Racism and other intersecting barriers to accessing safety and support
We need to work actively to make spaces and services safe and inclusive for women from all backgrounds and situations, and remove barriers to support due to migrant status, ethnicity, language, neurodiversity, disability and other aspects of lived experience.
Racism and other intersecting barriers to accessing safety and support
We need to work actively to make spaces and services safe and inclusive for women from all backgrounds and situations, and remove barriers to support due to migrant status, ethnicity, language, neurodiversity, disability and other aspects of lived experience.
Communities like ours need to work actively to provide safe spaces for women who have experienced domestic/sexual violence often in addition to immigration abuse, harmful practices such as FGM, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, trafficking and HBV/A perpetrated through varying cultural and social lenses by intimate partners, family members and or community members. A safe space may be a specialist service, or a respectful and anti-racist organisation providing help around domestic abuse. A safe space is often needed to address other barriers, particularly for women who are destitute and homeless, or living in unstable or unsafe housing without support networks. Safe spaces are needed by migrant women who also have complex immigration issues, no recourse to public funds, face racial discrimination and harassment, hate crime and economic exploitation. Being trauma informed also means properly listening to and hearing women’s and girls’ lived experience, in all its diverse, cultural and unique aspects, and shaping our understanding of safe spaces accordingly.
This service has saved my mental health and has provided a safe service whilst helping with coping mechanisms for the future.
- Lena
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Voices Services Team is closed for a Summer Break from Monday 19th August and will reopen on Monday 2nd September 2024
(Groups will start the following week) Please find details of other useful agencies here: And remember if you are scared / feel at risk of harm or are worried about someone else always call 999. Help for anyone feeling low: and In the meantime, Voices hope you can enjoy the lovely weather and relax a…
VOICES are looking for a team of wonderful people to join us for our Charity Skydive!
Help support our life-changing work by jumping out of a plane! You will need to fundraise a minimum of £350 to cover the cost of the jump but the sky is the limit!!! Email us with your interest and contact details at info@voicescharity.org and we will send you all the details.