Technologically Facilitated Family Violence

ECLIPSEs Technology Facilitated Family Violence workshop will explore the definition of technologically facilitated family violence, the prevalence of the use of technology and digital communication tools, apps, resources are used as a medium to commit acts of coercive control in the context of family violence.

We will explore how to undertake an appropriate Risk Analysis for technologically based abuse and develop robust Safety Strategies to keep the victims you are protecting safe on devices.  This considers technological tracking capabilities of unexpected everyday devices such as pets' microchips, and electronic tools in homes such as automatic curtains openers, appliances apps and how these can be used to perpetrate harm.

This workshop will also provide tools to appropriately consider, recognise and respond to Technologically Facilitated Family Violence.

Through attending this course you'll:

• Obtain an understanding of the prevalence of technologically facilitated family violence
• Obtain an understanding of what, and how devices and apps can be utilised to track, monitor and control victims of family violence
• Understand how to include analysis of technology in all future risk analysis and develop robust safety strategies for all devices and apps
• How to record and gather evidence via electronic footprints
• How to recognise Technological violations
• How children's devices can be used by predominant aggressors to monitor primary victims.
• Toolkits and information to support ongoing safety for whānau and for you as practitioners

​After this workshop you will clearly understand the use of technology to perpetrate acts of family violence, how to scan for, identify and safely respond to risk.  This analysis will then become standard practice.

ECLIPSE training courses align with the principles of Te Aorerekura: National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence.