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Essex

SETDAB (Southend, Essex and Thurrock Domestic Abuse Bureau)

Provides advice and information on services for those affected by domestic abuse in Southend Thurrock and Essex


SETDAB can…

  • Provide signposting facilities to the domestic abuse support services that are available.
  • Provide Information and resources for domestic abuse, elder abuse, child abuse, forced marriage, male victims, housing support, legal advice, female genital mutilation, etc.

Website:

https://setdab.org/

Essex COMPASS

COMPASS is a single point of access to support victims of domestic abuse across Southend, Essex and Thurrock. It can be viewed as the ‘front door’ to support. The services Compass work with include; Safe Steps, Changing Pathways and The Next Chapter whose services are outlined below.

Essex Domestic Abuse Helpline Available from 8 am to 8 pm weekdays and 8 am to 1 pm weekends.Messages will be responded to within 24hrs

0330 333 7 444

General enquiries

enquiries@essexcompass.org.uk

Next Chapter

Provide free and confidential services to support people who are currently experiencing or have previously experienced domestic abuse.

Next Chapter can…

  • Support people who are experiencing domestic abuse and don’t feel able to or need to leave their homes.
  • Provide a temporary home for up to 12 women and their children.
  • Provide space within one of their residential homes, and provide professional, specialist support focused on the identified needs of women who are battling with this type of addiction to help them with their recovery journey.
  • Work within a community setting and can provide access to the same emotional and practical advice and support to promote safety and recovery.
  • The organization’s Children’s and Young People’s Team includes Family Domestic Abuse Practitioners (FDAP) and Young Person Violence Advisors (YPVA).
  • The next Chapter provides a range of services including emotional support for children and young people, parenting support, and family work.
  • The Next Chapter is the provider of DA-informed schools training and workshops, which are intended to raise awareness and increase knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse in schools within the primary, secondary, and higher education levels.
  • Programs:

    Hand-in-Hand aimed to help non-abusive parents understand the impact of the abuse on their children and to share effective parenting approaches which help them support their children to recover from the abuse they have experienced
    Tribe: is a trauma-informed group intervention designed by the Next Chapter for children and young people affected by domestic abuse. TRIBE is an 8-week program that offers educational and emotional support for children and young people.
    TrueNotToxic: provide free practical & emotional support, and information about healthy relationships and how to recognize the signs of abuse.

Call Line:

01206 500585
01206 761276.

Email Address:

info@thenextchapter.org.uk

Website:

https://www.thenextchapter.org.uk/

Address/Office:

P.O. Box 40, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2XJ.

Safe Steps

Safer Places can…

  • Support you to find the best solution for your situation, whether you remain at home or find a safer alternative.
  • Provide IDVAs (Independent Domestic Violence Advisors) who offer a person-centered approach to support each client. Their practitioners can complete a comprehensive risk assessment and help you come up with an individual safety plan, tailor-made to help you to identify and mitigate risk factors.
  • Provide advocacy to assist with housing needs, legal assistance, benefits, mental health, substance misuse, and emotional well-being.
  • Provides safe accommodation in their refuge to over 80 women and children each year.
  • Offer free counseling for adults who are no longer in abusive relationships but are struggling with emotions to overcome past trauma.
  • Provide group trauma-informed recovery programs.
  • Men experiencing abuse may reach out as well.

Call Line:

01702 302333

Office Hours:

Monday–Friday, 09:00 am–17:00pm.

Email Address:

info@saferplaces.co.uk

Website:

https://www.safesteps.org/

Address/Office:

4 West Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS09DA.

Changing Pathways

Provides free and confidential support and advocacy to individuals subjected to domestic abuse and stalking.

Changing Pathways can…

  • Provide safe accommodation to adult women and their children who are experiencing domestic abuse and are unable to stay in their own homes or access alternative safe accommodation.
  • Help you to gain perspective about the issues that are troubling you, through their Counselling Services Team.
  • Give you access to the Community Services Team that supports service users who are not resident within the refuge accommodation.

Call Line:

0330 333 7 444

Refuge Space Call Line:

01268 581591.

Office Hours:

Monday – Friday 09:00am to 17:00pm.

Email Address:

welcome@changingpathways.org

Website:

https://changingpathways.org/

The Change Project

(In partnership with SETDAB) The organization encourages people to break the cycle of domestic abuse by changing their abusive behavior.

The Change Project can…

  • Offer access to Respect accredited domestic violence perpetrator programs.
  • Through the behavioral change of the abuser, increase the well-being of people who are, or have been, living with conflict or domestic violence & abuse.
  • Provide counseling for families, and individuals.

Call Line:

0845 3727701

Text:

07872 541982

Email Address:

tcp@thechangeportfolio.org

Website:

https://www.thechange-project.org/

Address/Office:

The Change Project, c/o Chelmsford CVS, Burgess Well House, Coval Lane, Chelmsford CM1 1FW.

Safer Places

  • Services: Fledglings provides a domestic abuse recovery service for non-abusing parents/carers and children and young people (CYP), from the age of 5, who have been exposed to domestic violence.
  • Break the Cycle (BTC): is a service for young people aged between 13-19 years old and has been running for three years. The project aims to promote and educate young people on healthy relationships.
  • BTC: offers 1:1 support for those in recovery, provides a school prevention program, delivering class workshops on healthy relationships and the warning signs of controlling and abusive behavior.
  • BTC: either a one-off session or a 6-8week program, delivered in schools, colleges, and alternate education and young people’s provisions.
  • The Safer Places team also provides awareness training to professionals and teacher/support staff.

Website:

https://www.btcsafesteps.org/

Website:

https://www.safesteps.org/

The Change Project in partnership with SETDAB

  • Services: they enable young people to develop healthy balanced relationships in later life through a range of therapeutic services, drama-based workshops in schools
  • Provide training to professionals and the wider public about relationships in conflict.
  • Their Child Focussed Counselling and Play Therapy supports children who are distressed and struggle to explain why. The children can act out their distress through changes in their behaviors.
  • Their Family Counselling service for schools works by focusing on the systems around the child. Where the child is too young to make significant changes, the counsellor will work with the surrounding family/guardians to help improve emotional or behavioural issues within the home.

  • Their youth counseling service can help young people to build confidence, resilience, and self-esteem.

Website:

https://www.thechange-project.org/for-professionals/services-for-schools/

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