This two day multi-agency training course aims to give front line agency staff an in-depth and practical understanding of how to identify, understand and respond to clients experiencing domestic violence. The course includes a number of experiential exercises and case studies and covers the following areas:

Definitions and statistics

Different forms of domestic violence and their impact on clients

Power and control dynamics within abusive relationships

Reasons why clients may remain in or return to abusive relationships

Factors affecting specific client groups including clients with insecure immigration status, disabled clients, clients from black and minority ethnic communities, lesbian and gay clients and older clients

Ideas for improving agency ability to identify clients affected by domestic violence and provide an environment which empowers and enables clients to make disclosures

Ways in which professionals can respond effectively to domestic violence including the ability to make appropriate referrals

Support service information

Confidentiality and documentation

Risk assessment and safety strategies

We also provide tailor-made training courses for different agencies. Please contact us and we would be happy to discuss this with you.
To book a training course, e-mail administrator@wtrust.entadsl.com or fax 020 7034 0305.
For more information, call 020 7034 0303 / 0304.
See also other Woman's Trust training courses listed earlier.

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