International Women’s Day Online Event – 9th March

Monday 9th March 2026
11 am to 1 pm
Online Event – Scotland

“Giving to Gain – Women, Harm, and Recovery in Scotland: What We’re Hearing – What Must Change – What’s Working”

Please hold the date for a national online event marking International Women’s Day, where the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) will share insights from our ongoing research and engagement with women affected by drug and alcohol harm across Scotland.

This event will explore the multifaceted and complex nature of the harm women experience, shaped by gender, trauma, inequality, social circumstances, and the environments they must navigate. This event will form part of a four-week programme of activities designed to highlight and amplify the needs, experiences, and priorities of women across Scotland.

Purpose of the Event

This online conversation will bring together women with lived and living experience, practitioners, policymakers, and partners to:

  • listen to women’s voices,
  • share SRC’s research findings,
  • strengthen collaboration around gender‑responsive recovery.

Further details, speakers, and registration information will follow soon.

This online event will focus on three core areas of SRC’s work:

1. Understanding the Harms Women Face

Drawing from lived and living experience, SRC’s research explores the interconnected, layered harms women experience, including:

  • the gendered nature of harm and its root causes,
  • the impact of trauma, stigma, coercion, and unsafe environments,
  • the ways poverty, violence, caring responsibilities, and social isolation compound risk, and
  • persistent inequalities in access to support, safety, and recovery spaces.

2. What Needs to Change

We will examine the structural, cultural, and system-wide changes women have told us are required, including:

  • safer, dedicated women-only recovery spaces,
  • gender‑responsive services and trauma-informed pathways,
  • improved access to holistic, long-term support, and
  • reducing the administrative, financial, and practical barriers that prevent women from engaging.

3. Where Good Practice Is Emerging

Alongside identifying gaps, SRC is mapping examples of promising and effective practice already happening across Scotland—highlighting approaches that centre dignity, safety, compassion, choice, and the realities of women’s lives.

 

To attend the event please click this Teams link at 11am on Monday 9th March – 

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