People who have suffered from violence require special attention, so the professionals who help them must have special training. The National Training Centre for Combating Gender-Based Violence of the High School of Public Governance provides such training and helps professionals become more effective in their work.
One of these events was a three-day training for social work professionals, heads of day centres and mobile teams of social and psychological assistance to victims of domestic and/or gender-based violence. As part of this programme, 40 people improved their skills.
As always, the trainers were specialists: Bohdan Rudenko, UNFPA Municipal Consultant, Oleksandra Trach, Head of the Shelter Department for Women and Children Victims of Domestic Violence, Tetiana Tomchuk, Head of the Methodological Support Department of Social Work at the Vinnytsia Regional Centre for Social Services, and Ruslan Horchynskyi, an expert trainer from the Kyiv City State Administration’s Service for Children and Families.
It is important to note that such trainings are only one component of a comprehensive support system for professionals working with people affected by violence. They are aimed at expanding knowledge and improving professional skills on the mechanisms of working with victims, detecting and identifying cases of violence; providing social and psychological assistance, developing practical algorithms for providing such services, referral algorithms and practices of self-regulation and recovery of specialists.
In addition, the participants receive feedback on their knowledge, skills and emotional reactions, the opportunity to improve their methods and develop new approaches to work, and to establish links with colleagues from other regions and organisations.
According to the organisers, as a result of the training, specialists become more skilled and emotionally stable. This allows them to provide quality and effective assistance to people who have suffered from violence, and contributes to a better recovery of victims.
