Family and Sexual Violence - The Intersection, Practice and Systems Guidelines and Tools

ECLIPSE offers a number of training opportunities for the family violence sector.

The Louise Nicholas Trust helps survivors navigate New Zealand's complicated court and social services system. They also provide input on legislation and government policy, and work to change community attitudes.

For more information and to register, visit the official event page.

This workshop features Louise Nicholas (The Louise Nicholas Trust) and Debbs Murray (ECLIPSE) in conversation about the intersection of sexual violence and family violence.

Learning outcome:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of both sexual violence and family violence indicators and impacts;
• Learn about current and relevant sexual violence and family violence legislation, court processes, and effective support strategies;
• Obtain a deeper understanding of Sexual violence in the context of Family Violence and how this is often missed, minimised or misunderstood as family violence;
• Gain understanding of coercive control as a tactic to coerce primary victims of family violence into acts of sexual violence;
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist family and sexual violence through acts of active submission and active compliance;
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and that are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of sexual and family violence.

Please direct all enquiries to the event organiser.