[WiLT] Domestic Violence Intervention Project Courses

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Domestic Violence Intervention Project Courses

Linked women's services work - 3 days
* London - 27th to 29th November 2006
* £220 statutory / £180 voluntary sector

This course is for people working in partner support services linked
to a perpetrator program. The course will cover:
* Establishing aims and policies of the service, its relationship with
the perpetrator services and with external systems such as the family
courts:
* Proactive contact, outreach and helping clients to access your
services
* Assessing the needs and vulnerabilities of your client group
* Setting up ongoing client work, workshop programs and support groups
* Case working with the perpetrator program
* Safety planning
* Parenting work
* Change monitoring
* Anger management working with sexual abuse


Domestic violence perpetrator work - 5 days
* London - 30th October to 3rd November 2006
* £560 statutory / £450 voluntary sector

This is a skills training course for working both individually and
with groups in a Domestic Violence Intervention Project. The course
will cover:

Principles of the intervention model
* Understanding domestic violence
* Children and domestic violence

Working with linked partner services
* Intervention work - the model of linked services
* The work of linked partner services
* Safety planning and change monitoring

Individual work and assessment with perpetrators
* Challenging denial and minimisation
* Motivational work
* Risk factors

Group work
* Using violence logs
* Parenting and domestic violence
* Using drama, role play and re-enactments
* Covering sexual abuse in a DV group
* Techniques for developing empathy
* Different techniques for different clients
* Practice group work

For more information on any of these courses please contact
kate at dvip.org


DVIP offers a program for men who have been violent and abusive
towards partners or ex-partners. We also run linked and integrated
victim support services and children services, ranging from expert
risk assessment for the family courts to child psychotherapy and
supervised contact.

DVIP is the longest running program of this kind in the UK and has
been training other agencies on its working model since 1995.

NB. DVIP trains primarily around work with men who abuse female
(ex)-partners and linked work with these women. DVIP cannot offer
specialist training on women's violence towards men or violence within
same sex relationships but our trainers can facilitate an exploration
into the implications of extending intervention work into these areas.

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