By joining this webinar, you will

• Gain knowledge of the evidence base underpinning bystander intervention as a public health approach to violence prevention.
• Gain an understanding of what bystanders can do to prevent and respond to gender-based harms and tackle the root causes of violence and abuse.
• Gain a better understanding of bystanders’ barriers when deciding whether to intervene and how to overcome them.

By joining this webinar, you will

• Gain a better understanding of factors that can increase the risk of drop-out or programme inefficiency.
• Learn about new research on risk factors that increase the risk of recidivism in perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
• Discover a tool used to reduce these risk factors developed by researchers at the University of Valencia.

The special issue edited by Marisol Lila and Gail Gilchrist, and published in Psychosocial Intervention, aims to better understand the therapeutic needs, risk factors, and treatment resistance in IPV perpetrators to provide evidence-based responses to improve intervention programmes. All articles of this issue are open access.

This is the first Italian project in which a Region asked for cooperation in developing an intervention model for male perpetrators of domestic violence, tailored to and based on an analysis of the area’s needs.

Project activites include the mapping of regional anti-violence services and an analysis of the needs of professionals in terms of detecting and understanding domestic violence.

Recognising that collaboration between police and different support service providers is key to effectively responding to intimate partner violence, we at WWP EN are proud to embark on a new project - TACTICS. Our TACTICS partners met in Greece in May to officially kick off the project. Over the next three years, the project team will undertake various tasks to enhance the knowledge and capacity of police and other frontline workers to respond to domestic violence. Visit the TACTICS webpage to learn more about our multidisciplinary team and upcoming outputs.

Working with perpetrators from migrant populations requires a culturally sensitive approach that considers the multi-layered, intersecting cultural and social factors they face. The MOVE project training “Culturally sensitive approaches to perpetrator work” took place in June - you can view the presentation materials here. Our upcoming MOVE online training will be held in October and will focus on practical tools and procedures for specialised services addressing gender-based violence to work with men with diverse backgrounds. Please subscribe to our events mailing list for details on the training agenda and how to attend.

The Fathers Rock team is busy finalising a capacity-building programme to improve the skills of frontline professionals working with men who are (becoming) parents and a multi-agency intervention model for institutions to support fathers better and promote men’s engagement in caring roles. 

We will share all these learnings through a European online conference, with a focus on raising engagement and accountability of men in their pathway to becoming caring fathers, on 21 March 2024 - Mark the date in your calendars, and we will reach out with more details soon.

In the next few months, our CONSENT team will work on preparing a campaign addressing youth and adults on the importance of consent for healthy relationships among youngsters. The campaign will take place in February 2024 and aims to instil a greater understanding of consent and boundaries. During our partner meeting earlier this month, we began brainstorming on the campaign plan in small groups, joined by our youth ambassador Lisa Andreozzi.
The campaign will be followed by a European conference on 1 March 2024 - stay tuned for more updates.