Price: FREE for Nottinghamshire County Workers

Location: Online

This course is for workers and volunteers from all sectors who want to understand the impact of domestic violence and abuse on children and young people and be able to support them safely and effectively.

Learning outcomes:

• Increase practitioners’ understanding and knowledge of domestic violence and abuse and its impacts on children and young people

• Enable practitioners to provide better support to children and young people; this will include through safety planning, resilience building, exploring coping strategies and protective factors

• Provide workers with practical tools they can utilise with children and young people who have lived with or are living with domestic violence and abuse

• Increase workers’ understanding of appropriate referral pathways and signposting

Prerequisites:

None. Please note we advise all professionals attend our flagship course, Understanding and responding to Domestic Violence and Abuse.

Please bear in mind that this training does include reference to types of domestic abuse, if you are watching or taking part in this training in a shared building, if possible, please do so in a space that is not accessed by other people for the duration of the training.

It is possible that any training about domestic abuse has the potential to impact on each of us personally, please be aware that this may be the case before accessing the training.

Cancellation

Please note failure to attend the course without prior cancellation may result in a charge for your place. If you do wish to cancel, you can do so through your Eventbrite confirmation or by getting in touch with our team at training@equation.org.uk.

Cost

Please be aware: due to the conditions of our funding, this training is free to people working in Nottingham City and County – chargeable outside of these areas.

We are monitoring the attendance list and you will be asked to pay if you do not qualify for a free ticket.

Funded by

This course has been funded by Nottinghamshire County Commissioners.

Find all Equation’s training sessions here.