On the 18th September 2024, we ran a webinar on "Mental health and domestic abuse" where we welcomed guest speakers Emma Clark and Katherine Dean from Women's Aid. You can watch the webinar recording below.
Extra Resources
Speaker slides:
| womens_aid_presentation_-_vamhn_webinar.pdf |
About Women's Aid:
Domestic abuse is a public health crisis, causing a range of mental and physical health conditions and annually costing the NHS an estimated 2.3 billion pounds. Our Annual Audit 2024 found that the area that members were most commonly running without any dedicated funding (43.1%) was therapeutic support services. Many of these services receive a large proportion of referrals from the NHS, without receiving any health funding.
We are urging the government to adequately fund local health systems to meet the needs of survivors and local health systems to commission needs-led mental health support for survivors delivered by local, specialist domestic abuse services, and ensure any Mental Health Strategy includes actions to address the specific mental health needs of survivors. For more information about our key asks, view our policy briefing for Integrated Care Systems here. If you have any further questions about Women’s Aid’s research and policy work on domestic abuse and mental health, please get in contact with us at [email protected]
Speaker information:
Emma has worked at Women’s Aid in the Research & Evaluation team on the On Track project for nearly two years. On Track is Women’s Aid bespoke case management and outcomes monitoring system, and where services and survivors consent, their data feeds into a national dataset held by the On Track team at Women’s Aid. Emma works on the national dataset to inform Women’s Aid’s research, policy and campaigning work. Previously, Emma has a few years of quantitative social research experience and outreach work with refugee and asylum seeking women.
Katherine is a researcher specialised in gender and development, with over eight years of experience working in the UK and internationally across research, programme management and implementation. At Women’s Aid, Katherine leads on the design and delivery of the Annual Audit report, which provides a yearly analysis on the provision and usage of domestic abuse services in England, identifying current trends and providing recommendations for policy makers. Katherine also supports with wider organisational research and policy priorities, such as the What Works fund to advance the evidence base for the design of education about relationships for children and young people (CYP). Prior to Women’s Aid, Katherine has worked on the delivery of sexual and reproductive health programmes internationally, as well as for the Gender and Development Network and a consultancy firm specialised in social protection policy.
Additional Resources:
Women's Aid - Research and Reports - www.womensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/research/research-and-reports/
Domestic abuse is a public health crisis, causing a range of mental and physical health conditions and annually costing the NHS an estimated 2.3 billion pounds. Our Annual Audit 2024 found that the area that members were most commonly running without any dedicated funding (43.1%) was therapeutic support services. Many of these services receive a large proportion of referrals from the NHS, without receiving any health funding.
We are urging the government to adequately fund local health systems to meet the needs of survivors and local health systems to commission needs-led mental health support for survivors delivered by local, specialist domestic abuse services, and ensure any Mental Health Strategy includes actions to address the specific mental health needs of survivors. For more information about our key asks, view our policy briefing for Integrated Care Systems here. If you have any further questions about Women’s Aid’s research and policy work on domestic abuse and mental health, please get in contact with us at [email protected]
Speaker information:
Emma has worked at Women’s Aid in the Research & Evaluation team on the On Track project for nearly two years. On Track is Women’s Aid bespoke case management and outcomes monitoring system, and where services and survivors consent, their data feeds into a national dataset held by the On Track team at Women’s Aid. Emma works on the national dataset to inform Women’s Aid’s research, policy and campaigning work. Previously, Emma has a few years of quantitative social research experience and outreach work with refugee and asylum seeking women.
Katherine is a researcher specialised in gender and development, with over eight years of experience working in the UK and internationally across research, programme management and implementation. At Women’s Aid, Katherine leads on the design and delivery of the Annual Audit report, which provides a yearly analysis on the provision and usage of domestic abuse services in England, identifying current trends and providing recommendations for policy makers. Katherine also supports with wider organisational research and policy priorities, such as the What Works fund to advance the evidence base for the design of education about relationships for children and young people (CYP). Prior to Women’s Aid, Katherine has worked on the delivery of sexual and reproductive health programmes internationally, as well as for the Gender and Development Network and a consultancy firm specialised in social protection policy.
Additional Resources:
Women's Aid - Research and Reports - www.womensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/research/research-and-reports/