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Training for outreach workers

Improve the support you offer clients by learning about trauma-informed responses, strength based work and building resilience.

We've listened to what Outreach workers need, and developed specialist training to help you give the best possible support to your clients, including:

  • Trauma-informed responses to domestic abuse
  • Strengths based working
  • Building resilience and recovering safely

SafeLives Lead Trainer for Outreach:  

Outreach work develops essential skills for those working beyond the initial crisis support. This course will help you build resilience in clients and support them to maintain separation and live safely. You will use these skills to help clients caught in the cycle of separation and reconciliation to separate for good.  

Because this course focuses on skills to support clients, it is also a great starting point for non-DA professionals to understand how to support victims of domestic abuse within your own role being trauma informed.  The course shows the importance of step-down and resilience across all levels of risk

 

Outreach Foundation or Outreach Specilalist - what course is right for me?

If you're new to SafeLives training choose Foundation level . 

The Outreach foundation course includes SafeLives core 8 day training around domestic abuse and then 4 day Outreach specialist course. On completion of the Outreach foundation you will be classed as a qualified Outreach.

Choose Specialist level if you've completed a 12 day course with us before. The Outreach specialist course is aimed at those who have completed one the SafeLives foundation trainings (IDVA, Ypva, High harm high risk) and graduated, to be classed as a qualified Outreach.

If you wish to complete the 4 day Outreach specialist course without the foundation as standalone continued professional development (CPD), please contact the team to discuss.

OUTREACH FOUNDATION INFORMATION  - click here

OUTREACH SPECIALIST INFORMATION - click here 

 

 

Outreach Foundation 12 Days Course

Applications are now open until 12-April - Click here to submit your application

 For future dates please register your interest here

 

We are delighted to announce that, following an open competition, we have been awarded funding from the Ministry of Justice, under the Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVA) and Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA) Training and Infrastructure Fund.  With this provision, we are now able to offer the 2024 courses at a reduced cost - please see new costing below.

Course Dates

Course Code: OW24A
Delivery: Online via Zoom
Time: 09:30 – 16:30 (Daily)   * first day stars at 9:15AM  

Dates:  

Block 1: 14-16 May *3 consecutive days

Block 2: 11-13 June *3 consecutive days

Block 3: 16-17 July *2 consecutive days

Block 4: 16-19 September * 4 consecutive days

Learners must attend all 12 days of training. 

Course Details

Price: £2082.50* cost reduice for this cohort ONLY, back to £2450 for the next one

*Subsidies:  We are committed to supporting smaller and specialist services to access our courses. To help facilitate this, we offer a fixed number of subsidies (on two tiers) for services with an annual income of less than £1 million and less than £500,000. We use information on the application form to determine who to award the subsidised spaces to.

  • Subsidised (£200) - Learners from registered charities with an annual income of less than £1million.  

  • Super Subsidised (£100) - Learners from registered charities with an annual income of less than £500,000. 

Eligibility:

Our Outreach Foundation course is available to practitioners who meet the following eligibility criteria: 

  1. Anyone with a current, active caseload supporting domestic abuse victims. This is to ensure that you have a variety of cases for practice reflection as part of your assessment. 

  1. Has a line manager or equivalent supervisor within an appropriate organisation. They should confirm your application details and support you for the duration of the course and whilst you are completing the worksheets. 

To promote diversity and widen our learners’ network, we generally limit the number of successful applicants from the same organisation admitted to one course to two spaces

Please consider this before you apply to avoid any disappointment

Time Commitment: 

The Outreach Foundation course comprises 12 days online training, delivered in four blocks; e-learning modules which must be completed prior to attending each block of training; and the completion of four assessed worksheets that are submitted online. 

The first eight days of all our foundation courses cover what we consider the core essentials for anyone working with victims of domestic abuse. The final four days focus on the specialist subject. You must attend all 12 days. 

