Level 2: Safe Advice Giving & Support (1 day, Min 8, Max 16, £100.00 per person)
Who is the training suitable for?
 The training is intended for workers who have received some basic domestic violence and abuse awareness and are within agencies which may encounter domestic violence and abuse as part of their job, such as housing, health, social security, social services, consumer agencies and so on, but who do not have a specific remit for dealing with victims or perpetrators.

What is Safe Advice Giving & Support ?
 The training offers a framework for dealing respectfully, effectively and safely with victims of abuse when encountered, building on accepted standards of good practice and emphasising the safety of the woman or other victim experiencing the abuse. Course contents include
  • effect of abuse on the victim - how will they be thinking an feeling?
  • safety - how you minimise the chance of your endangering them further?
  • helpful neutrality - how can you be supportive without being partisan
  • avoiding advice giving - facilitating the victim’s own solution

The course features the use of skilled improvisational actors to enable skills practice with ‘victims’ in a safe manner.