Behind Closed Doors – Sticker Campaign
‘Behind closed doors’ is a sticker campaign that Clare Haven Services runs on a continuous basis whereby stickers with our confidential helpline number are stuck on the back of toilet doors in public buildings throughout the county. This enables women to take down our helpline number in private.
If you would like to participate in this campaign and display stickers in your workplace, local pub, hotel, restaurant, shops etc. please contact us on +353 (0)65 6842646.
In 2022, we received 984 helpline calls, 701 individual women availed of our non-refuge support, while 69 individual women and 130 individual children were admitted to our refuge. We also provided 216 court accompaniments.
16 Days of Action against Violence Against Women
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day
Candle Light Walk
To remember the women who have been killed in County Clare by their partners or ex-partners we lead a sombre, reflective walk from the Garda Station to the Court House in Ennis to think about the lights extinguished when the women we remember were killed.
Hidden Truths – Behind Closed Doors
A multimedia exhibition which explored the experience and themes of domestic abuse in Clare, behind the facade of a happy marriage or a happy relationship. There are a lot of hidden truths, a lot of harm, and torture and pain out of sight. Used art to show people rather than giving them an information sheet. Wanted to give viewers a sensory, visual experience, where they can touch, feel, see, smell. If you assault people’s senses in that way they will remember and they will learn in a different way and everyone will take away a different experience.
Den of Iniquity-Behind Closed Doors
Poetry on Film. We were privileged to be trusted with the words of Poet Liz Pouch who is a child and adult survivor of abuse. These 4 films, although speak to the experience and give us a glimpse into an abusive home, where the perpetrator uses his power to dominate different family members in different ways. The words and performance are hard-hitting, upsetting and can be triggering. These words belong to Liz Pouch.