Peer mentoring with survivors of abuse who have disabilities or multiple disadvantage

Gilbert, Beverley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-2019 (2023) Peer mentoring with survivors of abuse who have disabilities or multiple disadvantage. Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) Magazine.

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Abstract

Cohort 4, were invited by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Office to present our work around peer mentoring with women surviving abuse who have disabilities or multiple disadvantage. Cohort 4 have been delivering our peer mentoring and peer support groups in Warwickshire, England for approaching ten years and it was a pleasure to contribute to the conference session that felt full of hope and optimism for women who survive abuse and experience mental ill health and/or physical disability.
This article considers creation of a community of strength, bringing skills, knowledge and a sense of optimism for recovery. Seeing a fellow survivor of abuse thrive in a peer mentor role is highly motivating for a woman who has had her self-confidence and wellbeing crushed by an abusive partner. Peer mentoring can generate possibility of recovery, of regaining strength and importantly, it illustrates hope.

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