SafeLives, Improvement Service and Resilience Learning Partnership have been awarded funding by the Scottish Government to work in partnership with survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and trauma.
Our aim is to help ensure that local authorities and other community planning organisations have the knowledge, confidence, and tools they need to embed survivor voice into local system and service design processes in a robust, trauma-informed and meaningful way.
The project will be supported and overseen by the SafeLives Authentic Voice Panel, a group of women with lived experience of domestic abuse dedicated to ensuring that survivor voice is at the heart and start of services, policy, and strategy.
What we’ll do
- Support women with experience of domestic abuse and other forms of complex trauma to use their experiences to help shape the pathways to support and service delivery.
- Enable professionals working across a wide range of policy areas to embed survivor voice and lived experience into system and service design processes in a high quality, sustainable and trauma-informed way.
- Help decision-makers to see how meaningful change can be achieved, and compelled to act, through seeing living examples, having access to evidence & hearing diverse voices of people with lived experience.
How we’ll do it
As this is a project created and shaped by survivors and lived experience, we will be guided by what we hear. Some of our activities will include:
- An initial discovery exercise to gather a picture of best practice
- Developing and co-creating tools and resources with women with lived experience of VAWG, trauma and adversity, to make sure pathways and support best meet their needs
- Facilitating a series of deep dive workshops with stakeholders to understand better what areas need to carry out lived experience work.
- Producing a library of engaging content to highlight key learning and examples of good practice in embedding lived experience.
Authentic Voice website
The new Authentic Voice website brings together the work of the project over the last year. The website includes:
- Learning from the discovery exercise which looked at how survivor voice and lived experience is used in organisations across Scotland
- Videos and key messages from the project launch event
- Learning and videos from our series of deep dive workshops
- Episodes of the AV podcast, produced by the Resilience Learning Partnership
- The opportunity to sign up to the mailing list to receive the upcoming newsletter
- Contact information for project partners
Visit Authenticvoice.scot
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