The Coaction Hub is a 3-year partnership between Asian Women’s Resource Centre (AWRC) and Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. It aims to strengthen the Co-ordinated Community Response (CCR) to improve responses to Black and Minoritized/global majority survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices. Whilst individual agencies may lead on aspects of the project this will be carried out within a collaborative partnership structure.

AWRC are leading on a ‘knowledge hub’, consulting specialists and survivors and exploring VAWG intervention models internationally to assess what learnings can be integrated. They will be exploring the effectiveness of risk assessment for Black and minoritized survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices. They will also create specialist cultural competence training formats and other targeted training materials

 STADA will be leading on improving responses within existing structures of the CCR where their expertise lies such as MARACs and DHRs. They will be building on their work supporting a local Harmful Practices Operational Group, which incorporated collating and analysing data on how harmful practices cases present at MARAC. The work will be widened to explore the effectiveness of MARAC for harmful practices cases through surveying MARAC Co-ordinators and holding interviews and focus groups with the specialist agencies who represent these cases at MARAC. The Coaction Hub will be also offering targeted training on MARAC and Harmful Practices, combining the expertise of both partnership agencies. In collaboration with our DHR Team, we also offer DHR mentorships to Black and minoritized workers in the sector. The aim will be to bring their voices and expertise into the DHR sector, whilst providing them with training and mentoring.  

 As part of this project AWRC and STADA co-ordinate a pan-London Harmful Practices Strategic Partnership (HPSP), a by and for led space for agencies to work strategically and collaboratively around creating change in response to harmful practices. Please, access the HPSP page by clicking here.