The GLDVF becomes AVA

The Greater London Domestic Violence Project (GLDVP) has extended its geographical and thematic remit to become AVA (Against Violence and Abuse). AVA is a national second tier service working to end all forms of violence against women and girls. This will mean that we are able to provide our training, advice, information and consultancy services to organisations based across the UK.
 
The new website is: www.avaproject.org.uk

Building on the success and achievements of the GLDVP the key aims of AVA are:

• - To challenge, enable, encourage and support all agencies and communities to contribute to achieving our vision of a world free from violence against women and girls.
• - To offer a range of high quality and expert services to facilitate specialist and generic agencies to contribute towards our vision.  
• - To identify and fill gaps in the field, find innovative solutions to current and emerging situations and inspire an effective strategic approach to reducing and preventing violence against women and girls. 

How we can help you! We can provide the following services to your organisation:

• - Strategic planning
• - Partnership development
• - Drafting protocols and SLAs
• - Mentoring and coaching
• - Mapping exercises
• - Service evaluations
• - Writing documents, leaflets and booklets
• - Research
• - Survivor consultations

We also have a wide range of new training courses including:

• - From domestic violence to vawg – mapping the journey
• - Safeguarding children living with parental substance use and domestic violence
• - Recovering from the impacts of domestic violence (unresolved anger, ptsd)
• - Safeguarding against forced marriage and so called honour based violence
• - Sexual violence, drugs and alcohol
• - Improving your relationship with service users through counselling techniques
• - Adolescents and relationship abuse
• - Working with domestic violence perpetrators within a substance use agency

We also produce guidance on a range of VAWG issues which can be found in the resources section of our website.

• The Co-ordinated Community Response Model – an online toolkit - The CCRM was designed as a blueprint against which local services could map their provision for domestic violence services in order to assess their current response and identify any gaps. This toolkit will provide you with guidance, research and examples of projects and initiatives to assist in creating a more comprehensive and stronger interagency response www.ccrm.org.uk

For more information, visit the AVA Website.