Strategic Plan 2008-2012

SAFE IRELAND, through our members, creates safe spaces for women and children. However, it takes more than refuges and support services to create safety from abuse and violence. It requires the involvement of civic society in taking on its  responsibilities to assert the right to a safe home, a safe community, a safe county, a safe country and a safe world for women, children and men.

We hope that as a worker, manager, organisation, network staff and board, you will be supported, confident and guided by the strategic processes drawn from your practice and elaborated here. Our course is clear for the years ahead: to dialogue to make a difference; to centre women’s experiences; to act on reflected knowledge and learning about Domestic Violence and to work collaboratively with allies for social justice
and social change.

We wish to inspire those who read this document or encounter it in action. We are committed to its vision, and values. We intend in enacting our strategies to place the knowledge generated from women’s and children’s experiences at the centre of our actions. We will work to build alliances within civic society to ensure that violence against women and their children is not tolerated. We will take care of ourselves and each other to meet that endeavour.

We are SAFE IRELAND.
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