Enhancing Workforce Responses to Sexual Violence - BALLINA

Enhancing Workforce Responses to Sexual Violence: A Free Training Program

Event Description

Women Up North, in partnership with the Family Support Network, is proud to announce a new, free, face-to-face, one-day training program for workforces across Northern NSW. Funded by the Department of Communities and Justice through the Sexual Violence Project Fund, this program aims to enhance workforce responses to sexual violence.

Training Overview

The training program is designed to empower staff with the knowledge, skills, and understanding necessary to effectively support survivors of sexual violence. It focuses on how to support survivors using a survivor-focused, feminist-based, and trauma-informed approach. The training is relevant for a wide variety of workers though it is not designed for workers with a high level of skill in sexual violence response, or clinicians working in sexual violence.

Training Details:

• Content: The program covers the latest understanding, prevalence, impacts, and gendered nature of sexual violence, as outlined in the NSW Sexual Violence Plan.
• Topics: Includes comprehensive content on male violence against women, domestic violence, and all forms of sexual violence.
• Facilitators: Sessions are led by experienced trainers in gendered violence, survivor recovery and support, and violence prevention.

Session Information:

• Format: Face-to-face training
• Timing: 9:15 am to 3:00 pm
• Catering: Lunch and Morning Tea provided
• Locations: Covering all seven LGAs in Northern NSW

Contact Information:

• Phone: 0474 100 418
• Fax: (02) 6621 8819
• Email: neti@wunh.org.au
• Mailing: PO Box 5197, Lismore NSW 2480

Acknowledgment of Country

Women Up North Housing acknowledges the people of the Bundjalung nation, the traditional custodians of the land comprising the Northern Rivers of NSW. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.