Cardiff Womens Aid are interested in networking with other local services to help drive and lead change around gender-based violence. Poppy Camp who is our colleague and manager of the children and young persons team in Cardiff is wanting to build connections to ensure that these projects include some of the following:
- Preventative / Awareness- raising creative programmes to coach and support children and young people to develop their own programmes based on their interests and needs. These programmes need to be flexible to allow innovation and children and young people to explore their own ideas. This can be done by engaging in different mediums through music production, film, theatre, art, writing, dancing, partnership working etc. The aim of these programmes is to help children and young people with their confidence, skills and future outlook.- Policy / Campaigning: mentoring and coaching support for children and young people to participate and influence local, regional and national policy. This may be through integration with existing children and young people mentoring programmes like Future Generations Office and/or Youth Boards. (Integration with existing CYP mentoring programmes e.g. Future Generations Office / youth boards
- Working alongside youth justice to take misogyny/ toxic masculinity/ by standing; This could mean working alongside youth groups to provide interventions to those who are perpetrating abuse to each other and provide education around healthy relationships/ keeping yourself emotional and physically safe.
If any of the above interest or you feel it is already within your current remit of work, could you please reach out to Poppy (Poppy Camp – poppy.camp@cardiffwomensaid.org.uk). I think this would be an amazing opportunity to really create some amazing work that is needed for the most vulnerable children and young people in our areas.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
We hope to hear from you soon,