The Women's Safe Engagement and Recovery (WiSER) project is a partnership of specialist charities working to end male violence and abuse. It works with women who are frequently excluded from mainstream services and/or find it hard to engage with support. WiSER aims (with a psychologically and trauma-informed approach) to use assertive outreach to enable women to access support, increase their self-esteem, reduce their risk and make safe choices.

The partnership offers outreach activity, trauma-informed approaches, and flexible one-to-one and group support, which helps women to get the support they need.

Support is provided in English, Turkish, Farsi, Kurdish and Arabic.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

To be eligible to access this service, a woman must:

• be experiencing violence against women and girls (VAWG) (currently happening or only happening within the last three months)
• be aged 16 or over

She must also be experiencing at least four of the following forms of severe and multiple disadvantages:

• homelessness
• substance use
• mental health
• physical health issues
• insecure or uncertain immigration status
• affected by or at risk of sex work
• history of offending behaviour
• history of children being removed from her care and/or at risk of further removals

How to Refer