Skills Courses

This course enables Champions to come together and reflect on their role in embedding culture change through raising awareness about domestic abuse. The training will ask Champions to consider what actions they will take to promote a coordinated response to domestic abuse.

Professionals and workers can empower their customers/clients to understand what legal tools and powers are available to survivor/victims of domestic abuse. Those supporting should ensure that all actions are survivor-led and part of a coordinated response that includes the specialist domestic abuse services.

Aim: Housing teams have the skills, knowledge and tools to write case notes that support an effective response to domestic abuse.

Through understanding the stages of change and recognising the intersecting barriers faced by victim-survivors, this course aims to teach delegates how to tailor support effectively. Equipping delegates with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to understand what and how to apply the key principles of motivational interviewing.

To equip frontline practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively conduct DASH risk assessments, identify high-risk cases of domestic abuse, stalking, and honour-based abuse, and take appropriate next steps to ensure the safety and support of victim-survivors.

Equipping teams and individuals with the skills, knowledge and tools to share information confidently and proportionately in a way that increases victim/survivor safety and holds perpetrators to account.

This course aims to equip managers with the confidence, knowledge, and practical skills to support staff experiencing domestic abuse, ensure safe workplace practices, and respond to team members raising concerns about their customers. The training promotes a survivor-led, intersectional, and legally informed approach.

This course aims to provide healthcare professionals and carers with insight into the impact of domestic abuse on the emotional and physical wellbeing of individuals with cancer, offering early intervention strategies and an overview of the Cancer and Domestic Abuse toolkit to enhance support and safety for victim-survivors.

To enhance healthcare professionals' knowledge, confidence, and practical skills in recognising and responding to victim-survivors of domestic abuse who may be at increased risk of suicide. The course includes trauma-informed approaches, safety planning, and effective multi-agency collaboration to prevent harm and improve professional awareness.