ACORN Recovery Programme for Male Survivors of Domestic Abuse

The charity’s team of expert qualified professionals (Independent Domestic Violence Advisers and Domestic Abuse Service Managers) have created a Recovery Programme for Male Survivors of Domestic Abuse called ACORN. It is designed to help them to:

• break the cycle of isolation and loneliness they experience
• recognise the impact that domestic abuse has on them and their children
• move forward with their lives
• form healthy, respectful and loving relationships in the future

This is an online programme delivered by Zoom, over nine weeks and up to 10 delegates can be accommodated.

This programme has been academically peer reviewed by the UK’s leading experts and male survivors.

We are currently funded to deliver this programme in Avon & Somerset, as well as Dorset by the local Police and Crime Commissioner. It has been successfully delivered in six PCC force areas.

We are funded by The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust to deliver this programme nationwide for men who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces or veterans.

Individuals can be funded to attend the course if referred by a supporting organisation such as commissioned DA Services, Children’s Social Care, Adult Social Care or Housing by prior arrangement.

Acceptance on the ACORN Recovery Programme is at the sole discretion of the Charity.

For more information please contact:

acorn@mankind.org.uk

Avon and Somerset  ACORN Poster

Dorset  ACORN Poster

Armed Forces ACORN Poster

Feedback from those who have taken part:

It was a breath of fresh air to finally feel like I was being listened to and that I had a voice. I was spoken to and treated in a friendly reassuring manner. “

“I have found my time on the course very rewarding and validating. Having been through what I have, it is the best of feelings to know there is a chance of a change, and that hopefully in time both victims and society generally will have a different understanding of male victims of abuse and how and where they are abused.”

“I would recommend anyone who finds themselves in a similar position to that which I was in, to approach ManKind Initiative. As a serviceman, it is all too easy to ‘slope shoulders’ and ‘crack on’, but if you are a victim of DA then the sooner you find help the better and ManKind Initiative, specialising in male victims, means that they are easily approachable and are able to support far better.”