Family and Sexual Violence - The Intersection - Practice and Systems Guidelines and Tools
The powerful combination of Louise Nicholas (The Louise Nicholas Trust) and Debbs Murray (ECLIPSE) facilitating this Combined Family and Sexual Violence workshop, is lived experience as a teaching experience at its best. This workshop critically recognises that there is a powerful intersection between family and sexual violence, and that victims of family violence are regularly also victims of sexual violence. How to connect, recognise, respond, refer and support to ensure whānau safety and wellbeing.
Description
This Family and Sexual Violence - The Intersection, Practice and Systems Guidelines and Tools workshop will see Louise and Debbs take you on a powerful journey into their combined lived experiences of both sexual and family violence. The sharing of these real and raw experiences will unquestionably support greater understanding of appropriately informed practice response and provide guidelines to our practitioners and responders on the frontline of family and sexual violence.
By combining Louise and Debbs lived experience of both family and sexual violence, with their specialist practice knowledge, skills and capability, the true position of sexual violence in family violence perpetration will be exposed. With an increase in awareness of indicators of sexual violence within family violence, the intersection between the two can no longer be overlooked. Sexual violence can and is a form of family violence, and with increased practitioner knowledge, the voices of our primary victims of family and sexual violence will be raised.
Through attending this course you'll:
- Obtain a deeper understanding of both sexual violence and family violence indicators and impacts
- Learn about current and relevant sexual violence and family violence legislation, court processes, and effective support strategies.
- Obtain a deeper understanding of Sexual violence in the context of Family Violence and how this is often missed, minimised or misunderstood as family violence.
- Gain understanding of coercive control as a tactic to coerce primary victims of family violence into acts of sexual violence.
- Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist family and sexual violence through acts of active submission and active compliance.
- Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and that are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of family violence.
This training courses align with the principles of Te Aorerekura: National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence.
This workshop is available for private organisations also.
Who should attend?
This workshop is for any practitioner who works in the social sector and works with people.