Domestic violence agencies in Camden
Camden Multi-Agency Domestic Violence Forum
The forum covers the whole borough and brings together all agencies working in the area of domestic violence. Part of its aims is to help and improve partnership working amongst the various agencies in Camden who address domestic violence issues.
Forum meetings cover issues ranging from the law and policing through to work with ethnic minority communities, refuge provision, children and mental health. The Forum has produced pamphlets in Albanian Somali, Spanish, Bengali, Arabic, French
Contact the Multi-Agency Domestic Violence Forum
Camden Safety Net
Camden Safety Net provides a holistic response to domestic violence in an attempt to reduce repeat victimisation of women and their children. Camden Safety Net provides services to survivors and their families across the borough.
Three incident workers, one of whom speaks Sylheti and uses British Sign Language, work closely with the Police Community Safety Unit at Holborn to give support and advice to survivors linking them to relevant services, such as housing and legal services, as well as confidence building courses.
Camden Safety Net provides individual counselling for women and their children. Services for male perpetrators include a weekly group to challenge their abusive behaviours and look at alternatives. They also provide services to male victims of domestic violence and to Gay men.
The project has produced information leaflets in the following languages: English, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Spanish, Bengali, Albanian, Somali, Turkish, and Portuguese. A Personal Safety Plan has been produced in English and Bengali. All services are free.
Read more about Camden Safety Net
Camden Womens Aid
Camden Womens Aid is part of the Womens Aid Federation of England; it provides both refuge and outreach services in Camden. It is dedicatead to providing care and a full range of services for women and their children, enabling them to live lives free of domestic abuse. The services offered include:
- two refuges, able to accommodate a total of seventeen family units
- six second stage flats within the borough, available for families to move into fron a refuge pending an offer of appropriate accommodation
- full-time children’s services co-ordinator to work with children on a one-to-one basis and in groups
- a legal and advice service for women experiencing domestic violence – a solicitor is employed at this project
- floating support service – a support service forn women living in Camden who have experienced , or are experiencing , domestic violence
Beverley Lewis House
A specialist project for women with learning disabilities who are escaping from various forms of abuse.
The aims and objectives of Beverley Lewis House are "to provide a safe house for women with learning disabilities to move on from their abuse and gain confidence in themselves by having control and empowerment in their choice of lifestyle".