Women

Black & Minority Ethnic Women
Work To Improve Agency and Community Responses

LIAP worked in partnership with other agencies to improve awareness of the additional issues and barriers facing black and minority ethnic women experiencing domestic violence. This involved consulting with women to develop a range of projects, events, community work and training courses to identify good and bad practice issues in providing support to black and minority ethnic women.

In April 2001, the Working It Out Together seminar for black women was held to highlight current issues and to consult with black and minority ethnic women on future priorities. LIAP is planning to run another seminar in 2004 and is progressing the following areas of work:

· A Black Women’s Working Group to promote good practice at all levels. This comprises representatives with responsibility for developing work with black women experiencing violence from men they know.

· A Black Women’s Domestic Violence Forum - this will provide opportunities for black women supporting black women experiencing domestic violence to attend training sessions, network, consult on good and bad practice issues and receive support in a black women only setting.

Education programmes were piloted with black women in Leeds with the aim of offering a learning environment to discuss domestic violence and identifying ways of improving community support. Specific programmes for African Caribbean women, Asian women and programmes in community languages have also been developed.

An annual seminar was organised to highlight particular issues affecting various Black and Minority Ethnic groups of women. (see download below for information on this years event)
Training

A one-day, multi-agency training course, ‘Issues Facing Black & Minority Ethnic Women Experiencing Violence From Men They Know’ is delivered every three months as an additional module to LIAP's existing awareness and good practice training.