Dear Champion.

Thank you for your continued engagement with the Workplace Domestic Abuse Champions Network.

As part of our ongoing commitment to support you as a Workplace Domestic Abuse Champion, we would like to offer you an opportunity to attend the Enhanced Domestic Abuse Champions Training. This will deepen your knowledge about the support that a victim of domestic abuse may need in the workplace and the role you can play in ensuring these needs are met. It will also provide you with additional awareness of issues faced when domestic abuse is prevalent.

During the training we aim to:-

• Review what is meant by the terms ‘domestic violence and abuse’ and seek to dispel some of the myths that characterise public perceptions in this area.

• Examine the barriers that victims of DVA commonly face when they start to think about leaving and who they commonly turn to for help.

• Explore the various stages that a victim may encounter when contemplating the life-changing decision to leave and how others can help to create space in which a victim may take action safely.

• Explore the 4 R’s – Recognise, Respond, Refer & Record – as the key elements of an effective response to DVA.

PLEASE NOTE: This session is only available to Workplace Champions within the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner's Champions Network, and if you have already completed it within the last 3 years, you do not need to register your attendance again.

We ask that only two people per organisation sign up to each session so that we can ensure that there are places for people from as many different organsiations as possible (please email enquiries@northumbria-pcc.gov.uk if you would like to request a visit by our Domestic Abuse Champion Trainers to your workplace).

If for any reason you can't make it to a session please do cancel your place as soon as you know so that it can be reallocated to another delegate on the waitlist.

Training takes around 3 hours to complete and is delivered via Microsoft Teams.

Please book your preferred training date via Eventbrite, and for more information email champions@northumbria-pcc.gov.uk