The BraveBox Initiative is our response to the cost-of-living crisis, ensuring we reach children living in high-risk households and send them the healing message of ‘you are not alone’.
The cost-of-living crisis is a stressful time for many people. For those experiencing domestic abuse, it can increase the risk of emotional and physical harm to the victim and their children. This can leave victims of domestic abuse with no choice but to stay in an unsafe home or face homelessness. The threat of poverty and homelessness, particularly where the victim is responsible for a child, are the predominant barriers to leaving an abusive relationship.
The cost-of-living crisis is exacerbating this issue and we have seen this in data retrieved from referrals and the increase in referrals for support.
We know that domestic abuse isn’t always physical. Perpetrators of domestic abuse are using concerns of financial hardship during the cost-of-living crisis as an extra tool for coercive control. We have seen this in victims having restricted access to money, food, clothes and loss of work and children being frequently absent from school.
Mummy and daddy fighting because of money.
We want to do this to acknowledge that children are victims in their own right, improve their ability to manage the demands of their home environment and reduce the risk of physical and emotional harm.
You can sponsor a BraveBox by clicking the button below:
To receive a Sponsorship pack and find out about our other Sponsorship opportunities email nathan@edshift.co.uk
If you know of a child in your school or organisation that would benefit from a BraveBox:
Please contact info@edshift.co.uk you can collect them from a number of BraveBox Drop Points across Calderdale or member of staff can deliver them to you. If you are based in central Halifax you can collect a BraveBox from EdShift@The YouthBase on Harrison Road.
If you would like to book onto our BraveBox Safety Planning Training, CLICK BELOW:
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