Commonweal and Solace Womens Aid launch new project
Women exiting prostitution and trafficking offered vital support in new partnership with leading London domestic and sexual abuse charity.
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New report launched on exiting prostitution
Danger that specialist support for women to leave prostitution behind being “undermined” Commonweal Housing releases a new report today investigating developments in policy and practice affecting services that support women to leave prostitution behind them. The report was carried out by academics and commissioned by Commonweal, who provide third stage accommodation to St Mungo’s staged model…
Read MoreChrysalis featured in Inside Housing
The first of two articles is from Ashley Horsley of Commonweal Housing who is concerned about the don’t ask don’t tell approach when it comes to women’s support services and prostitution.and the other from Ashleigh Haywood of St Mungo’s about Christmas if you’re homeless and separated from your children.
Read MoreTransforming Lives and celebrating National Women's Day
Transforming lives is at the heart of International Women’s Day [on Friday] and one initiative doing so, that we are proudly involved in, is the Chrysalis Project in South London.
Read MoreChrysalis project: moving from exploitation to independence
Commonweal and St Mungo’s have jointly delivered the Chrysalis project since 2009. Here we present the findings of our evaluation of the project that helps women exit street prostitution.
Read MoreChrysalis report launched
The evaluation report on Commonweal’s Chrysalis project has been published. The report produced by Prof. Roger Matthews and Helen Easton for the University of Kent confirms the positive impact the Chrysalis model and especially the Commonweal transitional flats has made to those women on the programme seeking to escape from a life of street based prostitution.
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