Women Experiencing Multiple Disadvantage

To equip professionals with the knowledge, empathy, and practical skills to effectively support women experiencing multiple disadvantage, with a focus on the intersections of domestic abuse, homelessness, substance use, mental health, and the criminal justice system.

Description

This training on Women and Multiple Disadvantage is designed to enhance understanding and confidence in supporting women facing intersecting disadvantages – particularly focusing on how homelessness, substance use, mental health and contact with the criminal justice system are linked with domestic abuse. Participants will:

  • Learn to define multiple disadvantage and explore how women’s experiences of domestic abuse differ from men’s.
  • Explore the profound impacts of trauma on women and how these experiences affect their engagement with services.
  • Develop greater empathy and practical skills to interact effectively with women navigating complex adversities, fostering a more informed, compassionate, and supportive approach in professional settings. 

Learning objectives

By the end of the session, delegates will be able to:

  • Define Multiple Disadvantage. 
  • Recognise how women’s experience of domestic abuse is different to men’s.  
  • Identify the impacts of trauma for women experiencing multiple disadvantage, and how this impacts engagement of services. 
  • Feel more confident in your interactions with and response to women experiencing multiple disadvantage. 

Who is this course for?

This course has been designed specifically for professionals who work with women who may be experiencing multiple disadvantage from any sector, including:

  • Frontline professionals in housing and homelessness services
  • Health and social care
  • Specialist domestic abuse services
  • Criminal justice and probation professionals

Level

Skills course

Please note: This is a skills course so ideally delegates will have attended domestic abuse awareness training.

Location

Live online via Teams.

Course Timings

This course contains 1 module and is 3 hours long in total

This includes a comfort break, space for questions and time for the delegates to evaluate and reflect after the delivery.

What will delegates receive as part of this course?

  • STADA Delegate Pack (Includes activity workbook, key messages from training, links to films shown in the course, domestic abuse directory and toolkits)
  • A copy of the slides 

Costs and Cancellations

Open courses:

£75 per delegate.

 

Group bookings:

Third Sector/Voluntary/Charity

Virtual/online: £900

DAHA Member: £810

In-person: £1050* (up to 25 delegates)

DAHA Member: £945

*Cost includes course facilitator travel expenses

 

Public Sector/Statutory (Local Authorities):

Virtual/online: £1500

DAHA Members: £1350

All online training fees are for up to 20 delegates (minimum 6 delegates to run a course).

DAHA prefer to cap online attendance at 20 to ensure all delegates feel able to fully engage. However, we can accommodate a maximum of 5 additional delegates upon request at a cost of £75 pp

 

Open courses:

£75 per delegate.

 

DAHA training courses are exempt from VAT

 

Cancellations post-agreement
Please refer to the terms and conditions within the website before you book

How does this fit with DAHA Accreditation?

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DAHA membership discount on Group Bookings = 10% Accredited/Accreditation Members and 5% Affiliated Members

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