Events

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Learning and Sharing Event on research findings including live poetry, 9th March 2023.

Engaging clergy to address domestic violence: International approaches 17th June 2021

Spirit and Solace: Black churches and Domestic Abuse (presentation)

Black Majority Churches are churches of any denomination, where most of the congregants are of African or Caribbean heritage. With an over 100-year existence within the UK, Black majority churches initially arose out of a need to worship and assimilate as newly migrated citizens into the UK, and in response to racist exclusions from existing churches.  I am one of the lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum, convened in 2016 to provide resources and training to church leaders. We have found churches and church leaders to be very receptive to the training and open to receiving support to become more responsive to reports of domestic abuse. My current research aims to promote effective relationships between Black Majority Church communities and secular organisations to better support victim-survivors, and to identify within churches, good practices in domestic abuse responses and those that can be improved.