The Effective Women’s Centre Partnership

The Effective Women’s Centre Partnership2026-10-14T15:27:09+00:00

Stockport Women’s Centre is proud to be a part of the Effective Women’s Centres Partnership

– ensuring women have the chance to thrive

The aim of the EWC Project is to build and share evidence on how women’s centres transform lives and benefit communities to inform and shift policy.

The EWC Project vision is that all women in England and Wales have access to sufficiently funded, gender- and trauma-responsive services where their needs and strengths are recognised, evidenced and met; their voices are listened to; and they have agency to transform the systems which impact them, creating better lives for themselves and society as a whole.

The Effective Women’s Centres (EWC) Project is a collaboration between:

Together we are pioneering the use of trauma-informed, gender-responsive assessments which look at all aspects of a woman’s life to identify the risks and needs she faces and where she is already strong.

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Using our research to inform and influence in Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is in a unique position to use this data and insight through its region-wide VAWG strategy, devolved health and social care budget, status as a Marmot City Region and the Live Well programme to reduce long term unemployment through ill-health.

We are keen to share our findings with funders, commissioners and policy makers from across healh, social care, community safety and CJS sectors in the region along with civil society colleagues.

Research by the Effective Women’s Centres Project to date includes:

  • Meta-analytic review of effectiveness of interventions for CJS-involved women
  • Examining the relationships between severity and complexity of needs among CJS-involved women
  • Identifying principles and practice of casework in women’s centres and for supporting CJS-involved women
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