Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Network
VVAWG is a complex and multifaceted social issue which requires a multifaceted approach, across various settings and services. This process of multiagency working can often feel challenging and overwhelming for many professionals attempting to make change. The CCR model, which Standing Together has pioneered in the UK for over 25 years, offers a structured framework to support local areas to embed a whole-system response to tackle and ultimately end VAWG.
Why join the CCR Network?
The CCR Network brings together Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and domestic abuse (DA) leads across a range of organisational settings to share, learn and support each other to develop and embed the CCR model in their local areas.
The CCR Network offers a range of benefits for members to support them to implement the CCR in their areas and to learn from each other, including workshops, webinars, a monthly newsletter and access to resources via an online library.
The CCR model is named in the UK government's Domestic Abuse Statutory Guidance as best practice.
For more information about CCR Network membership, download our Membership Pack.
How do I become a CCR Network Member?
If you would like to become a CCR Network member, please Sign up here
If you are thinking about joining and want to find out more, please email us and we will get back to you. We encourage organisations from all sectors and communities to join us to demonstrate their support for the CCR and its values.
Please email us at ccr@standingtogether.org.uk
History of the CCR Network
In 2008 we set up the Domestic Violence Coordinators Network (DVCN). DV coordinators were a relatively new post at the time and often an isolated and lonely one. The Network's aims were to support professionals to make domestic abuse partnerships more effective, facilitate networking, share good practices, current research and legal frameworks, and lobby on local and national issues relating to domestic abuse.
Now the aims are similar but we are often working with a VAWG partnership rather than DA and our VAWG leads are also in health, the police, housing or the voluntary sector, as well as in local authorities.
What has been made clear against a background of increasing need and depleting resources is that the CCR approach is more important than ever. Our knowledge and experience of the theory and the practice of delivering a CCR means that we can facilitate the CCR Network as a space for sharing practice and information on how to effectively deliver a CCR in your local area. In our work across the UK (and Europe) we have seen a variety of practices and recognised common struggles amongst those with the responsibility to deliver their local CCR.
