Outreach/Community Services Support
Our community services support is a free for women in the Aylesbury Vale area who, either now or in the past, have been treated badly by an intimate partner or ex-partner or a close family member.
We offer:
- Someone to listen.
- Someone to discuss your options with you
- Information so that you can make your own choice.
- Safety planning.
- Advocacy and signposting
- Support to prosecute your abuser.
- Support to obtain civil orders.
- Support with child contact issues.
- Referrals to appropriate agencies.
- Access to Refuge accommodation.
- Workers who can speak Urdu, Punjabi, Pahari and Hindi should you need them.
- An Independent Domestic Violence Advice service if you are at high risk of harm.
Our support is about your choices, your options and your decisions on how you want to live your life.
If you are still living with your abuser we will support you but unfortunately there may be limits on the types of support we can offer to ensure your own and the worker’s safety.
The Service is available to all women regardless of age, class, ethnic origin, disability, sexuality, nationality, religion or cultural beliefs. Also women with or without children.
The Service is available on:
Monday to Friday 9.30 am – 5.00 pm
Later appointments are available on request
Contact 01296 437777 or email enquiries.awaid@outlook.com
It has helped confirm the behaviour I experienced in my relationship was emotional abuse.
I feel like I have been listened to and I have been informed of my rights and options.
I now understand the cycle of abuse and have the confidence and knowledge to change how I deal with it, and support my daughter to be empowered too.
MYTH
Domestic violence
only happens in poorer families
Anyone can be abused. Domestic violence is not confined to poorer families, those on benefits or so-called problem families. It happens in urban and rural communities, in high rise estates and middle class suburbs, in white and in ethnic minority families. Any woman can be abused, regardless of her age. She might be any of the women you have come in contact with: your sister, your daughter, your mother, your friend, your colleague, your neighbour.
Domestic violence crosses all boundaries, social and economic, religious and cultural.
