A new briefing from the Women and Girls Initiative is now available.
“Sanctuary and freedom: the transformational power of spaces for women and girls” is a briefing published as part of the Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) Learning and Impact Services. It contains insights and evidence for women and girls’ services, commissioners, service providers, funders and other professionals on the importance of creating the right physical and emotional spaces that have the power to transform the lives of women and girls. These spaces are integral to the processes of access, empowerment and rebuilding lives. The briefing has been co-created with nine WGI projects, and input from a further 22 including specialist services on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and women’s centres which offer advocacy and empowerment, counselling and therapy, learning and arts. The organisations work with young women, women travellers, street sex workers, women who have been trafficked, black and minoritised women including those with no recourse to public funds and women in poverty. Sue Botcherby, DMSS Research and Liz Kelly, Child and Woman Abuse Studies at London Metropolitan University (CWASU) have brought the briefing together working with staff from the following projects: A Way Out, Hibiscus, Leeway, Trevi House, Women and Girls Network, Women Centre, Young Women’s Outreach Project and The Zinthiya Trust. “Sanctuary and Freedom” is relevant for:- Organisations working with women and girls;
- Policy-makers and commissioners wanting to think about how women and girls can best be supported;
- Anyone else interested in supporting or finding out more about specialist work with women and girls.
