Good Practice Guidelines

 

Women's Aid's Domestic Violence, Mental Health and Substance Use Project 2002 - 2005

The Women's Aid Mental Health and Domestic Violence Project was funded by the Department of Health with the overall aim of improving the quality of services available for women who are experiencing domestic violence and also have mental health and/or substance use issues. As part of this project, Women's Aid has produced a set of Good Practice Guidelines for those working in the fields of domestic violence, mental health, drugs and alcohol. These are available to download here, either in text format or as pdfs. For the pdf versions, you will need Adobe Acrobat - if you do not have this software and would like to download a free version of it, visit the Adobe website.

Principles of Good Practice for working with women experiencing domestic violence: