Leeway Womens Aid
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£25,550
Funding round
Leeway Women's Aid provides a range of services for women and children in Great Yarmouth who have experienced domestic violence. We are a charity and were set up in 1974.
The Leeway Women's Aid Parenting Worker will work with mothers in the Great Yarmouth women's refuge and the outreach project offering advice, support and information on parenting issues and domestic violence concerns.
The worker will offer support once mothers have left the domestic violence situation and are having difficulties in parenting. These can result from the pressure of becoming a single parent and having to parent children that have either witnessed and/or experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse.
The Parenting Worker will offer one to one and group support for mothers. Our aim is to empower mothers to support their children more effectively over any difficulties in behaviour arising from the domestic violence. We will also offer support in managing issues such as:
- keeping safe
- different ways to approach discipline
- parenting difficulties that arise due to communal living in the refuge
- liaising with schools for example on bullying issues or extra support with school work.
The Parenting Worker will assess the support needs of the children, and work in partnership with other agencies such as the Family Support Team, Ormiston Trust, Sure Start, NORCAS and Home Start to ensure appropriate support is provided where possible.