Domestic Violence
Some 1.2 million women and 700,000 men experience domestic violence each year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
However, these figures relate only to official reports of violence, with the real figure likely to be much higher. The effect on survivors' mental health is profound and obvious.
- Domestic violence has an estimated overall cost to mental healthcare of £176 million.
- Research suggests that people experiencing domestic abuse are more likely to experience mental health problems. In contrast, women with mental health problems are more likely to be domestically abused, with 30-60% of people with mental health problems have experienced domestic violence.
- Domestic violence is associated with depression, anxiety, PTSD and substance abuse in the general population.
- Exposure to domestic violence has a significant impact on children's mental health. Many studies have found strong links between poorer educational outcomes and higher levels of mental health problems.
Support
Below are some local organisations that may be able to help you. If there are any organisations that you think should be listed, please let us know by clicking here.
If you would like to see some national organisations, please click here.
Bradford District Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Working together, our teams have specialist knowledge and experience to help not only the individual, but in some circumstances, the whole family too.
Our multi-agency teams exist to take positive action, change attitudes and improve the lives of anyone affected by abuse.
To find out more, click here to read about our District wide strategy in full or the summary.
Qwell
Qwell is a free, anonymous online mental health and wellbeing service tailored for adults across certain areas in the UK (ages 19+ in Bradford), accredited by the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Some things we'd like you to remember include:
- We are completely Free: No cost to access any of our services.
- Total Anonymity: Your identity is kept confidential.
- Safe Environment: All posts and comments are moderated on Qwell.
- No Referral Needed: Simply sign up and start using Qwell by going to our website.
- Quick and Easy Registration: Get started in just a few minutes.
- Support for All Issues: No problem is too small to discuss with us.
Ben's Place
Ben’s Place is a trauma-informed counselling service is survivor-led and focused. Its vision is to support the development of a range of evidence-based services that are gender-informed and accessible across West Yorkshire. Services which are user-friendly and proactively involve survivors.
Our aim is to create a specialist service which easily connects survivors and their supporters to professional services that work well for them.
Our focus is on internet support whilst exploring and developing new off-line options for survivors.
Our objective is via innovation and collaboration to support the self-empowerment of all survivors of sexual violence- abuse by developing robustly evaluated psychological interventions.
Supported by self – help knowledge and social action involvement and best practice co-production projects which allow survivors to become an authentic expert resource to support policy and service improvements for themselves and others.
Underpinning our service is an ethos of partnership – collaborative working across sectors to create collective impacts.
It is vitally important that you contact the police on 999 if you are in immediate danger or 101 if the threat is not imminent. Nobody should be victim to domestic violence. You can also text 999 if you have registered for emergencySMS services.
That's Mental Mate!
