AVA and Survivor Involvement

This section tells you what work AVA is recently/currently doing that has elements of survivor involvement. If you would like more information on any of these pieces of work, feel free to get in touch.

 

• Focus groups with survivors for LB of Newham

• Violence Against Women and Girls - Creating Your Approach training course, which emphasises survivor involvement.

• Workshop delivery on survivor involvement at RISE conference 2011

• Focus groups with parents with children experiencing problematic substance use and displaying abusive behaviours, in partnership with Adfam.

• Showcasing survivors' creative works: AVA endeavours to showcase films, poems, artworks, opinions or anything else we find, that communicate survivors' voices.

• Support for GLADA Women's Voices
• Survivor voices are present on AVA's Board of Trustees.
• Survivors are vocal partners in the Bristol working group of our Stella Project Mental Health Initiative.
• AVA's Community Groups Programme esnures that women and children who have been part of groups regularly speak at events and their voices are part of ongoing evaluation.
• The Children & Young People's Project is conducted research on teenage pregnancy via focus groups with young people who have experienced abuse, in order to inform service delivery.
• Our prevention work with young people works with survivors.
• AVA participated in the Government Teen Relationship Abuse campaign, responding to messages from survivors, hosted a live debate on the message board and examined comments in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign.