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Rebuilding Shattered Lives Campaign A Service Perspective

Rebuilding Shattered Lives Campaign A Service Perspective. Background to the Campaign. Outcomes Data– Women were not doing as well as men at St Mungo’s Peer research- ‘Better Deal for Women’ St Mungo’s Women’s Strategy: Policies and training for staff

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Rebuilding Shattered Lives Campaign A Service Perspective

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  1. Rebuilding Shattered Lives Campaign A Service Perspective

  2. Background to the Campaign • Outcomes Data– Women were not doing as well as men at St Mungo’s • Peer research- ‘Better Deal for Women’ • St Mungo’s Women’s Strategy: • Policies and training for staff • Improved support for women on specific issues they face e.g. domestic violence, pregnancy, prostitution • Partnerships with specialist agencies

  3. Rebuilding Shattered Lives Campaign • 18 month campaign to share best practice • Call for solutions on particular challenges and issues faced by homeless women • 9 themes identified through peer research and led by an expert panel • Aims to influence policy and practice across the sector

  4. Rebuilding Shattered Lives Campaign • Sign up on www.rebuildingshatteredlives.org • to showcase your service or client views on: • Housing and Homelessness (still open) • Domestic/sexual violence (now until 31st Oct 2012) • Children and Families (Nov/Dec 2012) • Substance Use (Jan/Feb 2013- led by DrugScope) • Mental health and wellbeing (March/April 2013) • Offending (May/June 2013) • Childhood trauma / abuse (July/Aug 2013) • Employment and Skills  (Aug/Sept 2013) • Involvement in prostitution (Oct/Nov 2013)

  5. Women’s homelessness and Substance use: key support issues • Stereotypes and prejudice; • Pregnancy; • Prostitution; • Domestic Violence; • Criminal Justice System • Mental Health • Physical Health & wellbeing • Complex Trauma

  6. A service perspective on stereotypes and prejudice

  7. A service perspective on Pregnancy • Awareness of pregnancy; • Timing of engaging with services; • Timing of interventions being offered; • Specialist midwife; • Social services; • Awareness of risks to the baby, namely: • Alcohol foetal syndrome; • Neonatal withdrawal syndrome;

  8. A service perspective on Prostitution • Types of prostitution • Routes into street prostitution • Pimp vs. Boyfriend • Harm Minimisation- Safe Sex, Street Safety. • Barriers to accessing treatment.

  9. A service perspective on Domestic Violence

  10. Organisational issues for the campaign to address • Male dominated hostels and treatment services; • Reduction in women-only groups and services; • 40% reduction in women only accommodation in the last year. (Homeless Link) • Lack of specialist and holistic services for women. • Stigma and discrimination against homeless women using substances. • Joint working and partnerships across the homeless sector particularly with substance use treatment providers.

  11. www.rebuildingshatteredlives.org Contacts: Marteka Swaby Marteka.swaby@mungos.org Rita Martins Ritam@mungos.org Esther SampleWomen’s Strategy Coordinator esther.sample@mungos.org

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