Cookstown and Dungannon Women's Aid [NI]

Specific Interest Group:All children and young people

Age Group:
• Helping Hands Programmes, age 7-11 years.
• Transformers Programme age 8-12 yrs
• Heading for Healthy Relationships age 13-17 yrs

How are the Children and Young People involved?
Through ongoing therapeutic work with families, support is offered on an individual or group basis to children and young people. Prevention work is vital as it can help to change attitudes. Women’s Aid provide programmes in schools for young people to look at healthy and unhealthy relationships. These young people can voice their opinions and concerns in a safe and neutral forum. Evaluations have shown that many young people enjoy the programmes and would like more time for discussions.

Geographical Location
Mid Ulster and South Tyrone Areas.

Core aims of Women’s Aid Groups

To provide temporary refuge to women and their children suffering mental, physical or sexual abuse within the home.

To encourage the woman to take control of her own future, whether this involves returning home or beginning an independent life.

To recognise and care for the emotional needs of the children involved.

To offer support and advice to any woman who asks for it, whether or not she is living in a refuge and to offer supportive aftercare to women leaving the refuge.

To educate and inform the public, the media, the courts, social services and other agencies, always mindful of the fact that abused women are a direct result of the general position of women in our society.

Contacts
Martina Hemmings
Cookstown and Dungannon Women’s Aid
61 Molesworth Street,
Cookstown,
BT80 8PA

E-mail: womensaidcoosktown@hotmail.com
Tel:02886769300

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