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Domestic Violence Europe Support Projects
Project Documentation 1998-1999 (Transnational Network of Experts from NGO Women Projects in Great Britain and Germany for Optimising the Action Against Domestic Violence)
The aim of this transnational project is to promote an exchange of preventative work and training concepts in responding to domestic violence by establishing a bi-national network of workers in Britain and Germany. The project promotes quality assurance in NGO women’s projects in the areas of service provision, preventative work
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Domestic Violence Policy Support Projects
Mapping Services Working With Families Where There is Domestic Violence
This project was conducted in association with Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, NCH Action for Children, NSPCC, WAFE and CWASU, and set out to: identify and map family support work with women, children and men within both the statutory and voluntary sectors throughout the UK; identify innovative work throughout the country
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Children Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Research Young People
Children’s Needs, Coping Strategies and Understanding of Woman Abuse
This multi-methodological study sought to discover how both children and young people understand domestic violence and how those who have lived with it cope with, and make sense, of their experiences. The primary themes of this research were children’s general understandings and perceptions of domestic violence; including whether they see
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Domestic Violence Evaluation Research Violence Against Women
Evaluation of The Movement Project: A Violence Prevention Programme for Men – An Internal Report
This is the report of a CWASU evaluation of the Movement Project, based at the Cassel Centre, South London, which was established in the mid-1990s. During the evaluation period it provided a mix of group-based and one-to-one work with men who have been violent towards their partners. Three main types
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Domestic Violence Research Violence Against Women
Survey on women’s experiences of inter-personal violence – An Internal Report for Lambeth Safer Cities
Crime Audit by Lambeth Safer Cities found that women aged 17-29 form the highest number of victims of violence and crime against the person in the Borough. This and other related findings prompted a concern to extend the local knowledge base on women’s safety with regard to the extent, type
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Children Domestic Violence Policy Support Projects
Review of the position of and provision for children in English refuges
This study investigated work with children in refuges for women and children experiencing domestic violence. The study also explores the effects on children of experiencing and witnessing such violence. A multi-methodological approach was adopted involving archive research, a literature review, a detailed telephone survey of all refuge groups and nine
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Domestic Violence Evaluation Perpetrators Support Projects
Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project
Background There is currently no national policy on domestic violence in the UK. At the most basic level preventing violence against women in the home involves two components: increasing safety for the woman and her children in the short term, and ending the man’s violence in the longer term. DVIP
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Domestic Violence Research Violence Against Women
Developing community responses and resources for women experiencing domestic violence in the Kings Cross area
The report is based on three months research into the potential of developing community responses to the widespread problem of domestic violence in the King’s Cross area. Data were gathered via a literature review, questionnaires and interviews involving local organisations, both statutory and voluntary, and individual women based in the
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Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Evaluation
Evaluation of Domestic Violence Matters (A Development Project)
This report documents the multi-methodological evaluation of ‘Domestic Violence Matters’ (DVM), an adaptation of a Canadian project – the Family Consultancy Service (London, Ontario) – which involves locating a team of skilled civilian crisis interveners within the police service to follow up police responses to domestic violence. This experimental pilot
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Domestic Violence Training Violence Against Women
Challenging Domestic Violence: A Training and Resource Pack
This Training and Resource Pack is aimed at anyone wanting to address domestic violence in their work or community setting. It is based on the Multi-Disciplinary Training for Trainers course conducted by the authors in 1989. The Pack is designed to provide simple ideas for organising and conducting training around