DayBreak Family Group Conferences

The Daybreak DOVE Programmes
Our DOVE Programmes use family group conferences to address situations of domestic violence. The key aim of the DOVE programmes is to enable families to make their own plans that will help keep everyone safe.

A family group conference acts against the secrecy of the abuse by enhancing knowledge and the number of people who know what has been happening. It draws on the strength of the extended family and friendship network for support, information and resources. It brings together, at one place and at one time, agencies who can offer professional resources.

The Dove Programme in Basingstoke - Project History
FGCs have been used in a Canadian initiative to address situations of domestic abuse where they achieved encouragingly good results. The researchers of this seminal work, Professor Joan Pennell and Professor Gale Burford are now the patrons of Daybreak. They advised and helped the start of similar work in the Dove Programme in Basingstoke. They worked with representatives of agencies in Basingstoke interested in developing services addressing domestic abuse. The multi-agency Steering Group was formed..

In 2000 Daybreak FGC was commissioned to manage the implementation of the Dove programme in Basingstoke. It began taking referrals at the beginning of 2001. Since then the project has had contact with well over three hundred families. With additional funding from the Children’s Fund the project is now able to take referrals that come directly from the community. This inevitably helps the project to work with families at a time when prevention is possible as well as in situations of crisis.

What is the Referral Criteria and Who Can Refer?
The Dove Programme in Basingstoke takes referrals from any statutory or voluntary agency, community group or family member, including children and young people who live in the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane and experience domestic abuse in its widest interpretation of physical, emotional, psychological, financial or sexual and has at least one child.

There are two new Dove programmes: one is based in Bournemouth and Poole, and the other is in Portsmouth. They will be based on our experience with the work in Basingstoke.

Contact the DOVE Programme in Basingstoke:

Daybreak Dove Programme Manager - Alison Powney
Unit 4, Vicarage Farm Business Park, Winchester Road,
Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 7HD
Telephone 023 8069 6644 or 07901 655666
Email alisonpowney@daybreakfgc.org.uk

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www.daybreakfgc.org.uk The website of Daybreak Family Group Conferences. Charity no. 1077607 Company no. 378026.

The name 'Daybreak' is translated from the Maori word 'Puao-te-ata-tu'.
This was the title of the report from which the concept of family group conferences first began.

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The Daybreak DOVE Programmes Our DOVE Programmes use family group conferences to address situations of domestic violence. The key aim of the DOVE programmes is to enable families to make their own plans that will help keep everyone safe. A family group conference acts against the secrecy of the abuse by enhancing knowledge and the number of people who know what has been happening. It draws on the strength of the extended family and friendship network for support, information and resources. It brings together, at one place and at one time, agencies who can offer professional resources. The Dove Programme in Basingstoke - Project History FGCs have been used in a Canadian initiative to address situations of domestic abuse where they achieved encouragingly good results. The researchers of this seminal work, Professor Joan Pennell and Professor Gale Burford are now the patrons of Daybreak. They advised and helped the start of similar work in the Dove Programme in Basingstoke. They worked with representatives of agencies in Basingstoke interested in developing services addressing domestic abuse. The multi-agency Steering Group was formed.. In 2000 Daybreak FGC was commissioned to manage the implementation of the Dove programme in Basingstoke. It began taking referrals at the beginning of 2001. Since then the project has had contact with well over three hundred families. With additional funding from the Children’s Fund the project is now able to take referrals that come directly from the community. This inevitably helps the project to work with families at a time when prevention is possible as well as in situations of crisis. What is the Referral Criteria and Who Can Refer? The Dove Programme in Basingstoke takes referrals from any statutory or voluntary agency, community group or family member, including children and young people who live in the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane and experience domestic abuse in its widest interpretation of physical, emotional, psychological, financial or sexual and has at least one child. There are two new Dove programmes: one is based in Bournemouth and Poole, and the other is in Portsmouth. They will be based on our experience with the work in Basingstoke. Contact the DOVE Programme in Basingstoke: Daybreak Dove Programme Manager - Alison Powney Unit 4, Vicarage Farm Business Park, Winchester Road, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 7HD Telephone 023 8069 6644 or 07901 655666 Email alisonpowney@daybreakfgc.org.uk Support Our Charity HOME \| CONTACT \| NEWS & EVENTS \| LINKS \| ABOUT DAYBREAK \| VALUES STATEMENT \| ABOUT FGCs DAYBREAK PROGRAMMES \| DOVE \| BLUEBIRD \| FAMILY STORIES \| YOUR COMMENTS TRAINING & CONSULTATION \| VACANCIES \| DONATIONS \| EMAIL headoffice@daybreakfgc.org.uk www.daybreakfgc.org.uk The website of Daybreak Family Group Conferences. Charity no. 1077607 Company no. 378026. The name 'Daybreak' is translated from the Maori word 'Puao-te-ata-tu'. This was the title of the report from which the concept of family group conferences first began. Webdesign by www.summerlandstudios.co.uk \| hq@summerlandstudios.co.uk Photographs courtesy of Stock.xchng www.sxc.hu and copyright of the individual creators © 2009