DOMESTIC ABUSE ONE DAY WORKSHOPS

All workshops are commissioned in-house by agencies.

Teenage Relationship Abuse – Working with Young People in Abusive Relationships

The aims of this workshop are:

To increase awareness of the problem of violence and abuse in teen relationships and enable practitioners to offer supportive interventions.
To inform professional judgement in relation to young people, help to identify suitable cases to be reviewed at a MARAC and inform referrals to Children and Young People Services (CYPS).
The workshop will provide participants with information to promote better understanding of forms of abuse that affect young people including coercive, controlling and grooming behaviours and other sustained abusive activities that are increasingly prevalent in teen relationships. Through discussion and exercises the course will consider:

Who may be at risk of teenage relationship abuse and their age-range
If there are similarities between adult and teenage relationship abuse
How to begin a risk assessment process with a young person being harmed within a relationship
How to work with young people who may be experiencing a broad spectrum of emotions and feelings, encompassing low self-esteem, low self-worth and confusion
By the end of the course participants will have had the opportunity to:

Develop a deeper insight into the components and dynamics of abuse experienced in young and/or teenage relationships
Further understanding of the added risk factors compounding this complex issue identifying differences between teenage and adult domestic abuse
Explore use of Young Person’s Risk Indicator Checklist for MARAC, in alignment with safeguarding, as well safety planning and how to engage young people in this process
The course is appropriate for practitioners and professionals including those working for voluntary organisations whose role involves working with/supporting women, children and families. Participants who have previously attended, range from Health, Social Services, CYP Services, Children’s Services, Youth Offending & Probation, Housing, Police & legal professionals, Women’s Aid, Counsellors & specific Domestic Abuse Services.

The workshop will include the use of a PowerPoint presentation, DVD, case studies, group discussion and self-reflection.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive pack with notes to accompany the training, which can be used for future reference.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.

Child to Parent Violence & Abuse

A unique opportunity to gain insight and understand child to parent violence (CPV).

CPV has emerged significantly as an issue for families in the UK over the past five years. The research on this neglected form of family violence is confusing and often contradictory and there is little practical information available. Through this one day workshop we are keen to raise the profile and inform practitioners of the context of CPV in the UK, enabling them to identify and support parents who are battling with CPV.

The workshop is specifically aimed at practitioners working with families where children are being abusive towards their parents or who are completely out of control. The learning is based on our own experince of working with families and working with Eddie Gallagher (founder of the Who’s in Charge? programme). Practitioners who have attended our workshops come from: domestic abuse agencies, probation, youth offending, health, therapeutic services, legal services, Citizens Advice Bureaus, education, community groups, housing, police, social services, early help teams, youth services, adoption & fostering services.

Benefits of attending:

To increase understanding of the reasons that CPV can happen
Dispel the myths surrounding CPV
Explore approaches to working with parents experiencing CPV
Tips & Tools to support parents

Issues to be explored:

Introduction to CPV including national context
an overview of the Who’s in Charge? approach
How to identify CPV as opposed to other forms of familial abuse
How to discuss CPV in the face of shame & embarrassment
Impact of differing parenting styles for parents of uncooperative children
Supporting parents to develop creative consequences
Empowerment of parents

This approach aims to:

Reduce parental guilt, build hope and get parents past “we’ve tried everything!”
Explore realistic consequences for non-cooperative kids
Encourage improved engagement between parent & child/adolescent

The workshop uses PowerPoint, group discussion, videos and exercises.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.

Children & Domestic Abuse – A Shift in Approach

The workshop aims to promote better outcomes for children and young people who have/are living with domestic abuse and to raise awareness of their needs and views to enable practitioners to develop responsive interventions that consider:

the effects on children and young people of living with domestic violence & abuse
how domestic abuse can be recognised through the responses and behaviour of children and young people
how children and young people make sense of their experiences of domestic abuse
the coping strategies they may use
resilience
practical and therapeutic approaches that involve and build on children’s and young peoples own understanding

The workshop will include the use of a powerpoint, presentation, DVD, case studies, group discussion and self-reflection.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive pack with notes to accompany the training, which can be used for future reference.

The workshop is appropriate for multi-agency practitioners, including those working for statutory and voluntary sector organisations that have a sound working knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse and may work directly or indirectly with children and their families. The workshop underpins safeguarding procedures.

Participants will be expected to have completed some domestic abuse training prior to attending.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.

