Every day, our outreach workers visit clients all over Birmingham who are in need. Could you help us to help them? Two of our outreach services, Gateway Healthy Futures and the Pregnancy Outreach...
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Health Trainers: still here – still changing lives!
Over the last few months, since the Health Trainers service was recommissioned, we've been changing the way we work very slightly. We've brought in some part time roles, we've started specifically...
24 hours in POWS
It's now 18 months since we changed the intake criteria for our Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service (POWS). We thought it would be interesting to show you how the POWS service looks now, on an...
A happy coincidence
Although it's wonderful to hear from past clients, most people choose not to get in touch once their support has ended... Which is why this story comes to you as a result of a happy coincidence....
Pre-Diabetes Course: numbers stay up as blood sugar levels go down
Our first Pre-Diabetes Course clients are now six months into the course, and are starting to see the results of their hard work. We have been really pleased to hear that everyone who's been back to...
News about the Gateway Health Trainers service
After a period of uncertainty, we're pleased to be able to confirm that the Gateway Health Trainers service will be continuing until at least March 2017. Unfortunately, Birmingham Public Health has...
Clinical study shows that POWS improve maternal mental health
We talk about "evidence-based" services a lot, but for social interventions such as our Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service (POWS) it can be difficult to find proof that the service is successful...
Local pre-diabetes results are influencing national roll out
You may remember we launched a new service at the end of last year, supporting people who have been diagnosed as being "pre-diabetic" (also known as "borderline diabetic" - in other words, they have...
Gaps in service leave women in danger
If you are affected by the issues in this story, please click here to see a list of links and phone numbers that might be able to help. At Gateway we often find ourselves "filling in the...