The list below provides guidance on recommended study time you should allow: 

  • Guided learning (training blocks, pre-course reading and e-learning modules) – 120 hours 

  • Worksheets – 50 hours 

  • Notional study – 130 hours 

  • Total course time requirement – 300 hours 

Key Course features

Why choose SafeLives Outreach Foundation course: 

  • SafeLives listened to what outreach workers need to support victims of domestic abuse. Enhancing essential skills and knowledge as part of a risk-led approach, with a particular emphasis on longer term recovery and resilience 

  • Outreach focuses on skills to move victims of domestic abuse into recovery using trauma informed practice and building resilience with cognitive behavioural approaches to maintain separation safely and move on with their lives.  

  • Outreach also explored the impact of economic abuse and rebuilding employment and education after domestic abuse. 

  • Our commitment to diversity and inclusion, including how this is relevant to your role as a domestic abuse practitioner. 

  • Input of guest speakers who are experts in their field delivering sessions including: Civil Law, Harmful Cultural Practice and Mental Health.  

  • Trainers with vast and current experience in providing frontline delivery to victims of domestic abuse. 

  • Trainers and guest speakers who are quality assured to ensure we continue providing the highest quality. 

  • Course content is reviewed by SafeLives authentic voice to ensure the content is relevant to real life experiences, and reviewed to keep up to date with recent research and legislative changes. 

Course Overview:

SafeLives Outreach Foundation 12 day course is made up of the initial 8 days of core domestic abuse knowledge plus 4 days of specialist outreach content focusing on supporting victims at medium risk of harm and recovery. The course aims to enhance your practical knowledge, helping you provide the best possible support for all victims of domestic abuse and their children, beyond the initial crisis point. 

8 days core content 

The content is designed to give learners the depth and breadth of understanding needed to support domestic abuse victims, survivors and their children in a multi-agency context from a whole family perspective. 

Topics include: 

  • Prosocial modelling, vicarious trauma and advocacy core skills 

  • Using the Dash Risk Assessment and effective safety planning 

  • Anti-racist practice 

  • Harmful practices  

  • LGBTQ+ 

  • Civil law including non-molestation options 

  • Criminal justice system 

  • Housing law and options 

  • Mental health 

4 days additional specialist outreach content 

This ensures professionals are able to respond to victims deemed at medium risk of harm, experiencing economic abuse and maintain separation safely. 

Topics include: 

  • Trauma, attachment and resilience theories and how they interact with domestic abuse 

  • Principles of cognitive behaviour therapy 

  • Group facilitation skills 

  • Impact of economic abuse and supporting recovery 

  • Key skills for supporting victims to maintain separation safely   

 

 

Outreach Specialist 4 days course

Applications are now open until 12-April - Click here to submit your application

 For future dates please register your interest here

 

We are delighted to announce that, following an open competition, we have been awarded funding from the Ministry of Justice, under the Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVA) and Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA) Training and Infrastructure Fund.  With this provision, we are now able to offer the 2024 courses at a reduced cost - please see new costing below.

Course Dates 

Course Code: OW24B
Delivery: Online via Zoom
Time: 09:30 – 16:30 (Daily)   * day 1 starts 9:15AM 

 

Dates:  

  • Day 1: 16th September

  • Day 2: 17th September

  • Day 3: 18th September

  • Day 4: 19th September

Learners must attend all 4 days of training.  

Course Details

Price: £718.25* *This was previously £845 prior to MoJ funding.

Subsidies:   We are committed to supporting smaller and specialist services to access our courses. To help facilitate this, we offer a fixed number of subsidies (on two tiers) for services with an annual income of less than £1 million (was £600, now £60 per learner) and less than £500,000 (was £350, now £35 per learner). We use information on the application form to determine who to award the subsidised spaces to.

Eligibility: Our Outreach Specialist course is available to practitioners who meet the following eligibility criteria: 

  1. Anyone with a current, active caseload supporting domestic abuse victims. This is to ensure that you have a variety of cases for practice reflection as part of your assessment. 

