Goals: To support 17- to 26-year-olds who have been sexually abused or raped
Funding: Has received 86,000 from Children in Need to fund a full-time support worker over three years
It can have a devastating effect on a person if they don't receive counselling after they have been sexually abused or raped, says Glynis Flood-Coleman, youth support development worker at The Nexus Institute in Northern Ireland. "Some people go through most of their lives thinking they've put it behind them, but then they reach their forties or fifties and they're unable to cope," she says. "The feelings can become too painful."
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