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Women's Views Need To Be At Heart Of Support Services And Policy - Not An Afterthought

An excellent blog by Pip Williams - a consultant, trainer and the founder of both Experts by Lived Experience Network (ELEN) and the UK & European Birth Mother Network - Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - on the findings of the Mapping the Maze consultation with women who have experiences of multiple disadvantage.

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Mapping the Maze - full report (2017)

Full report for the Mapping the Maze project which focuses on how services respond to the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage, highlighting the gaps in provision that exist and proposing a model for good practice in supporting women facing multiple disadvantage

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Mapping the Maze - executive summary (2017)

A summary of the full Mapping the Maze report

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Women’s Community Services: A Wise Commission (2012)

An wide-ranging review of the benefits of investing in gender-specific support for women involved in offending

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Brighton Oasis Project: POCAR programme evaluation (2015)

Evaluation of a parenting project within a women-only substance use service in Brighton

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Women with multiple needs: breaking the cycle (2014)

A summary of the evaluation of a partnership project between Midland Heart and Anawim to better support women experiencing multiple disadvantage, which aimed to reduce violence against women through an integrated approach to housing provision and social support

 

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Shelter from the Storm: Trauma-Informed Care in Homelessness Services Settings (2010)

An article published in the Open Health Services and Policy Journal exploring the evidence base for trauma-informed care in homelessness services

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Supporting vulnerable pregnant women and new mothers in the community: a literature review (2015)

Commissioned by Birth Companions, this literature review aimed to describe and identify what works for supporting vulnerable women during pregnancy and in the first few weeks after giving birth

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Case by Case: Refuge provision in London for survivors who use substances or have mental health problems (2014)

AVA and Solace Women's Aid report of their survey of refuge provision in London for women with more complex needs

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The Challenge of Change: Improving services for women involved in prostitution and substance use (2013)

Findings report from Drugscope and AVA's project about the links between prostitution and substance use and how to support women affected by these issues

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Complicated Matters: A Toolkit Addressing Domestic and Sexual Violence, Substance Use and Mental Health (2012)

AVA's comprehensive guide to working with survivors and perpetrators of domestic and sexual abuse who have also been affected by problematic substance use and/or mental ill-health

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The Corston Report: 10 Years On (2017)

Women In Prison's review of how well the reforms set out in Baroness Corston's report on women's experiences of the criminal justice system have been implemented

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Becoming Trauma Informed: Toolkit for Women’s Community Service Providers (2016)

Part of the One Small Thing initiative, this toolkit has been prepared to support organisations that want to develop gender-responsive and trauma-informed services

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Developing Integrated Services for Women with Co-Occurring Disorders and Trauma Histories (2004)

The Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study was a five-year programme in the US that brought together researchers, service providers and policymakers to look at ways of improving support for women and children affected by trauma, abuse, substance use and mental distress. This report acts as a toolkit for other countries, local areas and service providers wanting to do the same.

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Asian Women, Domestic Violence and Mental Health: a toolkit for health professionals (2009)

A excellent resource from EACH for any practitioner working with Asian women who may be affected by domestic violence and/or mental distress

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Women’s Experiences of Recovery from Substance Misuse: A review of women’s only group therapy (2016)

An evaluation of EACH's women-only group therapy programme in London

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Gender-Responsive Program Assessment Tool (2008)

A simple tool developing by Stephanie Covington and colleagues in the US that service providers can use to evaluate the gender-responsiveness of the services they deliver for women and girls

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Home truths: housing for women in the criminal justice system (2016)

A joint policy briefing by the Prison Reform Trust and Women in Prison on the challenges women offenders face in finding and maintaining accommodation in the UK

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Trauma-Informed: The Trauma Toolkit (2013)

A Canadian resource for service providers to deliver services that are trauma-informed

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The Llwybrau Research Project: final report

As part of the Women's Pathfinder project in Wales, the Llwybrau Research Project aimed to assess the feasibility of utilising existing Welsh Domestic Abuse One Stop Shops to support Welsh women offenders. This report documents the project's findings.

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The core components of a gender-sensitive service for women experiencing multiple disadvantage (2017)

A literature review conducted for Mapping the Maze looking at what existing research tells us about developing services for women experiencing multiple disadvantage

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Joining the Dots: The combined burden of violence, abuse and poverty in the lives of women (2016)

A report commissioned by Agenda and written by DMSS Research and Heriot Watt University

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Women and girls at risk: Evidence across the life course (2014)

A review for Lankelly Chase about women's experience of disadvantage throughout their lives

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The MEAM Approach (website)

A central resource for research and guidance on developing responses to people experiencing multiple disadvantage

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Psychologically Informed Services for Homeless People, Good Practice Guide (2012)

Guidance from the Department for Communities and Local Government

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Psychologically Informed Environments: A Literature Review (2016)

A review of psychologically informed environments (PIE) by the Mental Health Foundation that highlights the lack of evidence about gender-sensitive models of PIE

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Promising Practices: Mental Health trust responses to domestic violence (2012)

AVA's study exploring the extent to which mental health trusts in England address domestic violence

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The development and impact of community services for women offenders: an evaluation (2013)

Findings of an evaluation examining six services developed in third sector partnerships for women offenders in the community

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Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The final report (2014)

The final report from St Mungo's Rebuilding Shattered Lives campaign to raise awareness of the particular experiences and challenges homeless women in the UK face and to share best practice to ensure women get the right help

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The Price of Safety: How the housing system is failing women and children fleeing domestic abuse (2016)

Solace Women's Aid's study of their service users' experiences of the housing system in England

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Trauma‐informed or trauma‐denied: Principles and implementation of trauma‐informed services for women (2005)

Article published in the Journal of Community Psychology about developing trauma-informed services for women in a range of settings

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Treat me like a human being, like someone who matters (2012)

Findings of AVA's consultation with women affected by domestic and sexual abuse, substance use and mental distress about their experiences of using support services

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Women at the Centre: Innovation in the Community (2011)

Summary of an in-depth report about the work of WomenCentre, a gender-specific support organisation in Kirklees and Calderdale. The full report can be downloaded here.

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No Woman Turned Away (2017)

Findings from the first year of Women's Aid's No Women Turned Away Project which aims to reduce the number of women turned away from refuges

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Why women only? The value and benefit of by women, for women services (2007)

Findings from the Women's Resource Centre's research into the value of services by and for women

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