Association of Northern Empowered Women

Face 2 Face Freedom Programme

The Freedom Programme is a 12 week programme designed by Pat Craven. It evolved from her work with perpetrators of Domestic Abuse. The Freedom Programme examines the beliefs and attitudes which lead to abuse as well as it's effects on survivors. It aims to help survivors make sense of their experience and spot the warning signs so that they can protect themselves from future abuse.

The Freedom Programme is suitable for any woman 16 years or over who has experienced abuse at any time in her life, or who is still experiencing abuse.

Package includes:

• 12 x 2 hour group sessions for up to 20 people.
• Half an hour either side of the session for 1:1 support for participants on a drop in basis.
• Freedom Programme book and certificate for each participant.
• Feedback report on the effectiveness of the programme every 12 weeks that can be used for funding bids.

We can also offer additional 1:1 support for a cost of £25 per hour

Price: £200 per session or £2400 per 12 week programme. Plus £10 per participant one off charge for book and certificate.

Zoom Freedom Programme

12 x 1.5 hour sessions for up to 10 participants

All Zoom set up and invitations organised

Feedback report on the effectiveness of the programme every 12 weeks.

Price: £125 per session or £1500 per 12 week programme.

Face to Face The Power to Change

The Power to Change is a 14 week psycho-educational programme and support group for female survivors of domestic abuse. It was designed collaboratively by practitioners across five countries, including Women's Aid from the U.K. The programme is ideal as a follow on programme from Freedom Programme and its three main aims are:

• To change patterns of behaviour, accept responsibility to change and challenge beliefs about experiences
• To raise awareness of women's basic rights
• To build self esteem, self determination, confidence and empowerment

Package includes:

• 14 x 2 hour group sessions for a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12 participants
• 30 minutes either side of each session for 1:1 support for participants on a drop in basis.
• Certificate for each participant
• Handouts for participants, as required, for each session.
• Feedback and effectiveness report at the end of each 14 week programme that can be used for your funding bids.

We can also offer additional 1:1 support for a cost of £25 per hour

Price: £200 per session or £2800 for 14 week programme.

As with Freedom Programme we can offer The Power to Change on Zoom for £125 per session, min 3 participants, max 10.

Domestic Abuse Parenting Course.

We can also offer a ten week Domestic Abuse and Parenting course, based on You and Me, Mum, a programme devised by Women's Aid.

The programme is designed for mothers to help them understand the effects of domestic abuse on their children and to support them to help their children to recover well.

Package includes:

• 10 x 2 hour group sessions for a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12 participants.
• 30 minutes either side of the session for 1:1 support for participants on a drop in basis.
• Handouts for each participant at each session as required.
• Certificate for each participant
• Feedback and Effectiveness report on each 10 week programme that you can use for funding bids.

As with the other packages further 1:1 support can be provided at a cost of £25 per hour.

Price: £200 per session or £2000 per ten week programme

This programme is not available on Zoom

Me Time

Me Time is Anew's own in-house programme designed for women not quite ready to think about their experience of abuse and nervous about attending groupwork. It can be used as a great pre-cursor to the Freedom programme for women who don't feel they're quite ready, or for women who have completed the other groupwork programmes but aren't quite ready to “go it alone” Something rather beautiful happens during this group when women at different stages of their recovery support one another and do something fun together.

Only six weeks long and far more relaxed and informal than the other programmes. Me-Time takes the first half of the two hour session to explore the concept of identity. It is aimed at women who have experienced abuse and feel like they just don't know who they are anymore, but it does not explore the abuse itself, and in fact could be beneficial to any woman.

The second half of the session is a more social experience and is devoted to re-discovering our inner child. We spend it doing fun childhood activities: glueing and sticking, playing with Hamma Beads or Lego, making (and eating) cornflake cakes. Participants love this time devoted to themselves to do something fun and a bit silly just for an hour a week.

Package includes:

• 6 x 2 hour groupwork sessions
• 15 minutes informal time before and after each session for facilitated peer support or 1:1 support for participants.
• All materials provided for all the activities
• Certificate for each participant.
• Feedback and effectiveness report at the end of each six weeks that can be used for funding bids.

Price: £150 per session or £900 per six week programme.

Seminars

We can deliver seminars to your organisation in person or via Zoom. Each seminar includes a one hour presentation followed by a 30 minute Q&A session.

Price: £150 per session in person or £100 per session on Zoom. No maximum number of participants.

Seminars available on:

• An introduction to Domestic Abuse
• Myths surrounding Domestic Abuse
• The underlying beliefs and attitudes that lead to Domestic Abuse and how to tackle them.
• The effects of Domestic Abuse on Children
• The effects of Domestic Abuse on women: understanding survivor behaviour.
• How to deal with disclosures of domestic abuse and how to support the victim
• Creating a safe working environment for women in a post metoo world.

If you would like us to deliver a seminar on any other subject surrounding safeguarding women and children or around any form of Violence Against Women please contact us and we can tailor a bespoke seminar for you to meet your specific needs

Training.

We can offer half day or full day training courses on Domestic Abuse. Our training courses are engaging and interactive and can be delivered to groups of between 3 and 20 people.

Our half day programme offers the opportunity to understand what domestic abuse is, how it presents itself and some of the effects on survivors. It seeks to answer some of the most common questions around domestic abuse and challenges some of the most common myths surrounding domestic abuse.

Costs: £300 per course in person or £250 per course on Zoom.

Our full day programme additionally looks deeper at the effects of domestic abuse on both women and children and provides more information on how best to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse.

Price: £500 per course in person or £350 per course on Zoom.

We can also tailor our training packages to your specific needs, please contact us to discuss your requirements and the costs of this