Working with People who Use Coercive Control: What Practitioners Need to Know

This is the fifth webinar in the Effective Interventions & Coercive Control series of six new Coercive Control Webinars presented in partnership between CCWT and the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) This is part of the NSW Government's work to assist the sector on understanding and implementing practice that supports the new laws about coercive control.

This webinar will be held on Wednesday 10 December, from midday 12:00pm to 1:30pm.

Please note registrations have now closed

The webinar will help participants:

• Understand the services and ways of working that support “people who choose to use coercive control in intimate partner violence”

• Build familiarity with the NSW Coercive Control legislation and how it protects others from people who choose to use violence

• Identify strategies to use in supporting responses with children, young people and their families

• Emphasise the importance for practitioners to seek out, and actively listen to, all members of the family

• Recognise and acknowledge the impact of working with people who choose to use violence

• Be able to access other services and programs that may be of assistance.

Our panel of experts:

• Facilitator Dr Robert Urquhart, Barnardos

• Rodney Vlais, Independent Practitioner

• Uncle Greg Strong, ECAV

• Dr Grace Jennings, University of Wollongong & Relationships Australia

Questions can be submitted during registration and may be answered during the discussion.

The webinars in this series are for NGO staff and frontline service workers in the Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence (DFSV) sector. They may also be valuable to staff who work with children, young people, and their families who have experienced DFSV including coercive control.

We encourage teams to join the webinars as a group. Only one registration per device is required.

This event will be recorded, and will be available to watch on the 

CCWT Coercive Control  webpage. 

More information about training is also available on this page.