Conscious Healthy Relationships-Takes Two🥰❤️🥰 House of Lords Event to support the ending of domestic abuse intelligently, once and for all:) DRIVE> An innovative approach to responding to high-harm perpetrators of domestic abuse. Drive works with high-harm perpetrators to reduce abuse and increase victim/survivor safety. It has been developed as part of a partnership between Respect, Safe Lives, and Social Finance in collaboration with MOPAC, PCC’s, local authorities, and service providers in Croydon, Essex, Sussex, South Wales, West Mercia and the West Midlands. Drive challenges the central narrative surrounding domestic abuse, asking: “Why doesn’t he stop?” Instead of “Why doesn’t she leave?” The university of Bristol is running a three-year independent evaluation of DRIVE. The year 2 findings from the analysis of 212 cases are telling us… Each year more than 100,000 people in the UK are at high and imminent risk of being murdered or seriously injured as a result of domestic abuse. Services rightly focus on meeting the needs of victims but often perpetrators are not held to account and their abusive behaviour continues. Only 1% of perpetrators get a specialist intervention that might prevent future abusive behaviour and as a result there is a high level of repeat perpetration. DRIVE is a new programme giving perpetrators the support and tools to realise their behaviour patterns for change, prison is not always the answer, however, if they don’t learn this can be the outcome. So far it has seen a reduction of abuse, reduction of risk, reduction in DVA offending. Drive is programme testing methods to ensure the reduction in risk remains a long-term impact after the programme ends. Here’s to greater understanding and profound change for the better. Don’t suffer in silence-REACH OUT- Reaching out is a super power💥❤️💥 #socialfinance #respect #responsibility #healthyrelationships #conscioushealing #endingdomesticabuse #reachingoutisasuperpower💥☯️💥 #safelives =Phenomenal🥳🙏🏻🌈✨ @safelives_ @safelivesuk