PROJECT
Do it Different 4 Girls
FUNDING
Requires five hours weekly over 10 weeks for two local authority staff, plus time for home visits
BACKGROUND
Wakefield Council started running the Do it Different group for young men in 2009 in response to concerns about teenage boys' violence towards their mothers. It was initiated by the council's violence prevention officer Simon Roe and domestic abuse co-ordinator Sally Fawcett, then the youth offending team's lead supporting families practitioner. Domestic abuse charity the Rosalie Ryrie Foundation helped develop the programme.
The girls' version has been run by the council-run Castleford Early Help Hub and its youth work team since summer 2015, after a pilot the previous year. It has supported 24 girls to date.
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