The MsUnderstood Programme aims to improve local and national responses to young people’s experiences of gender inequality. Check out our website.
The application process for our internship placements are now OPEN! see http://www.msunderstood.org.uk/ for details of how to apply -
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/policyandpublicaffairs/england/consultations/APPG-CSA-seminars_wdf102423.pdf
Just published last week - MsUnderstood gave oral evidence to this
Carlene Firmin: The Prison Reform Trust and HMIC highlight links between women’s offending and domestic and sexual violence, yet the criminal justice system still isn’t joining up the dots…click on link to read more
One of the monthly columns written by Carleene Firmin, Head of the MSunderstood Partnership
Carlene Firmin is recalling the worst case she has ever come across. A 20-year-old woman, whom she met in a refuge, had had two relationships with gang members as a teenager. They broke both her legs and her collar bone. Slashed her with knives. Beat her. Her baby was stillborn at eight months and she can no longer have children due to internal injuries.
As a new reports warns that girls in gangs lead “desperate lives” - Cathy Newman asks activists Jennifer Blake and Carlene Firmin if enough is being done to help young girls and teenage women.
Building on eight years of experience researching peer-on-peer exploitation, teenage relationship abuse, serious youth and gang-associated violence, Carlene Firmin is heading up the MsUnderstood Partnership to offer direct strategic and operational support to three local areas for three years. Following an initial audit, each locality will receive a bespoke three pronged, three year, programme of work to meet local need and improve strategy, tools and services.
Expressions of interest are welcomed from clusters of local authority areas in addition to single local authorities.
To download the information leaflet, please click here.
To download the expression of interest form, please click here.
The MsUnderstood Programme aims to improve local and national responses to young people’s experiences of gender inequality.
The MsUnderstood Partnership – (funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation) is a three year partnership between the University of Bedfordshire, Imkaan and the Girls Against Gangs Project, to improve responses to peer-on-peer abuse in young people’s relationships and peer groups through:
The MsUnderstood Programme is founded and headed by Carlene Firmin MBE, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire
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