Finding Strength in Compassion: Domestic Abuse Service Providers and the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic created a host of personal and professional complexities for frontline crisis workers, but many were able to continue providing vital services during this turbulent time. Our research with specialist domestic abuse service providers (DASPs) at one charity in southeast England provides valuable insight into how they navigated these challenges to meet the unprecedented need for support, what sustained and motivated them throughout

this turbulent period, and what advice they have for others. This case-study approach of one organisation allowed us to explore in greater depth the personal and professional impacts arising from frontline specialists who adopted a positive and proactive approach to such an unprecedented time of crisis.