The Jacana Parenting Service was a pilot programme developed and delivered in partnership between the nia project and Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) to support parents affected by current and historic domestic violence in Hackney.
The programme offered separate interventions for men as perpetrators and support to women as victim-survivors, using individual and group work, and was funded by the Parenting Fund.
The Jacana Project met a gap in service provision and addresses statutory interventions which don’t take into account the dynamics of domestic violence and too often focus on blaming mothers for “failing to protect their children”.
