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VAWG Be Heard – BSL

The Home Office is seeking your views to help inform the development of the government’s next Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

International Women’s Day 2021

Together from all of us at SignHealth we encourage you to #ChooseToChallenge to support women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Kent Healthy Relationship Workshops

Deaf people living in Kent are invited to join our interactive healthy relationship workshops on Zoom!

Deaf Awareness in Child Protection Social Work

Marie Vickers explains that within child protection processes, social workers have little understanding of Deaf culture. Often, erroneous assumptions are made based on what is considered ‘normal’ in the hearing world.

16 Days of Activism 2020

25 Nov – 10 Dec
Short films, workshops, information and support from SignHealth to stop gender-based violence.

BSL Zone Q&A Stream: Coronavirus and Domestic Abuse

Available to watch after 7pm, Wednesday 20 May 2020 Domestic Abuse: A discussion Fifi Garfield, Marie Vickers & Sabina Iqbal discuss domestic abuse and how the current lockdown situation has changed things. This Q&A programme … Continued

Domestic Abuse Service – Coronavirus contigency plan

The SignHealth Domestic Abuse Service is still accepting referrals and our staff are working remotely. We are continuing to support new and current clients via video calls.

Film premiere – domestic abuse short films

These five films were commissioned by SignHealth with funding from the Home Office to help raise awareness of five issues related to domestic abuse, including: consent, forced marriage and sexting.

New video: Are you being coerced?

Are you being controlled by your partner? What is coercion? Is it acceptable? What can I do? These are just some of the questions SignHealth hopes to answer in this hard-hitting short film. UPDATE – … Continued