West End Women and Girls Centre workers train young people to run domestic violence awareness and support programme in education settings
More than 150 young people have been trained as champions in schools and colleges to deliver the award-winning programme
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A community-based peer education programme in Newcastle is supporting young women and girls that have experienced or survived domestic abuse.
The West End Women & Girls Centre, which launched the initiative in 2015, says the service helps those aged 11 to 25 affected by domestic abuse either in their personal relationships or within their own families.
As well as delivering one-to-one support sessions for young women, the centre’s peer educator team holds preventative domestic abuse and healthy relationship workshops at schools, colleges and youth groups. These county-wide events are used as an opportunity to recruit and train young domestic violence champions that go on to support their peers and run awareness events in their own settings.
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