Project details
Reduction type
Primary prevention
Area
Doncaster
Funding amount
£15,000
Purpose
To provide a specialist domestic abuse programme delivering information, advice and support from both peers and professionals, as well as breaking down barriers to accessing provision.
Quick summary
The funding allows delivery of a bespoke programme for women who have experienced/are at high risk of domestic abuse but have not been equipped by society to identify it, giving them the tools to be able to confidently report domestic abuse.
The specialist programme will link into an already existing pathway of community-based support for women experiencing multiple and complex disadvantage including intergenerational poverty, trauma, and addiction, as domestic abuse is never an isolated issue.
Changing Lives, growing futures project will support marginalised women who have the least recourse to safety, particularly our refugee and asylum seeking families. As many women cannot name or identify domestic abuse due to gender stereotypes, cultural norms and societal pressure. Children will also be supported by trauma-informed practitioners in a free crèche, this also gives women a safe space and a break from family demands to understand their own experiences.
Women will be given the tools, knowledge and confidence to report Domestic Abuse.
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