Topic outline
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This course is for anyone who may be likely to come into contact with women, children and young people affected by violence against women, but do not have ongoing relationships or in-depth work with those service users. These staff may not necessarily access specialist VAW Gender training as part of their role and could be from any team - from environmental planning or maintenance, through to HR, housing or communities, and all staff in between. Key audiences are paid (and unpaid) workers across all levels of the workforce and across all teams.
Aim:
This level of learning aims to build the foundational understanding of gender, and a gender analysis of VAWG. This learning is a building block, or gateway for all other enhanced, specialist and targeted learning.
Workers will be equipped with an understanding that working towards gender equality, safety and wellbeing is everyone’s business, and a national priority. No matter what you do or who you are, it is your job to make our organisation and our community safer and fairer for everyone, regardless of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity or disability.
The course will explore what ‘I’ as an individual practitioner can do to address inequality in my work and workplace, and what actions ‘we’ as an organisation can do to shift attitudes, address unequal distributions of power and prevent VAWG. All learning will be trauma-informed and survivor-centred and will signpost to relevant specialist services for additional support and information.
By the end of this training programme workers will be able to make a difference by:- Understanding concepts of gender; definitions and terminology
- Recognising manifestations and impacts of gender inequality (in workplace, wider society)
- Understanding that VAWG exists on a continuum, and that VAWG is both cause & consequence of women’s inequality
- Understanding that our organisational culture can also be an obstacle or a resource for tackling gender inequality
- Having the basic tools necessary to understand why/how I can mainstream gender in my work
- Understanding how gender justice is situated within a framework of intersecting social justice issues.
- Understanding how my attitudes and actions contribute to upholding or dismantling gender inequality and VAWG
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