Training

Respect Training Calendar 2012

We are delighted to announce our new training calendar for 2012. More dates for more courses will be announced soon.

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Training courses description

Cross Cultural Working with Domestic Violence Perpetrators

  • Tuesday 31st January 2012, London, Old Street

  • Tuesday 16 October 2012,York

Course aims:

This one-day course is for practitioners working with domestic violence perpetrators or survivors, to help participants explore what is meant by culture, how that connects with domestic violence and how to work productively with those connections in challenging domestic violence and promoting safety. 

Trainers: Thangam Debbonaire.

Cost: £100 Respect members. £130 non members. To download a booking form click here. 

Running Groups for Men using Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), essential skills for groupwork facilitators, 6-day course

  1. Wednesday 13, Thursday 14, Friday 15 and Wednesday 27, Thursday 28,  Friday 29 June 2012, York

  2. Monday 8, Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10,  Monday 22, Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 October 2012, London, King's Cross

Course aims:

This 6-day course is for practitioners who are new to work with perpetrators or want to improve their skills. It includes the following elements:

  • To examine: explanations and understandings of domestic violence perpetrators; different key models of work currently available within the domestic violence perpetrator sector and how to access these; the importance and process of co-gendered group facilitation 

  • To increase: understanding of the process of working in groups with violent men; the confidence of workers to challenge violent men on their behaviour; skills in understanding risk in a domestic violence context and information that may necessitate a re-evaluation of risk levels; core skills and competencies in the following areas:

1.     Assessing perpetrators, 2.     Holding perpetrators accountable for their behaviour, 3.     Analysing violent incidents, 4.     Sexual respect, 5.     Safeguarding

  • To increase understanding of how processes of case management, supervision and treatment management should work 

  • To provide information as to where all of the above fits within the current Respect Accreditation process

Trainers: to be confirmed.

Cost: £600 Respect members, £750 non-members. Booking form

Women using violence and abuse in intimate relationships

*new, pilot course offered at an introductory price* 

  1. Wednesday 16 February 2012 London, Old Street;

  2. Tuesday 3 July London, Old Street

Course aims:

1.       To revise definitions for intimate partner violence

2.       To identify how women's use of violence fits into these definitions, exploring context, meaning and impact

3.       To practice using the Respect matrix for assessing who is doing what to whom with reference to women

4.       To provide simple statistical information about the extent and nature of women's use of force

5.       To share challenges in responding to women's use of force

6.       To disseminate best practice in responding to women's use of force

Trainers: Natalie Talbot and Clare Green.

Cost:  £50 Respect members, £60 non-members.

Booking form

Working with young peoples' violence in close relationships 5 day training course

  1. Thursday 1, Friday 2 and Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 March - Bristol

  2. Tuesday, 11, Wednesday 12 and Wednesday 19, Thursday 20, Friday 21 September - London

Course aims:

This five-day course will equip practitioners to use the Respect toolkit on working with young people's violence in close relationships. The toolkit has been developed and piloted in a wide range of settings and is used across the UK with 13-19 year olds. The toolkit includes guidelines for assessment and safe working practice as well as practical exercises for working one to one and in groups (including a DVD of discussion-stimulus materials. The training will include full access to the online toolkit and the accompanying DVD materials.

For further information and the booking form please click here.

Trainers: Kate Iwi & Julia Worms - Respect Young People's Service, Chris Newman and Mike Feeney.

Cost: £600 Respect members, £750 non-members.

DIY evaluation for your DVPP: prove your worth to funders, commissioners and others

Tuesday 21 February 2012, London, Old Street

Course aims:

A one-day course for managers and others who want to improve and develop ways of monitoring and evaluating your work. Course includes evaluation methods, analysing the findings and presenting these for use in fundraising and self evaluation for improving the service. 

Trainer: Thangam Debbonaire

Cost: £100 Respect members, £130 non-members. Booking form

Working with male victims of domestic violence

  1. Wednesday 22 February, London, Old Street;

  2. Wednesday 25 April 2012, Bristol; 

  3. Wednesday 13 June, London, Old Street;

  4. Wednesday 12 September, York

Course aims:

This one-day course will provide knowledge about the experiences of male victims of domestic violence including how these may differ from women's experiences and information about the nature, scale and incidence of intimate partner violence against men. Participants will practice using skills in responding appropriately to male victims and will identify specific experiences and difficulties faced by specific groups of male victims such as gay men or men from specific ethnic backgrounds. Participants will get a hard copy of Respect's Toolkit for work with male victims of domestic violence . 

