Coming Home - Supporting Justice Impacted Women - Strategy Day

Part 2 of the Coming Home Strategy Series focuses on one critical question:

This is not a directory exercise. It is a systems-mapping and truth-telling session bringing together lived experience, VCSE organisations, and statutory services to explore the reality of support across the borough.

Together, we will map the intersectional needs of women including housing, trauma, addiction, poverty, family, health, employment, and digital inclusion against the services that exist.

We will identify where support works, where it fails, and where women fall through the gaps.

Commissioners and policy leads

Employers and HR professionals

VCSE partners and grassroots organisations

Academics, researchers, and students

Women with lived experience of the justice system

Lived experience mapping
Exploring what a week in the life actually looks like for women navigating multiple disadvantage

Systems mapping across Stockport
Identifying services across housing, domestic abuse, health, recovery, employment, and more

Gap analysis
Highlighting where services exist but are inaccessible, ineffective, or absent altogether

Honest discussion on barriers
Including stigma, digital exclusion, commissioning structures, and system limitations

Co-design of better pathways
Reimagining what a truly effective diversion and support model could look like

Women impacted by the justice system rarely experience one issue in isolation. They face multiple, overlapping challenges yet services are often designed in silos.

Despite strong provision across Stockport, women continue to:

Struggle to access housing

Fall through gaps between services

Experience stigma and exclusion

Face barriers to employment and digital participation

This day creates space to ask:
What is missing and what needs to change?

A clearer understanding of the real journeys women take through services

Insight into gaps, duplication, and barriers across the system

Opportunities for collaboration and partnership

Contribution to a shared strategy for improving outcomes in Stockport

The Coming Home Project is a lived experience-led organisation supporting women affected by the criminal justice system through trauma-informed programmes, peer support, and pathways into employment and stability.

We specialise in bridging gaps between services, particularly in areas often overlooked, such as digital identity, stigma, and reintegration.

This is a safe, respectful, and trauma-informed space.
All contributions are valued. Lived experience is central to the conversation.

This session forms part of a multi-day programme exploring education, empowerment, and employment for women impacted by the justice system.

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