About this event
How can services/practitioners promote and provide more inclusive support to LGBTQ+ experiencing intimate partner violence?
This talk builds upon the Introduction to LGBTQ+ IPV/Domestic Abuse talk, with a focus on inclusion strategies.
1 in 3 LGBTQ+ individuals will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime, the same rate as cis heterosexual women, which has profound impacts on mental health.
Up to 42% of LGBTQ+ experiencing intimate partner violence will experience help seeking barriers. Ranging from recognising being a victim, fear of attending services and experiencing prejudice when accessing support.
This talk will explore the range of inclusion strategies to promote services access and inclusive communication tools for screening, assessment, and safety planning.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Increased awareness of strategies that promote more inclusive services access to LGBTQ+ individuals with experiences of IPV.
- Increased comprehension of inclusive tools that more effectively engage LGBTQ+ individuals in IPV assessment and safety planning.
- Increased awareness of wider LGBTQ+ IPV ecological wider support networks and resources that provide safe support.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Any service, health and social care practitioner, policing, education provider. policing and justice services engaging with LGBTQ+ with experiences of IPV.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- By the end of the talk, you will have increased knowledge to more inclusively engage and support LGBTQ+ with experiences of IPV.
Additional Resources:
- https://cademy.co.uk/wellbeing-insight/understanding-lgbtq-intimate-partner-violence
- https://cademy.co.uk/wellbeing-insight/lgbtq-intimate-parter-violence-inclusive-support
- Two brief digital learning modules. Understanding IPV might be helpful for those who have not attended the introduction talk.
- The inclusive support one for anybody for prior learning for this talk or anybody who can’t make it and/or prefers digital self-paced learning.
- Both use multi media with animation, voice overs and avatar based case studies on the latter module.
RECORDING
This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Steven Maxwell
Dr Maxwell (PhD) is a clinical academic with 20 years experience within the mental health care system, with diversity in supporting people experiencing complex health issues, including trauma. He has a PhD in Global Public Health from UCL, which was related to minority sexual health inequalIties. Over the recent three years he has passionately focused his research and teaching on driving work to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence. This work has focused on the UK in engaging with government to drive more informed policy and the development of practical resources to better support culturally competent service provision.
Website | www.wellbeinginsight.org.uk
X | @stevemax149
LinkedIn | Dr Steven Maxwell
