Health & Equality Capacity Training for the women’s voluntary & community sector

Imkaan has been commissioned by the Women’s Health and Equality Consortium to deliver a series of health and equality capacity training sessions:

Wednesday 5th June 2013 - MANCHESTER

Tuesday 11th June 2013 - LONDON 

Tuesday 18th June 2013 - BIRMINGHAM

Tuesday 25th June 2013 - SHEFFIELD

Wednesday 17 July 2013 - BRISTOL 

COURSE CONTENT:

  • Strategies for engaging with Health & Wellbeing Boards and Clinical Commissioning Groups
  • Linking your work to the local priorities on health and wellbeing 
  • Demonstrating & evidencing your contribution to health outcomes
  • Contributing to Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategies
  • Building local networks of women’s organisations 

To book contact:  janet@imkaan.org.uk  or ring 0782 7878 143

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Job Opportunity at the Kiran Project, London

Advocacy & Resettlement Worker

2½ year fixed term part-time contract    

21 hours per week

Salary: £15,312 incl. ILW         

must be educated to “A” level or equivalent

The post holder will be responsible for providing resettlement support to women and children leaving the refuge, advice, assistance and counselling to BAMER women facing domestic violence and homelessness, advocate and raise public awareness of domestic violence and its impact on BAMER women and children

Applicants will need to have a current CRB

For all the above posts the ability to speak at least 1 Asian language is essential as is the understanding of domestic violence and its effects on BAMER women and children.

Due to the nature of the project the post is only open to women.

The post is funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.

NB These posts are advertised under section 5 2 (D) of the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Sex Discrimination Act under section 7 2 (E) 1975

Closing date for applications is 5.00pm Friday 17th May 2013

For an application pack please email: Kiran.admin@kiranproject.org.uk or telephone: 020 85581986

Kiran Project is a registered charity 1114148 & Company Limited by Guarantee No 5727907

 

I could open up and expose my vulnerabilities (ignorance, assumptions, and thoughts on diversity issues) be challenged, supported and nurtured all at once and not feel bad about it. I think this in itself says something about how the trainers were able to hold this and facilitate this so well.
Participant, Imkaan Train the Trainer accredited course, February 2013

New resource available, "The Road to Sustainability - Summary findings: A review of Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) organisations working with women on health and gender-based violence"

This updated summary was produced by Imkaan. 

This is a summary report of The Road to Sustainability, a piece of research commissioned by the Women’s Health and Equality Consortium (WHEC) in 2010. The WHEC is a coalition of women’s organisations who are a strategic partner of the Department of Health. The WHEC was set up to improve engagement between statutory health bodies and the women’s third sector to ensure that the diverse needs and experiences of women and girls are reflected within health and social care policy.

This summary report provides an overview of the current situation of BMER women’s organisations and other specialist health services. The primary focus of the study was on small specialist BMER women’s organisations that work in the area of violence against women and girls (VAWG) including domestic and sexual violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation and ‘honour-based’ violence. The research identifies key issues and challenges which are having an impact on the resilience and sustainability of the women’s health and social care voluntary sector. The research aims to inform and assist commissioners who are developing their thinking on the commissioning of BMER specialist services within the health and social care sector.

Source: imkaan.org.uk

Briefing: Model Outcomes Framework and Service Standards for Violence Against Women and Girls services

  • Women’s Aid and Imkaan in partnership are developing a model outcomes framework for survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and, based on this framework, are issuing new National Service Standards for VAWG Services.
  • The outcomes framework will serve multiple purposes. At a local level, organisations will be able to continuously identify survivor needs and develop their services accordingly, ensuring improved responses to VAWG . The framework will also provide a set of survivor-identified outcomes to inform funders’ commissioning processes.
  • At a national level, the outcomes framework will enable nationwide data collection to build a clear evidence base of the nature and extent of VAWG, to assess the effectiveness of the range of support and interventions available, and to provide an opportunity for benchmarking and best practice development.
  • The service standards will serve as a set of guidelines for commissioners and funders looking to fund and/or evaluate services. They will further enable sector-wide improvement, service responsiveness and development.
  • The outcomes framework and service standards will have an integrated human rights framework to ensure services and interventions are human rights focused and are in line with national and  international duties to protect survivors,  prevent VAWG, and to improve justice responses to survivors through partnership working.
  • We are working with voluntary sector organisations with specialisms across the equalities strands to ensure outcomes of survivors with protected characteristics are encompassed in the framework.
  • We are additionally sharing information and knowledge with Respect, a national membership organisation that provides helpline support to male victims of domestic abuse, with a view to enabling the development of a male survivors’ outcome framework. This is in response to emerging evidence of the different needs of male survivors and therefore the different service responses required.
  • The outcomes framework and service standards are being developed in on-going consultation with support staff, management, and survivor representatives from Imkaan and Women’s Aid member organisations. The draft outcomes framework will be presented at Women’s Aid conference in July 2013.
  • For more information contact the Capacity Building team:  Camille Kumar , Katy Taylor or Janet McDermott: info@ayaproject.org.uk