648 research outputs found
Peer Mentoring, Women With Complex Needs, Research and Application
No full textBlog post outlining the need and interest in examining peer mentoring with women with multiple and complex needs. There is a sizeable population of women in England who experience significant disadvantage, with overlapping complex and multiple needs. Over a million women in England have experienced physical and sexual abuse. Many experience multiple disadvantages such as homelessness, addictions, imprisonment or experience mental health conditions. One such method of engaging women with complex needs could be the use of a peer mentor. This short blog post considers the research into this supportive strategy and how research is needed in this area to prove efficacy or otherwise
Full Cooperation: Zero Violence : Challenge of Large Scale Multi-agency Training in a Different Cultural Context
No full textA conference presentation outlining EU funded two year training project with Malta's Ministry for European Affairs and Equality to train 700 professionals from all statutory, NGO and third sector organisations across Malta in gender based awareness, domestic violence and multi agency best practice.
Risk assessment, risk management and introducing Malta's own Multi Agency Risk Assessment Meeting processes to reduce risk of serious harm and femicide
The power of peer mentoring in the survivor's healing process
No full textUnderstanding what peer mentoring is and its benefits. Addressing the gaps in survivors' service provision and evidence of peer mentoring and the positive impact on victims and survivors.
This presentation represents the doctoral research undertaken by Dr Beverley Gilbert, along with her own practice in the VCSE sector supporting women surviving abuse and trauma
Letter from Beverley Tucker to his sister, Brooke, dated January 14, 1843.
No full textNathaniel Beverley Tucker, an American author, legal scholar, and political essayist, writes to his sister Brooke, discussing his debt and loans from the bank, dated July 14th, 1843.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1198/thumbnail.jp
Peer mentoring with women who experience multiple and complex disadvantage after trauma and abuse
No full textThis presentation combines doctoral research from Beverley Gilbert coupled with her practice experiences of delivering women’s peer mentoring for the past decade within a community ‘by and for’ peer support and peer mentoring organisation, run by women surviving abuse for women who experience multiple and complex disadvantage.
This research study is framed within feminist qualitative research. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to consider the findings from the data collected from 24 interviews with organisational decision makers, peer mentors and mentees. The findings from this study identify that one-to-one peer mentoring is a complex form of community level support that provides a welcome approach from the more formal, statutory,
community provision many women with multiple and complex disadvantage experience. Women within this study found agencies difficult to reach and voiced their frustrations that there were gaps in service provision that failed to meet the needs of women within this group in the community.
One to one peer mentoring provides a supportive and caring environment within the community where women can share their knowledge and can build meaningful, trusting relationships with other women within a community of strength (Gilbert, 2023). Peer mentoring can help to build a sense of inclusion amongst women who share lived experience and empower them to take collective action to address the systemic issues affecting their lives, to confront the perceived lack of appropriate support available in communities and to come together as a community of strength. Women participating in the research study undertaken by Beverley Gilbert advise that peer mentoring provides an essential ‘bridge’ between the lack of service provision for longer term community support according to the expressed needs of women surviving
domestic and sexual abuse. This supports their recovery and growth following on from sexual violence and
abuse, creating an inclusive caring space to belong
Multi Agency Risk Assessment Meeting Guidance and Protocol Document
No full textA multi agency risk assessment meeting (MARAM) guidance and protocol document for the Ministry of European Affairs and Equality in Malta.
This document was written by Beverley Gilbert to allow the Malta MARAM process to commence safely in 2019. Training for the document was delivered to 700 multi agency professionals during 2017/18 as part of an EU funded project organised by MEAE with training delivered by the Centre for Violence Prevention, University of Worcester
Evaluation of the Open2Change Behaviour Change programme
No full textAn evaluation report following research undertaken by: Dr Beverley Gilbert, Amy Johnson and Dr Mikahil Azad from Criminology at the University of Worcester.
This report presents the voice of those delivering the programme and experiencing the programme as men who have abused intimate partners. It evaluates the aims of the programme, the safety and effectiveness of the programme and concludes with recommendations regarding consolidation, future improvement and data collection/evaluation. It also details the skills and work undertaken by team members, including the programme author Louisa Wrighton.
This report is the property of Society Without Abuse in Swindon
Butler, Beverley Ann (Thomas). Interview with Beve Butler about her early life growing up in Grand Falls Windsor and Lethbridge.
No full textOral history interview with Beverley Ann Butler conducted by Dale Jarvis. Beve Butler talks about her father's work with the railway; her family moving to Lethbridge with her father as station manager for the Bonavista branch railway; memories of the school in Lethbridge; a one room school with no electricity or water; grades one to eleven in one room; difference between life in Lethbridge and Grand Falls; describes how families got houses in Grand Falls; design of houses in Grand Falls; condition of the railway station when they arrived; mice and cats; description of station manager’s house, office, and station, bathroom and toilet; need for station to be refitted, and renovation work on the station and house; memories of living in a railway car while work was completed; gravity flow 500 gallon water tank to provide running water in the house, operated by a pump; difference between life then and now; children’s recreation and play, fishing from the wharf; church life in the community; Salvation army tambourines; helping with a local dairy farm; sliding in winter, using sheets of canvas; games that children played - King William Was King George’s Son - ring game; Little Sally Saucer; Red Rover; a version of baseball; losing balls into the marsh; Christmas memories; Janneying and Mummers; 12 nights of Christmas; fruitcake and syrup; wearing her father’s long johns; wearing curtains to cover the face; disguising one’s self for janneying; janney voice and silence as a way to hide who you were; guessing game with adults; description of Christmas Eve church service; differences between Anglican and Methodist churches; United Church service; music; hymns; decorating the Christmas tree with glass ornaments; gifts; food traditions; fish or chicken for Christmas meal; date squares and desserts; memories of her mom’s cooking; her father’s piano playing; parents going to a party in Clarenville, leaving the children behind, and then getting stuck in Clarenville for three days during a snow storm, leaving the children in charge of the station, making a fancy lunch for the section men working on the railway who dug them out and using up every bit of food and alcohol her mother had in the house; almost killing her brother with Aspirin; carving turnips for jack o’lanterns for Hallowe’en; building fires for Bonfire Night, with potatoes in the fire; mischief; moving back to Grand Falls; finishing school; going to Memorial University of Newfoundland as a student; studying Primarly/Elementary education; her first teaching job; teaching Junior High in Grand Falls; teaching all grades, working at Board Office, retiring as a Principal; her love of teaching; teaching grade five English and Remembrance Day; school project with war brides
Survival Takes Time - a Range of Services is Required for a Range of Women’s Needs
No full textBlogpost for the non partisan Women's Equality Party, their campaign 100 Days of May.
Beverley Gilbert considers that survival is a process that takes time, and as such, a range of women's services is required to meet the needs of women. We call on the government to fund specialist services for women surviving abuse that are designed specifically to address the needs of specific groups of women, recognising that not all women are the same and not all women want or need the same services.
Preventing violence against women and children includes helping women survive and rebuild their lives, and this process varies according to the particular circumstances of the individual woman. The government must rethink commissioning models to ensure that specialist services are available for all survivors
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