Communities & CCR
The Communities and CCR Team’s vision is to transform how local communities and organisations respond to male violence against women and girls (MVAWG). We do this by promoting a whole system response to a whole person. We work to ensure increased visibility of hidden forms of MVAWG and discrimination, such as harmful practices.
We recognise that those best placed to support victim-survivors of MVAWG are often from the same communities who understand first-hand what it is like to belong to a marginalised group; that is why we advocate for fair and equitable partnerships between mainstream organisations and ‘by and for’ specialist agencies.
Our skills and experience in building equitable partnership, coordination, data analysis, training, and network building support us in our ambition to:
• Bring agencies together to improve responses to survivors
• Promote and support a survivor-centered approach
• Evolve and strengthen the CCR model
• Address the inequalities of the CCR
• Expand the CCR to ensure that no victims, survivors or communities are invisibilised
• Promote good practice and spotlight expertise
“Standing Together have consistently helped all of us, in this global effort to end violence in the lives of women and children, to think better, do better and in doing so create a better future.”
Ellen Pence, Praxis International, Duluth, Minnesota USA, creator of the CCR Mode
“One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone”
Bell Hooks
CCR Projects
Every agency has a responsibilty for identifying and supporting victim/survivors or DA & VAWG, their children and/or prepretrators. All agencies must work effectively internally and externally with partner agencies. The process by which this work is managed is known as the CCR
Communities Projects
We know that most survivors of abuse are likely to reach out to friends, family and community networks for help in the earliest stages of
abuse. Grassroots communities and faith groups have the power and potential to make a real difference in the lives of survivors and hold
perpetrators to account.
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