Quetzal has a mission to provide free and inclusive, counselling, support services and outreach to empower female survivors’ recovery from the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.
The charity was the brainchild of Jennifer Anthony Black, beginning in 1989 as a self-help group and then developing into a more formal range of professional support services.
In 2019, Quetzal celebrated its 30 years and the start of a new journey as it strives to develop its services further.
Quetzal remains the only long-term counselling services supporting women recovering from the trauma of childhood sexual abuse in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Through its outreach work, Quetzal also aspires to become a driving force in using a community-based approach to empower communities with the knowledge and capacity to support women affected by childhood sexual abuse.
The charity aims to give female survivors a voice to be heard and enable agency and control.
They also want to work with local communities to challenge the shame and taboo narratives and raise awareness of childhood sexual abuse.
The charity works in a trauma-informed way that does not re-traumatise female survivors, staff, volunteers or others, keeping the voice of those with lived experience central to how they work and what they do.
In 2021 the Randal Charitable Foundation provided grant funding for the provision of existing counselling services and to deliver ‘single session therapy’.
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