Trainers: to be confirmed.

Cost: £100 Respect members, £130 non-members. Booking form

Working with men using intimate partner violence

  1. Tuesday 13 March 2012, London, Old Street;

  2. Tuesday 8 May 2012, Bristol;

  3. Thursday 12 July 2012, Manchester;

  4. Tuesday 13 November 2012, Birmingham

Course aims:

This one-day course is for workers from across the health and social care spectrum who are likely to come into contact with domestic violence perpetrators and want to know more about how to respond appropriately. By the end of the training day participants will be able to: Identify perpetrators of domestic violence, understand the dynamics of why perpetrators use violence, assess the risk posed by the perpetrator to (ex)partner and children, undertake initial motivational work with perpetrators to help explore their use of violence, understand the differences between empathic and collusive working in a domestic violence context and make appropriate referrals to other agencies upon identification

Trainer: Colin Fitzgerald

Cost: £100 Respect members, £130 non-members. Booking form

REDAMOS advanced: using the Respect client information database for producing reports, case and risk management, monitoring staff workload

  1. Tuesday 20 March, London, Old Street

  2. Monday 3 September, York, Explore Library Learning Centre

Course aims:

A one-day course for existing users of REDAMOS, both frontline staff and managers, to learn or improve ability to run reports and interpret these for self, organisational, case and risk management and for reporting to funders. Please note: you need to bring your own laptop and it has to be PAT tested if you attend the York training (venue requirement).

Trainer: Thangam Debbonaire

Cost: £100 Respect members, £130 non-members Booking form

Risk assessment, 2-day course

Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 June 2012, London, Old Street

Course aims:

A two-day course specifically designed for practitioners working in domestic violence perpetrator programmes, with perpetrators or victims. The course includes learning about different types of risk factors, how to assess the significance of these, using the Respect risk identification tool, risk management in DVPPs and dealing with the implications. Case studies allow participants to practice using the information.

Trainer: Thangam Debbonaire

Cost: £200 Respect members, £260 non-members

Booking form

Redamos basic training

  1. Monday 28 May, York

  2. Wednesday 4 July, London, Old Street

Course aims:

A one-day course for anyone who is thinking about using or a new(ish) user of Redamos as their DVPP case management and outcome measurement system. Redamos (developed by Respect) is the only purpose built online database for domestic violence intervention programmes which has been developed by and with practitioners, with practitioners in mind as much as managers, funders and research. It includes an electronic version of the CAADA RIC, a suitability assessment tool (developed by Calvin Bell) and outcome measurement (developed with Russell and Rebecca Dobash), as well as client information pages and space to record client work in real time and at speed. This allows for accurate measurement of the total amount of time needed to work with and on behalf of clients, monitoring workload, measuring group participation as well as reductions in violence and risk. Please note: you need to bring your own laptop and it has to be PAT tested if you attend the York training (venue requirement).

Trainer: Thangam Debbonaire

Cost: £100 Respect members, £130 non-members

Booking form

 

The Fundamentals of Expert Domestic Violence Risk Assessment

A one-day course for anyone wanting to gain a better understanding of what is involved in the preparation of an expert domestic violence risk assessment for the family courts in private law proceedings, especially those who are considering undergoing training to take on such assessments. The demand for this vital work is increasingly outstripping the supply of suitable assessors, a concern that Respect would like to address. Calvin Bell has developed a well-earned reputation over many years in this area of work; he will give an overview of what this work involves, the limitations of risk assessment technology, and the skills and knowledge required of experts.

This introductory day will be followed by an intensive 10-day training course (in two five-day blocks) aimed at professionals with at least a first degree and with previous experience in the domestic abuse field, who wish to undertake expert witness work. The full course will equip participants to deliver expert assessments based upon ‘structured professional judgment', using The Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Framework.

Trainer: Calvin Bell

Cost: £100 Respect members, £130 non-members

Booking form

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