Scottish Women's Aid

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With domestic abuse affecting 1 in 4 women in Scotland, as individuals, employers, service providers and agencies we will all come into contact with victims, survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse. This session will provide an opportunity to explore the research, suggested approaches and responses to identifying and managing risk to work safely with both victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It aims to address debates about whether men experience domestic abuse with the same frequency and severity as women and whether the abuse and effects of the abuse are similar. It will explore tactics used by both perpetrators and victims which may mask, misrepresent or deny abuse and enable consideration of practical approaches to ensuring services are risk, trauma and domestic abuse informed when working with victim and perpetrators.

• Understand the key principles and practice approaches in assessing who is the perpetrator and who is the victim

• Gain increased understanding of methods for identifying foundational sources of risk for victims and survivors experiencing domestic abuse

• Have increased confidence in working with victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse

• Explore effective and efficient ways to promote the safety and well being of victims and children in a family impacted by a domestic abuse perpetrator.

• Understand how adopting key practice principles can improve outcomes for children and families by increasing their capacity to intervene with perpetrators, particularly as it relates to the safety and well being of children.

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011, initially as the Chair of South Lanarkshire Women’s Aid, prior to spending 9 years with East Ayrshire Women’s Aid where she was responsible for the East Ayrshire Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnership Learning and Development Programmes and the lead trainer in East Ayrshire HSCP for all GBV training.

Recently Judy has become a Safe & Together Certified Trainer and was part of the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff, alongside being part of the Scottish Women’s Aid expert Coercive Control training team supporting the wider roll out of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act (DASA) 2018.

Judy previously coordinated and delivered the CEDAR programme and works widely across a arrange of settings training and awareness raising and is passionate about improving the understanding of and response to women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Date

13:00-15:30, 14 December 2021

Contact

Rosemary Banner
01312266606

Theme

Social justice & poverty

Cost

£25.00

Attendance type

Online only

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