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Valley House Internet Pilot

Valley House have access to a number of safe properties, but none of these properties have internet connectivity, the Valley House Internet Pilot aims to change that. Not having access to the internet resulted in service users having to use phones and unaffordable data which … Read more

Trauma Training

In January 2023 Coventry and Warwickshire Trauma Vanguard Project & Coventry and Warwickshire Safeguarding Partnerships (Positive Directions) did a “shout out” for professionals to become trauma informed trainers attending their Trauma Training and our CEO LJ, answered the call! Alongside other professionals from across a … Read more

LGBTQ+ abuse – Paige shares her story of domestic abuse

Paige’s journey is an inspiring testament to the resilience and strength of survivors within the LGBTQ+ community, and her story serves as a beacon of hope for those who may be facing similar challenges. As an abuse survivor and former service user of Valley House, … Read more

Family Links – Nurturing Programme

What is the Nurturing Programme? Children are rewarding, stimulating and fun, but looking after them can be stressful and challenging. The Nurturing Programme helps deal with those challenges so that you can have a calmer, happier life. A tried and tested programme, it helps us … Read more

Valley House Student Placements

Valley House have been working in partnership with Coventry University for may years to support the Social Work Programme for students – since the start of VH we have usually had 2 intakes per year of 1st placement students but this has not happened recently … Read more

Community Garden Project

Valley House would like to congratulate 🎉 its Young Parents Team for being awarded a grant of £1,500 from Coventry General Charities towards the renovation of our Community Garden 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾! This project will not only be a great help to all staff and service users … Read more

What are the benefits of walking?

What are the benefits of walking? We love a good walk at Valley House, whether it’s our weekly staff wellbeing walk, a nature walk with our Nursery children or a long ramble as part of our Domestic Abuse Service coffee mornings! We all seem to … Read more

The Counselling Service

Jacqui is our counselling service coordinator, working with the Community Wellbeing team. She lives in Birmingham and in her spare time enjoys walking and yoga. She has 19 years experience in Social Work, working with children and families. She started training as a counsellor 26 … Read more

International Women’s Day 2021

It’s International Women’s day 2021. The theme of this year is Choose to Challenge. Time to call out gender inequalities. But what does that mean? If you witness or are subjected to something misogynistic or sexist or gender biased, challenge it. After all gender bias … Read more

What is FGM?

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is deliberately cutting, damaging or changing the female genitals, without a medical reason. It can cause serious physical and psychological harm and is illegal in the UK. The 6th of February is International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. Why do … Read more