Who we are
Survivors Voices is an abuse survivor-led organisation that turns the pain of abuse into power to improve responses to trauma. We work with survivors of all types of abuse. We are all ‘experts by experience’, a community of volunteers, freelancers, workers and advisers from a variety of backgrounds.
Our vision is for a safer society with support for survivors that is survivor-sensitive, survivor-empowering and services that are trauma-aware and trauma-competent.
WANTED: Recovery Histories Research Project
Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) Members
Child sexual abuse is not an illness, yet recovery is spoken about in a language borrowed from medicine. Our research project will explore what we lcan earn from the experiences of survivors and frontline practitioners about the many ways that survivors reach emotional and physical balance. The LEAG will advise and guide the research team throughout the project.
Learn more and download an application pack HERE
DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 30th 12noon. We especially encourage men and minoritised voices to apply.
What we do
Peer Support
We run peer support groups and survivor-gatherings.
We have peer networks for survivor researchers, writers, the faith sector and other survivor activists. We are always open to survivors who wish to join us.
Research
We research survivor experience of abuse, safeguarding, help-seeking and recovery. We develop tools to support good involvement of survivors in research and education, including our Survivor Charter, and Research Involvement Ladder. We can help you to engage well with survivors in your research project, and recruit participants and peer researchers.
Education and training
We educate about abuse and trauma-informed practice. We provide survivor-led training for practitioners, organisations and survivors. We can speak at your event or run training or workshops.
Activism
We run survivor-led projects to raise awareness of abuse and trauma, amplify survivors’ voices and co-create change with survivors. If you’re a survivor and want to turn your pain into the power to change, we want to hear from you.
Resources
We publish survivor-created writing, research and resources for survivors, allies and those who work with survivors. Join our mailing list to stay in touch with all our work.
After two decades of conversations with survivors, we can say with certainty that We ALL have much work to do to foster survivor-safe-survivor-sensitive-survivor-empowering environments in our organisations and in our communities and to develop trauma-aware-trauma-competent practices within professional helping relationships. What is your part to play?
- Survivor Writing
We’re pleased to share two poems by a member of our survivor writing community. They’re beautiful poems that move from trauma towards peace and healing. The group meets online on Thursday evenings in term time, more information HERE. A Lament Inspired by Psalm 13, this piece was created during a Bible-based Trauma healing workshop. Similarly,… Read more: Survivor Writing
Survivors Voices is a non-profit organisation. For more about us see Our History and meet Our Team. Check out what people say about us here. Support our work through a donation.
