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Starting over.

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Thelnebriati · 25/02/2021 10:45

I thought I'd start a thread to discuss rebuilding women's services from the ground up.

The very broad strokes are;
What services are needed?
How can they be funded?
Who will run them and how will they be trained and paid?
How can we learn from past endeavours, what worked and what didn't.
How can we collect and preserve the information, and pass it on.
How can we protect women's resources for future generations? Or do we have to accept they could be taken from us at any time, and treat it as an ongoing project?
Can we come up with new models?

On this thread, lets try to focus on the future, not worry about current losses.
Someone might like to start a thread to record services that have been lost. It might serve as a useful warning to others.

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 25/02/2021 11:09

Can I put in a bid for real old-fashioned 'girls' work' (youth work) for our girls?

BuntingEllacott · 25/02/2021 11:08

Well, given that funding is the main issue, I think it would be brilliant to set up a fund to back up services for women.

We've all seen how sacrificially women have donated to the court cases to try and keep hold of what we have already. I don't think it's beyond us to set something up as a central fund so that every time a service is defunded because it doesn't serve the needs and desires of men, the shortfall can be met by a No Woman Left Behind fund.

PlanDeRaccordement · 25/02/2021 11:05

While agree violent offenders should go to prison if convicted, I do think some nonviolent offenders should also go to prison for more serious offenders such as human or drug trafficking, serious fraud, gross negligence resulting in loss of life and incitement/accessory to violence (eg getting a man to assault someone, paying an assassin to kill someone, using hate speech to start a riot in which violence occurs)

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Thelnebriati · 25/02/2021 11:00

Here's the speaking Out project;
womensaid.scot/project/speaking-out/

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Thelnebriati · 25/02/2021 10:58

Alternatives to prison are an interesting idea, they work best for non violent offenses and thats the majority of female prisoners.
It would also address the issue of children spending time in care because their mother couldn't pay a fine.

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Lammergeier · 25/02/2021 10:53

Alternatives to prison for the majority of female offenders.

SuperLoudPoppingAction · 25/02/2021 10:47

How we can learn from past endeavours - have a look at the 'speaking out' project which was an oral history project for Scottish women's aids 40th anniversary. Interviews with workers, volunteers, those who were supported have all been recorded from those there at the beginning to those involved more recently.

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Thelnebriati · 25/02/2021 10:47

I'll start. Women need;
Rape Crisis
Domestic violence shelters for women, and for women and children.
Housing for women, and for women and children.

And to thrive in society women need an income, childcare, healthcare, education, support and community.

What have I missed?

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