Her Centre (Greenwich Womens Centre)
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Project funding
£90,674
Funding round
Greenwich Women's Centre is a charity that was set up in 1997 to provide a wide range of support to women in need in Greenwich.
We are using the Parenting Fund to provide an in-house Parenting Training Programme for mothers. The focus is on mothers living with conflict, but includes female carers and guardians from diverse backgrounds.
The content will be a mixture of training in Management, Leadership, Diversity, Assertiveness and Parenting Skills. Experienced and qualified facilitators will deliver it.
Some courses will be designed and tailored for areas of special need. These will emerge from the core Parenting Training Programme or be requested by potential users and organisations.
They may include some, if not all, the identified groups below:
- teenage mothers
- parents of teenage parents
- mothers who have or are experiencing domestic violence
- mothers who have or are experiencing sexual abuse/violence as children or adults
- others of abused children
- mothers coping with children presenting challenging behaviour
- 'mothers and sons' - mothers coping with sons who may be violent, law-breaking, abusing alcohol or drugs or experiencing teenage fatherhood
- 'mothers and daughters' - mothers coping with daughters who may be violent, law-breaking, abusing alcohol or drugs or experiencing teenage pregnancy
- grand mothering - progressive parenting skills for grandmothers and community elders
- war refugee mothers who may be traumatised
- Asian mothers
- ethnic-specific groups of mothers as appropriate, e.g. mothers coping with racism and its effects.
Greenwich Women's Centre will provide additional in-house support for this training as needed.