Project details
Reduction type
Attitudinal Change, Primary prevention
Area
Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield
Funding amount
£17,709
Purpose
The funding will provide additional Freedom Programmes that are already running but will need to continue, this programme examines the roles played by attitudes and beliefs on the actions of abusive men and the responses of victims and survivors. In addition, the Teenage Relationship Abuse Programme (Escape the TRAP) will run which is specifically designed to help young people recognise and protect themselves from teenage relationship abuse.
Quick summary
The funding will provide two programmes which aim to support women to learn about the dynamics of power and control in relationships.
Due to the massive increase in incidents of domestic abuse during lockdown and the requirement for smaller groups due to social distancing. The funding will provide additional Freedom Programmes that are already running but will need to continue. The Freedom Domestic Abuse programme examines the roles played by attitudes and beliefs on the actions of abusive men and the responses of victims and survivors. The aim is to help them to make sense of and understand what has happened to them, instead of the whole experience just feeling like a horrible mess. The Freedom Programme also describes in detail how children are affected by being exposed to this kind of abuse and very importantly how their lives are improved when the abuse is removed. The funding will allow seven additional Freedom programmes to be delivered between September 2020 and March 2021, one each month.
Also, funding will help develop the projects offer to vulnerable teenage girls (including teen parents) by further developing their expertise in the specialist Teenage Relationship Abuse Programme (Escape the TRAP). This programme specifically designed to help young people recognise and protect themselves from teenage relationship abuse. A trained practitioner will deliver the programme on a 1 to 1 basis with one young woman, this will enable 21 young women to engage in this programme in the months between September 2020 and March 2021.
The aim of both courses is to support women to learn about the dynamics of power and control in relationships so that they can begin to explore how gender inequalities impact and shape beliefs and behaviours at a much earlier stage, and to give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to protect themselves and their children in the future.
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