Women's Self Injury Support Services

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Marriage and Relationships within a Cultural Context

This is a 3 hour workshop and will offer an opportunity to explore experiences of marriage/partnerships, within a cultural context.
Show Your Support For Us This Self Injury Awareness Day and Cast Your Vote in the My Favourite Voucher Codes Charity Poll

The 1st of March is Self Injury Awareness Day, and we’re delighted to have been invited by Bath-based company, My Favourite Voucher Codes, to feature as one of their charity partners for the month. We’re one of four charities competing to win a donation - 20% of the site’s profits - and we need your help!
DIY! Improve your mind, improve your health!

DIY! Improve your mind, improve your health! 15 places for black women of any age. To book, email [email protected]
Bike Maintenence - Know Your Bike Beginners' Workshop

Do you want to learn how to identify faults on your cycle? How to adjust your brakes and gears and know what to do with a punctured tyre?

Information and Navigation Service

We have always felt that it would be useful to run a service offering information about reliable self-help and information resources on self-harm and support to people looking for local or online support who don't know where to start. We have finally managed to get funding for this information and navigation service and before we start running it, we really we really want to know what people would find most useful so that we can offer the best service possible.
Experience-led Self-Help Resource

Our self-help resources are all based on the collective experiences of peers who use self harm, and the strategies they found helpful to cope. You can also read the resources in Cantonese, Polish and Punjabi.
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury

Women's Self Injury Support Services

Please don't hesitate to contact us for free, confidential, non-judgemental support around self-injury and related issues. All services open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7pm - 9.30pm. Please click here for details of how to access our support services.
What is self-injury?

Understand more about self-harm and self-injury
Why does it happen?

Find out some of the reasons behind self-harm and self-injury
UK Support Groups and Other Services

Comprehensive listing of local and national self-harm and self-injury support groups and organisations
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury
Risk Factors

Learn about the factors that increase the risk of self-harm and self-injury
About Us - Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Values

Read more about our vision that anyone who uses self-injury knows they are not alone; that everyone understands that self-injury is a complex and important issue we should all care about and that together we tackle both the causes and stigma of self-injury.
Distractions and alternatives
Launch of Self-Harm Prevention App distrACT

Self injury Support was involved in the development of the distrACT a self-harm prevention app launched in Bristol in November 2017.