Responding to deaf victims of domestic abuse
Build your skills, knowledge and confidence. Improve your professional response and make victims of domestic abuse who are deaf or have hearing loss safer.
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Build your skills, knowledge and confidence. Improve your professional response and make victims of domestic abuse who are deaf or have hearing loss safer.
We have developed non-fatal strangulation (NFS) training for professionals, while working with the Institute for Addressing Strangulation, for a range of professionals who encounter victims and survivors of non-fatal strangulation
Our Foundation: Responding to young people affected by domestic abuse (YPVA) course aims to increase understanding of how domestic abuse differs for young people and how to make young people safer
Our Specialist: Training for outreach workers enables domestic abuse specialists to strengthen the support they offer to victims and survivors using a risk-led approach.
Our Responding to victims of sexual violence course builds skills, knowledge and confidence, to improve professional responses and make victims of sexual violence safer
Build your skills, knowledge and confidence. Improve your professional response and make victims of Domestic abuse with a visual impairment or who are registered blind safer.
This course supports employers to spot the signs of domestic abuse among colleagues and to respond in the most supportive and effective way.
Previous learnerI cannot praise you enough. I feel the course has really re-energised me to be the best advocate I can for the women I work with.
'Honour'-based abuse awareness in the workplace training aims to equip businesses with in-depth knowledge and enhanced skills to identify and respond appropriately to ‘honour’-based abuse and forced marriage.
Our Domestic abuse and responding well in the workplace training in Scotland aims to increase workplace knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse, enabling employers to develop and implement effective workplace policies.
Our 'Dynamics of domestic abuse training in Scotland' is designed to provide introductory knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse.
Our 'Closed Doors' - how to safety plan for South Asian women in Scotland gives frontline professionals the skills to provide safety plans for South Asian victims
Previous learnerI now feel more able to provide information and support to victims to enable them to make choices in how they would want to progress by having more understanding of the processes and what they can expect to happen.
Domestic Abuse (DA) Matters is a bespoke cultural change programme for police officers and staff in England and Wales, designed to transform the response to domestic abuse.
Domestic abuse training for family lawyers empowers family lawyers to take a trauma-informed approach to representing survivors of domestic abuse, understand the dynamics of abuse, recognise the effect of trauma on clients’ presentation, explain the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people, and enable clients to achieve best evidence. Moreover, the course keeps learners up to date with recent statute and case law.
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