Calan DVS is a domestic abuse organisation operating across Pembrokeshire, Neath Port Talbot, Ammanford and South Powys. Calan provides refuge accommodation for women and children (up to the age of 18 years) across 6 refuges within 4 local authority areas and 7 move-on properties within Pembrokeshire.
Calan also provides refuge accommodation for male victims (25+) and male victims (25+) with children within Neath Port Talbot. As a specialist domestic abuse organisation, Calan DVS offers a range of interventions via 1-2-1 support and group programmes, these include:
Community and assessment services
Our community and assessment services support all individuals (adults, children, and young people) who have experienced domestic violence and abuse and who are living in the communities in which we work.
Adult community-based support includes 1-2-1 support, co-produced group programmes, peer support sessions, volunteer opportunities, counselling provision and access to prevention and education programmes. These services are offered across Neath Port Talbot, Ammanford, South Powys and Pembrokeshire.
Assessment based workers, work with agencies who refer into the service such as police and other statutory and non-statutory organisations and support those individuals who self-refer.
Children and Young people services
Our specialist Children and Young People's Team deliver a range of age-appropriate interventions and preventative programmes which are designed to: increase resilience, improve safety, develop coping strategies, support CYP to express their feelings in a healthy way, help them to understand that abuse is not their fault and learn how to communicate more effectively with their non-abusive parent/carer.
IDVA Provision - Dyfed Powys
Calan DVS are the lead partner in a partnership with 4 other specialist domestic abuse agencies delivering the Dal I Godi IDVA service across the Dyfed Powys area. The IDVA service delivered across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Powys and Ceredigion works with high-risk victims of domestic abuse to support them with everything they need to become safe, rebuild their life, and represent their voice at a Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC), as well as supporting victims to navigate the criminal justice process and working with the different statutory agencies to provide wraparound support.
Perpetrator Interventions
Intervention Hub This programme is an online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based intervention that helps people to tackle problem thinking and behaviour. Open to both Male and Females in Mid and West Wales who are displaying/concerned about their behaviour towards their partner or a loved one.
Male victim's specialist support
The Compass Programme.
The Compass Programme is a specialist resource designed to support male survivors to recover from their experience following self-acknowledgement of having been the victim in an abusive relationship. It provides a unique opportunity for men affected by domestic abuse to share their experiences with other victims in a safe and supportive environment.
Male IDVA Service.
The Male IDVA service delivered across Neath Port Talbot and Swansea, works with high-risk male victims of domestic abuse to support them with everything they need to become safe, rebuild their life, and represent their voice at a Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC), as well as supporting victims to navigate the criminal justice process and working with the different statutory agencies to provide wraparound support.
LGBTQ+ provision
Specifically developed for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and other gender, relationship & sexuality diverse Individuals; the Myriad 8-week recovery and resilience programme has been developed in partnership with LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic abuse and the University of South Wales. We offer a safe space to chat, learn and support each other.
Sexual Violence
The Lotus Project offers timely access to a range of psychoeducational and therapeutic support for survivors of sexual violence and abuse who are linked in with other Calan DVS services. Through specialist one to one support, a twelve-week group program and counselling provision from a variety of therapeutic modalities - survivors of sexual trauma are given the opportunity to shape their own recovery and address how their past trauma may be impacting their present lives.
Calan DVS is a domestic abuse organisation operating across Pembrokeshire, Neath Port Talbot, Ammanford and South Powys. Calan provides refuge accommodation for women and children (up to the age of 18 years) across 6 refuges within 4 local authority areas and 7 move-on properties within Pembrokeshire.
Calan also provides refuge accommodation for male victims (25+) and male victims (25+) with children within Neath Port Talbot. As a specialist domestic abuse organisation, Calan DVS offers a...
