Designing Gender Specific Services That Are Person-Centred and Needs Led.
/Forward Assist has long campaigned for gender-specific mental health support for women veterans. In 2017, the charity was awarded funding by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to develop a specific service for women veterans. The Salute Her programme launched in 2018, identifying significant gaps in services available to women veterans, especially in relation to those women in the military that are at higher risk for exposure to sexual harassment or sexual assault than their male counterparts. Forward Assist has started to fill that gap by providing women-only military sexual trauma support groups, one-to-one trauma informed therapy and consultation sessions, and therapeutic residential retreats.
