Pioneering at SafeLives
Our vision is to place the voice of people with lived experience at the heart of all we do to end abuse. To do this, we must co-create our approach and work closely with our group of experts by experience – the SafeLives Pioneers. It is Pioneers’ expertise and passion that makes our work meaningful, authentic and effective. Their vision should be interwoven into everything we do.
Pioneers, and a wider community of people with lived experience, can be involved in work through a number of ways:
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What have Pioneers been doing this year?
We are working in partnership with organisations in Manchester, Bolton and Sheffield to support local survivors to transform responses to domestic abuse in their area.
We recently completed a Pioneer-led partnership with the University of Central Lancaster on an e-learning package on domestic abuse entitled “Our Journey, Your Role” which directly links the experiences of survivors engaging in help with the knowledge professionals need to respond well, demonstrating the impact of domestic abuse on children.
We are working with the Institute for Addressing Strangulation to ensure the voices of survivors and those with lived experience are at the heart of our understanding of how best to respond to Non-Fatal Strangulation.
With the Vision Foundation, we are working with survivors, including survivors who have experienced sight loss, to develop training and a toolkit for professionals to understand the needs of survivors with sight loss.
