Women’s Aid
Last updated: 28th July 2024
Support Type:
Voluntary
Need supported:
- Accommodation / Homelessness
- Alcohol
- Domestic Abuse
- Drugs
- Health / Wellbeing
- Mental Health
- Women
- Young People
Aim/Purpose:
Supporting women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. The purpose of Women’s Aid is to provide a holistic service to women and children impacted by all forms of domestic abuse, to educate, challenge and co-operate with external agencies and the wider community with a vision to eradicate domestic abuse:
- To provide services and temporary refuge to women and children experiencing domestic abuse
- To empower and enable women to determine their own future
- To recognise, respond and care for the emotional needs of children and young people
- To offer support and guidance to any women who requests it, both in refuge and in her own community
- To educate, challenge and inform the public, the media, police, courts, social services and other authorities about the prevalence and effects of domestic abuse.
We will always be mindful that domestic abuse is a direct result of the general position of women in our society and perpetrators decisions to meet their own needs without negotiation because they believe that they are entitled to. Domestic Abuse is a breach of Human Rights.
Suitability criteria:
- Female
- All ages
Assessment/referral process:
- Any agency, Self-referral
All age service. Women and children