Cardiff Women’s Aid is charity that works to protect and support women and children who are experiencing and escaping domestic violence and abuse.
CWA deliver a range of services to meet women’s needs including four refuge houses (which are places where women and children can feel safe and begin to think about a different future); a crisis centre that offers ongoing support to women who don’t want or need to go into refuge and for those women who wish to remain in their current relationships and need help to improve them; support in women and children’s own homes (through our outreach team); and a free counselling service.
We are committed to empowering, enabling and equipping the women and children who use our service to make positive, deep and sustainable changes to their lives.
As an organisation we work to the definition and understanding that domestic violence and abuse must be seen within the wider context of violence against women. Violence against women (of which domestic violence and abuse is by far the largest component) is a direct result of women’s position within societies and is about power and control. The foundation for violent and abusive relationships is the coercive and controlling nature and behaviour of the perpetrator and this can take many different forms but the results are the same.
Cardiff Women’s Aid is working both to deliver front line services that make a lasting impact on the lives of the women and children that use our services and also at a policy level to influence changes that will lead to an end to domestic violence and abuse (and all forms of gender based violence against women).