Women's Centre

In 2019 we opened Rosie Centre - the only Women’s Centre in Essex.

There is something quite unique about the Rosie Centre, it's more than a building, it's a woman only safe space. The work at the Rosie Centre places the woman at the centre of support and allows a response to the realities of women's experience which is crucial for both physical and psychological safety.

The Rosie Centre provides women with a safe and homely space in which to access gender-specialist support services. It is a ‘one-stop-shop’ offering group and one-to-one work covering domestic and sexual abuse support services (including our Triple RRR therapy based programme), counselling, substance misuse, housing and homelessness, legal and money advice surgeries, health visiting, parenting support, education and employment, life coaching and general emotional & physical wellbeing.

The Rosie Centre runs on a time-table, these are the current active sessions:

Streets2Homes Drop in – a Charity in Harlow that supports individuals whom are homeless or are facing homelessness. Streets2Homes is currently supporting Safer Places to empower single women to secure accommodation after refuge. This drop in can be used for advice around homelessness and housing.

Knitting and Crochet Circle – this is an activity based group to support women who may be isolated and otherwise have no other support network. It’s also can be used to develop a new skill to aid in recovery.

Triple R – a trauma-informed, cognitive behavior therapy based course. To enable victim/survivors to recognise abuse and its impacts on them and their children and support them to develop a safer future for themselves.

Peabody – a Bookable drop in day to gain short-term support service to people who are experiencing problems that are impacting their health, financial and housing wellbeing

Citizens Advice Bureau – Offers advice and helps solve problems, including debt, benefits, employment, and immigration.

Legal Advice Surgery – a drop in legal advice service for support on divorce, injunctions and much more.

Domestic Abuse – a Safer Places drop in session to get advice and support if you are experiencing any form of domestic abuse, or want some advice on your options regarding domestic abuse.

To contact the Rosie Centre please email [email protected] or call our helpline 03301 025 811 and quote 'The Rosie Centre',

We have plans to open another Women’s Centre soon.

Latest

DASH training 02/12/2020

DASH – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
DASH training 07/12/2020

DASH – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
DASH training 06/11/2020

DASH – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
Trustee

This is a great volunteering opportunity for an individual committed to working towards a world where everyone lives a life free from abuse and fear, within an organisation that is passionate and focused on bringing about positive and long-lasting change to the lives of adults and children impacted by abuse.

Support for Female Offenders

We work to empower women, to work alongside them building skills to help them on a journey to recovery and independence and to reduce re-offending.
Therapeutic Support

What is Therapeutic Support? We understand that survivors of domestic and sexual abuse can benefit from therapeutic support. The types of therapeutic support that we provide are all evidenced to aid recovery from trauma and are listed below.
Outreach

The Safer Places outreach teams are made up of professional staff offering short to medium term support to women and men affected by domestic and sexual abuse in the community. Our teams offer information, advocacy and specialist services to increase safety and meet a range of needs – these can include ongoing safety concerns, emotional or housing support, legal options, reporting to the police, help around child contact, access to benefits and financial advice.

Live Chat Launch

Safer Places launches new Live Chat service. The new service enables anyone experiencing abuse to chat directly with a member of the Safer Places team. The measures announced to tackle coronavirus (COVID 19) have seen day to day life change dramatically and undoubtedly made it harder for people to access support services as survivors are isolated with abusers with small windows of opportunity to speak. This new service will give survivors the opportunity to access support discreetly.
Safer Places response to the Domestic Abuse Bill second reading announcement

The Domestic Abuse Bill will return to Parliament tomorrow, Tuesday 28th April. Janet Dalrymple, CEO of Safer Places said “We are pleased to see the bill progressing through parliament, especially during this particularly worrying time for survivors of abuse"
Family Life in Refuge

Hello there! My name is Lauren Taylor and I work for Safer Places as a Senior Family Domestic Abuse Practitioner (I know, what a mouthful right?). Thankfully when it comes to working with the amazing kids within the refuges I just introduce myself as someone wanting to make them feel as safe and happy as possible, that usually goes down a little better! So I was asked by one of my lovely colleagues to write a blog……and after several days of researching what a blog actually is, here I am.
Ask for J Campaign

Today Safer Places launch the ‘Ask for J’ campaign across Essex. As local businesses begin to re-open their doors to members of the community the ‘Ask for J’ campaign opens the door to support for those experiencing abuse.
Safer Places receives emergency funding to bolster refuge service provision

Safer Places receives £15,000 emergency funding from Essex Community Foundation to bolster refuge service provision
Safer Places response to the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill

Safer Places respond to the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill. Rachel Millar, Senior Policy Officer for Safer Places said: “Safer Places are pleased to see the Bill progress through parliament, especially during this worrying time when urgent action is needed to protect survivors. We were particularly pleased to hear just how many MP’s spoke with passion and championed the voices of survivors’ and children whist highlighting matters of concern not currently addressed within the Bill.
Safer Places receives emergency COVID 19 funding
Running Refuges - The Risk and Impact of COVID 19

It is almost 6 months now since on March 13th I sat with my colleagues Jayne and Allison and talked about what would happen if this new virus took hold. The death toll in the UK had risen to 11 that day and there had been a surge in infections taking the total infected across the UK to almost 800. We laughed a fair bit – partly because what we were talking about seemed unthinkable and partly because we were nervous.
Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 Part 2

The Domestic Abuse Bill has now passed through the House of Commons stage and is one step closer to becoming law having been introduced to the House of Lords; this is a formality and takes place without any debate. The date for the second hearing, where the bill will be considered, has not yet been announced.
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