IMPACT THEME: Housing & Homelessness, Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, Poverty and Disadvantage
WHAT THEY DO: Safer Places
LOCATION: Harlow
PARTNERSHIP DATE: 2022
FUND PARTNERSHIP: Women in Safe Homes Fund
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
ABOUT: Safer Places has been supporting adult and child victims of domestic abuse across Essex & Hertfordshire for over 45 years. It offers trauma-informed, confidential, free, and individually tailored support to anyone experiencing domestic abuse.
PURPOSE OF PARTNERSHIP: The partnership between Safer Places and the Women in Safe Homes Fund has resulted in 8 properties being purchased, with 5 properties being handed over so far. Safer Places is providing flats and houses which are shared by two single women as an alternative to a traditional, multi- occupancy refuge.
Safer Places is one of the fund's housing partners which predominantly provide crisis refuge accommodation and support to women in high-risk situations who are likely to present with poor mental health and experiences of trauma related to domestic violence and other forms of Violence Agianst Women & Girls (VAWG).
So far, the Women in Safe Homes fund has already bought 78 homes (63% of its property target), to house 183 women and 80 children. As of March 2024, 54 homes had been handed to partners, providing 183 women and 80 children with a safe new home.
Amara* experienced honour-based violence and a physically abusive relationship with her ex-partner. She now has a safe, secure home provided by Safer Places and the fund:
“It was welcoming as soon as I walked through the front door. It felt homely. It has given me freedom and safety.
It has helped me to be able to concentrate on the things that matter - having time to be able to process information without the fear of making a wrong decision. There has not been any pressure on me, so I have been able to take time in thinking about options that are available to me. I have had weekly support sessions and have worked on my mental health with their support.
I am completely safe now and have made friends with others through the groups who understand what it is like having to leave everything behind. My plans for the future are looking for full-time work and to expand my friends.”
* name changed.
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