Domestic Violence and Abuse - Trusted Professionals (DAPS Level 3) *

Course details

Aim: To assist professionals to build trusting relationships with survivors of domestic abuse by increasing their knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to fulfil the role of a trusted professional.

Dates: Coming soon

Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm

Venue: Kingsmeadow Learning Hub

Facilitators: Multi Agency facilitators

Booking: Contact [email protected]

Learning outcomes

Module 1: Gender, power and domestic abuse

• understand DA as a gendered, societal, global issue, framed within the Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) agenda
• understand how social disadvantage and discrimination impacts on the experience of DA
• explore the concept of power in relation to working in the field of DA
• understand how the systems in which we work can generate risk towards survivors and their children
• reflect on their own attitudes, beliefs and practice relating to DA

Module 2: Focus on perpetrators and children living with domestic abuse

• to increase awareness and understanding of the nature and impact of DA on children
• to increase awareness and understanding of perpetrators' behaviour and how they seek to extend their coercive and controlling behaviours over interventions by professionals and agencies
• to increase awareness of the potential negative effects on themselves of working in the field of DA
• to provide professionals with the opportunity to reflect on their attitudes, beliefs and practice and enable them to fulfil the role of a trusted professional

Module 3: Becoming a trusted professional

• place the survivor at the heart of their response
• establish a trusting relationship with the survivor
• recognise and utilise opportunities for early intervention
• create safe spaces for action for survivors
• help survivors identify and use their own resources and exercise their rights
• ask survivors what they need in the here and now

Suitable for

• Bournemouth University Framework: People identified in Group B1 - D
• Intercollegiate Framework level 3-5

This course will be suitable for anyone who comes into contact with victims of domestic violence and abuse, perpetrators and / or children living in families where domestic violence and abuse is occurring and who have significant, regular contact with victims and / or perpetrators and who might be expected, with training, to identify and respond to their initial support needs rather than immediately signpost or refer them to a specialist domestic violence and abuse service.

To attend this course, applicants must have previously attended a level 1 DVA awareness training course. You must have also previously attended a level 2 Domestic Violence and Abuse Ask and Act training course.

This course has been developed in collaboration with:

• DAPS multi-agency steering group
• Level 3 task and finish group
• Local survivors
• Women's Aid Federation of England
• Respect