The Wish Centre
Black & Darwen District Without Abuse North West

Campaign Outcomes

(Please note campaign outcomes are updated monthly)

Training for Frontline Professionals includes:

• 2 x Multi agency trainings to 49 professionals
• Multi agency training was delivered to 21 practitioners: nurseries, safeguarding leads from schools, police, health and domestic abuse practitioners.
• Darwen School assemblies for year 7 and year 8 students with 10 teachers
• 2 youth workers at Youth Zone
• 4 x Secondary School workshops to teachers – 11
• 2 x sessions Domestic Abuse, Honour Based Abuse & Forced marriage awareness session at community centre – 34
• 1 x session Domestic Abuse, Honour Based Abuse & Forced Marriage awareness session at children’s centre – 20
• Leeds IDVA professionals training x 24
• Safeguarding practitioner training for professionals – 24
• Secondary school safeguarding leads training – Delivered a briefing session on Forced marriage & Honour Based Abuse to safeguarding leads from secondary schools and colleges including safeguarding input on Domestic Abuse, Forced marriage / Honour Based Abuse, Modern Slavery, CSE and Prevent – 70
• Practitioner training for heath, schools, social workers, children services and adult services- 20
• IDVA training – 24
• Women’s Group at Wish Centre – 12
• Blackburn Town Hall safeguarding training  x 21 professionals from health, schools, social workers from children services and adult services and housing providers attended the session. 

Schools/ University’s/ Colleges workshops and screenings

• 5 workshops on forced marriage with students attending Darwen Vale secondary school. A total of 130 students took part in the workshops.
• 20 Our Girl trained peer educators all from a sixth form college doing BTEC Health & Social care have completed Our Girl sessions with 80 students
• A workshop was held at Westholme Girls School, a private girls school, with a group of year 9’s with 15 students taking part in the workshop.
• St Mary’s College workshop to 20 students
• Get Set Group workshop delivered to 15 students
• 2 x DSL Secondary School 1:1 sessions
• Secondary school workshop – 10
• 2 x Darwen School assemblies for year 7 and year 8 students – 400 students and 10 teachers
• 3 x workshops at Youth Zone with 32 young people and 3 youth workers
• 2 x workshops in a secondary school with 30 students
• Everybody Centre young peoples drop in – 30
• 3 x workshops at Darwen Vale Secondary School  x 80 students
• Training 2000 working for young people – 20
• 6 x workshops by peer educators – 140 students
• 4 x workshops at St Wildred’s – 84 students
• 6 x secondary school workshops – 90 students
• 2 x secondary school assemblies – 500 students
• 2 x secondary school assemblies – 600 students
• 3 x secondary school workshops – 60 students
• 4 x secondary school workshops including a pupil referral unit  – 70 students 
• 2 x secondary school assemblies with screening x 550

Other Our Girl campaign activities

• Blackburn University Centre freshers fair screening film and distributing leaflets – 160
• We have raised awareness of the campaign in our local domestic abuse consortium meeting and a Voluntary sector forum meeting.
• Domestic Abuse strategic board and the Pan lancs Strategic board. We have also advised the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner.
• Raised the profile of the campaign through the White Ribbon campaign
• Burnley Football Ground conference – 200 delegates
• Distributed leaflets at the Prevent conference
• Distributed leaflets to managers attending the Pan Lancs Domestic Abuse board.
• Distributed leaflets at the Young people’s resource centre to 35 young people.
• Introduced the campaign at the Strategic Domestic Abuse board in Lancashire and the Blackburn Domestic Abuse Strategic board.
• Raised the profile of the campaign at the Domestic Abuse Strategic board alongside an update on the work around forced marriages in the area.
• Boulevard Centre Volunteer Fair – 80
• Blackburn University Centre Freshers Fair – 150
• Blackburn College Freshers Fair – 200

Our Girl Communications Outcomes 

• Lancashire evening telegraph feature with the Our Girl campaign highlighted x 12, 814
• Ongoing awareness raising via social media
• Our Girl promotions through the Day of the Girl campaign 2016
• Our Girl promotions through 16 Days of Activism campaign 2016

Our Girl materials

• Our Girl poster
• Our Girl leaflets
• On going materials distribution to schools, frontline professionals, networks and contacts through general awareness raising activities.