Mulit-Agency

Participants will develop a deep understanding of the grooming and silencing tactics used by perpetrators, along with how this relates to the law surrounding rape, childhood sexual abuse and consent. The training will also examine young people’s lived experiences of wider forms of sexual violence and harassment, both online and offline, exploring the gendered way in which boys and girls experience different forms of abuse and how this is occurring in a highly sexualised popular culture and media.

Participants will identify key prevention strategies, including practical demonstrations of how to engage with young people in preventing sexual violence. Participants will also learn a model of best practice on how to respond to disclosures of sexual violence sensitively and appropriately, whilst taking into consideration the impacts of sexual violence

 Upon completion of this course participants will have explored:

Sexual Violence Myths:

• Exploring perceptions of sexual violence within professional practice and wider social context
• Awareness of how individual, institutional and societal towards sexual violence can either inhibit or encourage disclosure

Sexual Violence Facts:

• Legal definitions of rape, sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault
• Consent in law and ethical practice
• Reality of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation
• Grooming and silencing techniques used by perpetrators

Young People’s Lived Realities:

• Understanding the gendered and intersectional nature of young people’s experiences of sexual violence – both online and offline
• Exploring young people’s lived experiences of sexual violence within our wider media and popular culture, including;
  • Doing’ Gender
  • Sexual harassment
  • Image based sexual abuse e.g. Revenge Pornography
  • Impacts of pornography

Impacts and Responses to Sexual Violence

• Understanding the impact of sexual violence on the body and the self
• Awareness of the different responses to sexual violence for young survivors and how they may be helping someone to survive

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