Subsequent care for women exposed to physical violence

Women exposed to physical violence, who have sought help at a women’s shelter, also receive extensive support from the shelter after their stay. The scope and nature of this support, called subsequent care, has been analysed in this report.
Key to the subsequent care provided by shelters is that they maintain professional, personal contact to the individual woman and design the scope of the subsequent care on the basis of the woman’s wishes, needs and own initiatives.
Subsequent care concentrates on providing support to the individual woman by offering psychological counselling and helping her in her contact with relevant public authorities. Furthermore, subsequent care concentrates on helping women in basic matters such as establishing a home of their own.
The subsequent care scheme works differently from shelter to shelter. The report recommends that women exposed to physical violence are given the right to free psychological counselling. Furthermore that readily accessible information be prepared with lists of relevant public authorities that should be contacted as well as advice on how to do this. These lists are intended for both the women and the shelters.
This study has been financed by TrygFonden.