The Drive Partnership

The Drive Partnership has launched a new phase of its National Systems Change work by partnering with specialist by-and-for organisations and experts by experience to co-design improved responses to perpetrators of domestic abuse across Black African, Caribbean and Mixed Heritage communities, South Asian communities, and LGBT+ communities.

Three co-design groups have been established to develop behaviour change pilot programmes focusing on responses to those who cause harm within Black, African, Caribbean and Mixed Heritage Communities, South Asian Communities, and LGBT+ Communities. Through the expertise of the specialist by-and-for organisations and experts by experience, the co-design groups will seek to address the lack of specialist domestic abuse provision across racialised communities and LGBT+ communities, and will work in partnership to develop service models, establish mutually agreed goals, advise on data collection and analysis methods, identify key risks, mitigations, and locations for delivery, and support the procurement of deliery partners.

Black, African, Caribbean and Mixed Heritage communities co-design group:

Annie Gibbs – Amour Destine,
Dawn Munroe and Marsha Brown – Bambuuu CIC,
Christabel Yeboah – HERSANA CIC,
Aisha Adam, April Dawn, and Stewart Faulkner.

Tina Patel, Head of National Systems Change at The Drive Partnership, said:

“The expertise and collaboration of by-and-for organisations and experts by experience is absolutely essential to improving responses to domestic abuse across all communities and has driven the collective progress of all of our National Systems Change work in recent years. We’re extremely grateful to have the opportunity to work alongside the co-design members, and we are excited to see the impact of this new phase of collaboration.”