London

London Regional Manager: Helen Veitch / Chris Pummel
Tel: 020 74281080
Mobile: 07872 601786 / 07912 514808
Email: hveitch@stopitnow.org.uk / cpummel@stopitnow.org.uk
For confidential emails: help@stopitnow.org.uk.

Activities

Stop it Now! launched a new prevention programme for parents in November called “Let’s Start Talking”.  The programme works in partnerships with Children’s Centres across London.

For a limited period we can offer FREE WORKSHOPS for parents.

What’s in it for you?

We are looking for Children’s Centres to help us pilot this initiative with parents that are accessing their centre.

If you would like to be involved we can deliver a two-hour workshop with parents for free (until July 2010).

Before the parents workshop we will discuss with you exactly how the workshop would run and adapt it to your and your parents' needs. 

What do the workshops cover?

We believe that you don’t have to be an expert to prevent child sexual abuse and that one of the first steps in prevention is to encourage people to start talking.  The ‘Let’s Start Talking’ programme takes a participative and informal approach with parents, encouraging them to explore the practical things they can do in their families that will help protect their children from abuse.

The programme aims to help parents:

- recognise the characteristics of abusive behaviours;
- identify ‘family rules’ they can use with their children to help protect them from sexual abuse;
- put into place an ‘action plan’ for when they spot inappropriate behaviour;
- identify three prevention steps they can take action on in the next week.

Please contact Helen Veitch or Chris Pummell if you are interested in piloting the workshops.

Community Prevention Project

A three-year project is being piloted to help prevent child sexual abuse within Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee communities in London. 

Stop it Now! is working in partnership with Praxis and the NSPCC with the Somali community in London. The project takes a participatory approach with the Somali community, involving community members in the design and delivery of awareness messages.

Initial findings from the baseline research with the Somali community will be available in the autumn.

If you are interested in finding out more – please join our e-consultation group by emailing the Development Worker for the project, Musa Eid, on Musa.Eid@praxis.org.uk