Southend, Essex and Thurrock Domestic Abuse Partnership

We recently delivered our first online training session to the staff of the Southend, Essex and Thurrock Domestic Abuse Partnership.

We spent the morning discussing everything to do with transgender people, exploring various different gender identities and examining how trans people are impacted by both domestic abuse and substance abuse.

After the training session we received the following feedback from SETDAB:

“The session with Claire was very enlightening, open and honest. The training has given the team a better insight and understanding of transgender people and the discrimination and difficulties faced by them. Claire provided in depth explanations and exercises to highlight the problems faced by transgender individuals in society and specifically the differences in the types of abuse they face in intimate and familial relationships. Its delivery was well thought through in its approach and done within an informal setting where we felt comfortable to ask questions.

This training will help us to share knowledge to others across our partnership and enable us to use the correct language when safeguarding transgender victims. It has also allowed us to have better insight into the different levels of trauma being experienced by transgender victims of DA and ensure that we adopt a trauma informed approach. We will take this learning and use it to develop our connections with the LGBTQ+ community and ensure that our services are inclusive and promoted.”