A Feminist Leadership project from PARCS Family Action Supporting Young Women to be Leaders - disrupting Sexual Violence through Collective Relational Activism.
Portsmouth, England
Joined April 2020
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Spoken by 19 year old consultant from project catalyst at yesterday's "Power to Youth" event.
Denesha received a standing ovation from the audience following her opening speech about #leadership ending men's violence against women and #intersectionality #MVAWG #Portsmouth
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It was a fantastic opportunity for us to meet and hear of other organisations and projects across the district working alongside young people and #coproduction at the @blagravetrust event celebrating "Youth Power" - thank you so much for organising and bringing everyone together.
Young consultant, Denesha from PARCS @family_action project Catlayst, giving the first #inspirational speech @blagravetrust annual partners event yesterday with such a great response from the room to our co-produced campaign to raise awareness of abuse and #shrinktheelephant
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We had a great time @blagravetrust Annual partners event yesterday. Here's young consultant Denesha from PARCS @family_action project catalyst up front speaking about our co-designed #shrinktheElephant campaign to raise awareness of #sexualabuse #Portsmouth
It has been so powerful to hear from so many inspirational young voices at the @blagravetrust annual partners event around the topic of youth engagement and leadership and the power of lived experience in decision making #ShiftThePower
We love being invited to talk with the Chat Over Chai group in #Portsmouth and today Gemma from #Catalyst popped in with Ester, PARCS Domestic Abuse #counsellor to discuss responding to violence against women and girls and the importance of #VAWG as a priority for #Portsmouth
Our team will be attending the @CultureReframed virtual conference next weekend #TakingOnPorn from #Portsmouth #EVAWG #maleviolence
Did you know? 88% of scenes in top downloaded porn contain violence against women. Culture Reframed is #TakingOnPorn ~ Want to protect your children from growing up in a culture permeated with sexual violence? Attend our virtual conference 2-3 October culturereframed.org/conferen…
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We were angry and saddened to hear about the murder of Sabina Nessa and further reports of #maleviolence - as a team we have posted a snapshot of this film before and we call for #systemic change like many #feminist projects across the world for #VAWG to be taken seriously.
Our team has tuned in for this training by H.O.P.E @Hopetraining on supporting #travellerwomen #Roma #gypsy #women and the impact of #DomesticAbuse - a hue thank you for hosting this #awareness #Training
We have tuned in for this really important training - thank you for hosting H.O.P.E @Hopetraining
H.O.P.E will hosting @GypsyTravellerM this morning from 10am for the cross cultural training webinar on DA
These have been running since Feb 2021 and due to end in Nov 2021 evaluation from @CARe_UOS @alwaysalreadyun @docadisa already showing the learning 👍🏾
@safelives_
V powerful video from @Sistah_Space - please sign the petition. #Portsmouth
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We are supporting @BrookCharity #sexualhealthweek21 and Consent theme- we also deliver #youthled #educational workshops for local schools across #Hampshire #Portsmouth. Supporting #youngpeople to develop healthy, age-approriate respectful sex and relationships #RSE #SHW21
Our project lead, Gemma met up with Tessa from @blagravetrust today to explore #coproduction #youngpeople and youth leadership. Its always exciting to work with funders who understand and value the knowledge and skills of young people. Thank you Tessa for visiting #Portsmouth
Very powerful @flying_project thank you for making this and to all the #survivors 🙏 #CSA
Proud to release the film: Child Sexual Abuse - memories of school. Thank you so much to @flyingmonkeynet for producing and to @leaniekaleido for the music. Thank you to all of the survivors who had the courage to speak out. #CSA #newfilm
youtu.be/kQRaXz3Kx5I via @YouTube
We are playing a part in ending #modernslavery by supporting the Modern Slavery Partnership in #Hampshire @HantsPCC - young people from project catalyst capturing #photography to be featured in the #exhibition to raise awareness of #exploitation #HumanTrafficking #youthled
Young women were supported with the subject matter and to develop the content through PARCS @family_action team who provide #traumainformed #coproduction projects with young people in #Portsmouth and #Hampshire for more info:
📧 [email protected] #PARCS #catalyst
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Throughout the summer our weekly #consciousnessraising groups for young women have continued, in preparation for #VAWG projects launching next month. In last night's group we explored links between #ClimateCrisis and violence against women and girls, and #rapeculture #Portsmouth
A huge welcome to Claire Alldis who joined PARCS in April as the service merged with @family_action - find out more about her #leadership and #Feminism here in her first blog as Service Manager.
#sexualviolence #CSA #survivors #EVAW #portsmouth #Hampshire
family-action.org.uk/our-voi…
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It was great for some of the PARCS @family_action team to pop along to this and see partners from @Southerndas @AuroraNewDawn and @PompeySanctuary - really important work, and visibility for #survivors #DomesticAbuse #sexualviolence to seek help, especially after #lockdown
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"PARCS believe that a pro-active, community based approach is needed to prevent sexual violence."
This article from 2018 publicising PARCS work with events across the country using #bystander training to respond to #sexualviolence festival/ events #EVAW
noea.org.uk/ttk-welfare-parc…
Project #Catalyst lead, Gemma from the #PARCS team in #Portsmouth was very excited to get @miriamtaylor55 book delivered in the post this morning. This learning is shared throughout our team informing our understanding on #Trauma with #groups #youngwomen in the Community #EVAW
Do you want to work with young women from project catalyst?
Feminist?
Activist?
Interested in #feminist oral history?
Or have experience of designing projects to disrupt #rapeculture - check out our vacancies available via: family-action.org.uk/get-inv…
#Portsmouth #PARCS #EVAW