  1. Has a line manager or equivalent supervisor within an appropriate organisation. They should confirm your application details and support you for the duration of the course and whilst you are completing the worksheets. 

For professionals who have not completed a SafeLives Foundation course, they can complete this as CPD. 

SafeLives highly recommends non-DA professionals have a strong knowledge of domestic abuse case management 

 

Time Commitment:  

The Outreach Specialist course comprises 4 days online training, delivered in four consecutive days; e-learning modules which must be completed prior to attending each block of training; and the completion of one assessed worksheets that is submitted online. 

You must attend all 4 days. 

The list below provides guidance on recommended study time you should allow: 

  • Guided learning (training blocks, pre-course reading and e-learning modules) – 40 hours 

  • Worksheets – 15 hours 

  • Notional study – 40 hours 

  • Total course time requirement – 95 hours 

 

Course features 

Why choose SafeLives Outreach Specialist course: 

  • SafeLives listened to what outreach workers need to support victims of domestic abuse. Enhancing essential skills and knowledge as part of a risk-led approach, with a particular emphasis on longer term recovery and resilience 

  • Outreach focuses on skills to move victims of domestic abuse into recovery using trauma informed practice and building resilience with cognitive behavioural approaches to maintain separation safely and move on with their lives.  

  • Outreach also explored the impact of economic abuse and rebuilding employment and education after domestic abuse. 

  • Our commitment to diversity and inclusion, including how this is relevant to your role as a domestic abuse practitioner. 

  • Trainers with vast and current experience in providing frontline delivery to victims of domestic abuse. 

  • Trainers who are quality assured to ensure we continue providing the highest quality. 

  • Course content is reviewed by SafeLives authentic voice to ensure the content is relevant to real life experiences, and reviewed to keep up to date with recent research and legislative changes.  

Course Overview:

SafeLives Outreach Specialist 4 day course is made up of 4 days specialist outreach content focusing on supporting victims at medium risk of harm and recovery. The course aims to enhance your practical knowledge, helping you provide the best possible support for all victims of domestic abuse and their children, beyond the initial crisis point.  

The course is designed as further development following a SafeLives Foundation course, which covers the core domestic abuse knowledge you would want as a domestic abuse practitioner.  

4 days additional specialist outreach content 

This ensures professionals are able to respond to victims deemed at medium risk of harm, experiencing economic abuse and maintain separation safely. 

Topics include: 

  • Trauma, attachment and resilience theories and how they interact with domestic abuse 

  • Principles of cognitive behaviour therapy 

  • Group facilitation skills 

  • Impact of economic abuse and supporting recovery 

  • Key skills for supporting victims to maintain separation safely   

The Outreach Specialist 4 day course is aimed at refuge and recovery workers, Idva practitioners, domestic abuse practitioners and service managers who currently carry an active caseload of domestic abuse victims or are about to start doing so and have completed another SafeLives Foundation course to gain the Outreach qualification. 

The training can also be a great opportunity for non-DA professionals to gain CPD around the risks specifically around young people’s experiences of domestic abuse. SafeLives does however recommend that you have a strong knowledge of domestic abuse case management.  

 

Accessibility

We aim to provide inclusive training and will make reasonable adjustments to ensure that our training can be accessed by all. Please let us know whether you have any accessibility or diversity needs so we can out the right support in place. 

We are always seeking to improve our accessibility and work with learners to ensure we adapt our resources and training provision to be accommodating and provide the support needed. Reasonable adjustments can be made for both on-line and in  person training. 

In the last year we have been working with Sign Health and Vision Foundation to successfully improve accessibility for learners with a hearing loss or visual impairment. 

We welcome all applicants to work with us to improve our services and increase our reach. 

SafeLives is an equal opportunity training provider that is committed to diversity and inclusion. If you need any adaptations or support to complete an application form please email training@safelives.org.uk or call 0117 403 3224

 

Contact Us

For queries about eligibility, pricing or any other questions, call our training team on 0117 403 3224 or email training@safelives.org.uk