6 November, 16:00-17:30 CET

This roundtable is an occasion for probation, prison, police, and judicial sectors to discuss relevant questions, such as:

• What are the most important measures in protecting victims of violence and stopping perpetrators?
• How can responses by the judicial sector improve women’s safety? How can we reach diverse groups of victims?
• What role should probation, prison, police, and judicial sectors have in risk assessment in cases of intimate partner violence? How could risk assessment procedures be improved?
• What role could perpetrator programmes play in stopping violence and protecting survivors?

7 & 21 November, 15:00-17:00 CET

In 2023, we offered our members the chance to apply for grants. On 7 & 21 November, hear about the brilliant projects implemented by our grantees.

Join our two-part event to learn about the

• projects implemented with the 2023 WWP EN Re-Granting in Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Spain, the Czech Republic and Ireland
• central issues faced by perpetrator programmes in project countries
• outcomes and lessons learned of the projects

22 & 23 November, 9:00-16:30 CET

Working with high-risk perpetrators puts special demands on perpetrator interventions regarding risk management, safety planning, and collaboration with other agencies, especially victim support services and the criminal justice system.

Join our training to learn how to

• use risk assessment to increase the safety and effectiveness of your programme
• focus on the safety of your clients' families
• implement clear organisational protocols for responding to high-risk clients
• decide whether a client can be accepted into your programme
• address violent behaviour of perpetrators with complex needs (substance abuse, mental health trauma)

29 November, 10:00-11:00 CET

This event is part of the #ResponsibleTogether23 campaign.

This recording contains

• Welcoming words by Frances Fitzgerald (MEP) & Anna Esquerrà Roqueta (CEP)
• Keynote Speech: Unpacking what we mean when we say ‘high risk’ – Do we need new tools or a framework for thinking?
• Q&A on keynote with Chris Newman
• Presentation: Understanding the changing landscape of responding to
  and preventing sexual abuse in Europe
• Q&A with Kieran McCartan

This recording contains

• Presentation "Mapping survivor-safety-oriented perpetrator work among WWP EN members" by Ola Kurowicka (WWP EN)
  
• "MARAC: Multi-agency response to highest-risk domestic abuse – An example from Scotland"
• Q&A with Elizabeth Hughes (SafeLives), Jess Denniff (SafeLives), Gill McKinna (Caledonian System) and Fionna McMullen (ASSIST)
  

In this plenary workshop, Mr. Rakil presented a case vignette and reflected on the presence of trauma experiences in the life history of adults using IPV, and implications for work on change.

The lecture presents the results of European femicide research in recent years, with a specific focus on identifying high-risk cases and preventing femicides. Showing the outcome of the project FEM-UnitED to prevent femicide in Europe, the keynote contains empirical results as well as recommendations for improved prevention by states and institutions.

Watch our webinar to gain

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

By watching this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of how motivational interviewing and individual motivational plans can decrease the risk of perpetrators dropping out of your programme and increase the chance of behavioural changes.

Violence against older women is a gender-specific and significant social problem worldwide and in Europe, requiring a coordinated multi-agency response. The MARVOW 2.0 team presented a workshop, “Violence Against Older Women: A Multi-agency Response to the Institutional Violence”, at the WAVE annual conference earlier this month. The workshop, delivered by the coordinator team AÖF with the contribution of our Research and Development Manager Berta Vall, offered a deep dive into the response to combat violence against older women on an institutional level through the learnings of the MARVOW and MARVOW 2.0 projects. Berta Vall also discussed the upcoming work on risk assessment for perpetrators of violence against elderly women that WWP EN is developing.

Ensuring that perpetrator work is inclusive and supports men from diverse backgrounds is a vital priority of the MOVE project. Earlier this month at the WWP EN Annual Conference, the MOVE team a workshop on “Responding to effective and sustainable culturally sensitive work with migrant male perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence”. Last week, WWP EN also conducted a day-long online training on “Working with perpetrators from migrant populations in practice” led by Kostas Tassopoulos and Juho Vehniäinen from Lyömäton Linja (Finland).

We are proud that the past two years of work on the MOVE project have culminated in developing guidance for multi-agency collaboration for the work with perpetrators with migrant backgrounds, which will be published in December. As the work undertaken by the MOVE consortium has been highly impactful and much-needed, MOVE partners met in Florence earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a follow-up to the project based on lessons learnt within such a complex topic.

Through the ISEDA project, WWP EN promotes the effective and safe implementation of perpetrator programmes. At the end of September, ISEDA project partners met in Barcelona to work on the project's primary outcomes: a chatbot for victims/survivors of DV and a digital serious game to train police officers on DV and improve their interaction with victims/survivors.

The WWP EN team provided training to specialised services to enhance their understanding of the IMPACT Toolkit to measure the outcomes of their work. The team is also working on adapting the toolkit for family violence situations, focusing on young perpetrators.

In the next few months, the ISEDA European Community of Practice will be set up to share knowledge, resources and best practices on preventing and investigating DV and provide structured feedback on ISEDA solutions to the consortium.

Through the StoP project, we are developing an international StoP toolbox for community engagement against domestic violence and preparing the groundwork for implementing the StoP model in further countries. 

All project partners recently met in Hamburg to discuss current developments and next steps and share their concerns, reflections and best practices regarding future replication in further countries. The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences presented the final results of the desk research and interviews with StoP practitioners from Germany and Austria to develop the structure and content of the StoP toolbox. 

The first module in a series of training sessions for implementation partners is also starting. It will focus on introducing the StoP model and community engagement, including workshops with current StoP community organisers.