Domestic Abuse, Complex Trauma & the Impact on Mental Health

This trauma informed workshop gives participants the opportunity to understand the nature and effects of domestic violence on a person’s emotional and mental health. It identifies the criteria for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and looks at how the effects of domestic violence and abuse and Complex Trauma impact the mental health of victims/survivors, but may never be recognised as such.

The workshop also aims to offer support to practitioners when working with those living with or impacted by domestic violence and abuse. It introduces risk assessment tools and how to assist a client in making a safety/crisis plan within the counselling session, without compromising the counselling process.

This workshop is useful for multi-agency practitioners as well as counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling supervisors, health professionals and those working with victims/survivors of domestic violence & abuse wishing to take a trauma informed, holistic approach.

The workshop will include the use of a powerpoint, presentation, DVD, case studies, group discussion and self-reflection.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive pack with notes to accompany the training, which can be used for future reference.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.

Domestic Violence & Abuse and Coercive Control

The workshop provides the opportunity for participants to:

increase their knowledge base of domestic violence and abuse and its complex nature
explores coercive control
challenge the myths, stereotypes and social tolerance of domestic violence and abuse
understand and define the full spectrum of domestic violence & abuse and abusive behaviours
build an understanding of the experiences of victims affected by intimate relationship and community abuse
to consider the cycle of abuse, a ‘victim’s journey’ and the reasons why victims stay in abusive relationships
consider the impact of domestic violence and abuse and what needs to be in place to leave an abusive relationship

The workshop aims to give participants a sound working knowledge of domestic & sexual violence & abuse and coercive control, and will emphasize the importance of inter-agency collaboration in responding to the needs of victims. The workshop will include the use of a powerpoint, presentation, DVD, case studies, group discussion and self-reflection.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive pack with notes to accompany the training, which can be used for future reference.

This workshop will be useful to anyone who wishes to extend their knowledge and understanding on the dynamics of domestic violence and abuse. Appropriate for practitioners and professionals including those working for voluntary organisations whose role involves working with/supporting women, children and families. Participants who have previously attended, range from Health, Social Services, CYP Services, Children’s Services, Youth Offending & Probation, Housing, Police & legal professionals, Women’s Aid, Counsellors & specific Domestic Abuse Services.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.

DV & the Impact of Trauma, Traumatic Transference, Boundaries & Self Care

This trauma informed workshop is particularly suited to teams of staff and/or volunteers working directly in agencies with client groups who are particularly vulnerable and where trauma is a consistent theme in the nature of the work delivered.

Participants will:

explore domestic abuse and the impact of trauma on victims
identify what motivates us to work and respond in the particular way that we do
explore the nature of projection, transference and counter-transference within a traumatic context
reflect on vicarious trauma: trauma that service users present and the traumatic transference that can occur
consider what happens to us when we make referrals in respect of our own experience within the context of the situation
consider boundaries and resistance
self-care

The workshop will include the use of a powerpoint presentation, DVD, group discussion and self-reflection. The learning exercises will be experiential, interactive and self-reflective.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive pack with notes to accompany the workshop, which can be used for future reference.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.

DV Risk Assessment, MARAC & Safety Planning

To enable front line practitioners to respond appropriately to victims of domestic, sexual and honour based abuse by increasing their knowledge about effective and safe interventions, to encourage disclosure, identify high and lower risk cases using risk assessment and the MARAC process, understand the risk poised by domestic violence abusers/perpetrators and completing safety planning with victims at all levels of risk.

The course brings together multi-agency risk assessment conferencing (MARAC) and safety planning and supports the adoption of a common DASH risk assessment that can be used by all agencies. It is focused to improve coordination between a range of protective interventions that can used by practioners and professionals. It promotes working in an inter-agency environment to respond to victims of domestic and honour based abuse, in order to encourage an effective, focussed and consistent response to those living with domestic violence and abuse.

The course is appropriate for practitioners and professionals including those working for voluntary organisations whose role involves working with/supporting women, children and families. Participants who have previously attended, range from Health, Social Services, CYP Services, Children’s Services, Youth Offending & Probation, Housing, Police & legal professionals, Women’s Aid, Counsellors & specific Domestic Abuse Services.

As this course focuses on risk and protective interventions, applicants should have as a minimum, attended both domestic a violence & abuse awareness training and safeguarding training.

The workshop will include the use of a powerpoint, presentation, DVD, case studies, group discussion and self-reflection.

Each participant will receive a comprehensive pack with notes to accompany the training, which can be used for future reference.

This workshop can also be provided in-house.