Stronger Futures Peer Group

For Women Recovering from Domestic Abuse

What is the Stronger Futures Peer Group?

Stronger Futures is a small, facilitated peer support group for women survivors of Domestic Abuse (between 8 – 10). It is a safe space to share your experiences, explore your feelings, and talk about what helped you to start your journey to recovery, re-building your life, taking strength from others around you who truly understand what you have been through.

How is the peer group run?

We can only accept clients who are no longer in the abusive relationship onto the Stronger Futures Peer Group.

The peer group runs for 12 weeks and is offered in two formats:

  1. Face-to-face in a small group setting or,

  2. Via zoom for those that either prefer this type of interaction or are restricted with time.   

Face-to-Face Group

Tuesdays 11:00am-12:30pm

It is a small peer-to-peer support group of survivors of Domestic Abuse (between 8 – 10) women, and a safe space to share your experiences, explore your feelings, your journey, and tips on what helped you to start your journey to recovery and re-building your life, taking strength from others around you who truly understand what you have been through.

Zoom Group

Fridays 11:00am-12:30pm

Stronger Futures Peer Group Zoom Recovery support from the impact of Domestic Abuse.

Tell me more about the peer groups

The group offers a mix of:

  • education

  • peer-to-peer discussion

  • interactive activities

  • videos and

  • A deep dive into Domestic Abuse.  

Many groups go on to continue to support each other long after the course has ended.

Course Aims

There is an educational element to the Stronger Futures Course.

Each week a new topic relating to domestic abuse will be discussed with the aim to help you understand the impact domestic abuse has had on a victim and those around them.

We will uncover:

  • the impact on children living in an environment where domestic abuse has taken place

  • the impact of trauma

  • how coercive controlling behaviour impacts you and changes your behaviours

  • red flags and warning signs of domestic abuse

  • learn how to build your self-esteem and confidence, and make friends

Course Modules

The course modules are:

  1. Introduction, who is abused, time-line to heal

  2. Signs and behaviours of domestic abuse

  3. Red flags, love-bombing, trauma bond

  4. Isolation, impact on family and friends

  5. Physical/sexual abuse, coercive controlling behaviour, non-fatal strangulation

  6. Emotional abuse and financial abuse

  7. Psychological abuse and the cycle of abuse

  8. Consequential abuse and stalking

  9. Post-separation abuse

  10. Impact on Children

  11. Obstacles to recovery looking at Housing, Finances and the Legal system

  12. Self-esteem, goal setting, supporting each other

Is Polish your preferred language?

Jesteś Polakiem?

We have translated our Stronger Futures program into Polish and deliver this at our service centre on a weekly basis, led by our Polish Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA) and Polish speaking volunteer

Przetłumaczyliśmy nasz program Stronger Futures na język polski i realizujemy go w naszym centrum obsługi co tydzień, prowadzonym przez naszego polskiego niezależnego doradcę ds. przemocy domowej i polskojęzycznego wolontariusza

The best way to register your interest in this service, is to complete our online Self-Referral form.

On the form, please select ‘Recovering from domestic abuse’ from the list of options.

Alternatively, you can call our main reception desk to express your interest in this service:
01243 697800