We focus on helping women to improve their own and their children’s safety. We enable women to explore their experiences of domestic violence and gain more control over their lives. We offer support, safety planning and information, and we promote realistic expectations of our work with her partner or ex-partner on the Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme. We advocate on women’s behalf to statutory agencies.

We offer 1:1 support in person or on the phone and weekly support groups. We encourage women to attend on a regular basis. Our facilitators encourage women to take responsibility for the group and the issues discussed, using a range of counselling, therapeutic and educational techniques. We also encourage women to phone us when they need to.

We proactively contact every woman whose partner is referred to us, by phone and by sending   an information pack. We stay in touch with all women clients through regular phone calls. If there are specific concerns for a woman’s safety or her children’s safety, we make contact a priority and take all available steps to minimise the risks.

We provide a specialist 1:1 child therapy service for children and young people affected by domestic violence. Our service enables children and young people to address the emotional impact of domestic abuse. By offering a safe, consistent and confidential space, children and young people are able to process difficult and confusing experiences. 

Our play and creative arts therapy sessions are non-directive and child-centred, focusing on the needs and age of the child or young person. We provide an opportunity for children and young people to explore and process their experiences using a range of approaches.

We work with young people 1:1 to identify and change their violent/abusive behaviours. The programme draws on a variety of approaches such as cognitive behaviour therapy, attachment theory and systemic practice.

We work to explore more effective ways of communicating distress that are safer and address any underlying beliefs and attitudes supporting their use of violence.

Parents are offered 1:1 sessions that focus on exploring their experiences and supporting them to take steps to make themselves and their family safer. 

Our Drive service is an intensive intervention that works with high-harm and serial perpetrators of Domestic abuse to challenge behaviour, hold perpetrators to account and prevent further abuse and harm to victims and children.

The service, which is jointly funded by the PCC and Home office, operates across both Birmingham and Sandwell regions, chosen due to the significant number of DA cases within both areas.

The intervention is directly focused on high harm and serial perpetrators of abuse and is tailored to address the primary needs and remove barriers to engagement, enabling effective behaviour change work to safely be undertaken. An intensive one-to-one case management approach to tackle offending and hold perpetrators accountable for the abuse is adopted and each case will be responded to on an individual basis and in the best interests of the victims and children.  New enhancements to the service means that there is additional specialist support for cases whereby there are presentations of issues pertaining to substance misuse and mental health as well as a specialist post to work with our BAME demographics.

MyTime is delivering the programme in both areas, with an expert team of trained professionals, who work closely with statutory and voluntary agencies including the police, probation, mental health services, victim/survivor services, and children’s services, to prevent and end abuse. Victims/survivors will be provided with support throughout the Drive intervention.

Drive has been highlighted in both the government’s VAWG strategy and the Domestic Abuse Bill for its innovative approach to working with perpetrators.

Our Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes are a structured group work intervention designed to work with those perpetrating abuse within their intimate relationships.

The aim of the programme is to support those perpetrating abuse to address their behaviours, and encourage positive behaviour and attitudinal change, with the view to reducing the risk of harm to the victim, whether this be a current or past partner, and any children.