients primary or preferred language. All sessions are conducted remotely via telephone or online call.
Sahir House provides general support, housing support, support accessing health services, employment support, domestic abuse support, refugee move-on and integration.
Our Liverpool is based within Liverpool City Council and works to make Liverpool a more welcoming place for people seeking sanctuary.
Come and meet with others. There is an opportunity to buy cheap food, clothes and toiletries. This drop-in runs informal English sessions.
Come and meet with others. There is an opportunity to buy cheap food, clothes and toiletries. Table tennis and pool available.
Come and meet with others. There is an opportunity to buy cheap food, clothes and toiletries.
We also provide a free lunch.
We offer:
- Advocacy and advice across a broad area and Immigration advice (OISC1) and support, including student placements.
- Alleviation of destitution through the provision of food, clothing and housing. A Complex Needs Social Worker assists asylum seekers with needs additional to destitution.
- Working with the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, we provide Family Reunion Visa Applications and Further Submissions assistance.
- ESOL classes with two walk-in classes, one for conversation and one for women only at our site. We also hold 80 places for English classes across the week with enrolment each September.
- Access to 2nd hand clothing, shoes, kitchen-ware and other donated items, daily except Wednesday.
- Encouragement to asylum seekers and refugees to become volunteers and to engage with their new community.
- Social events to encourage integration and friendship – Refugee Week, Christmas, trips and visits to other venues, cycle programmes and hill walks and several football initiatives.
- Well-being projects: bicycle repair, gardening and allotments, cooking demonstrations with other local groups. A Women’s group and a Choir run on Thursdays. Action Asylum projects actively place Asylum Seekers in volunteering roles with non-asylum organisations including beach/park cleans, tree planting, creative writing projects, indoor climbing and arts projects. We now work in 5 other cities with this programme.
- Input from other agencies including the NHS Community Inclusion Team giving access to GPs and dentists. Access to other healthcare: Covid Vaccination, Sight Tests, Blood Pressure and AF Testing can be sourced through the centre. The Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, Merseyside Refugee Support Network deliver advice from our building.
- Information and Research opportunities include working with Liverpool University on a Mental Health feasibility study and surveys for the NHS.
- The Asylum Information Roadshow, School Presentations and Social Work Training. These are wide ranging presentations to schools, voluntary sector groups, universities, local authorities, seminars and conferences.