To give staff the knowledge, skills and frameworks to identify and address child abuse and partner abuse in the Te Whatu Ora Health context.

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Description

Content Description:
• Topics include theory, power, control and victimisation.
• Partner abuse: Why screen? How to ask the question? What to say when she/he says yes.
• Discussing policy around reporting and working on getting this right.
• Epidemiology of family violence and effects of violence on children: how common, does it matter?
• Child abuse: principles and practice and the Child Protection National Alert system.
• Professional dangerousness: responses that don’t help.
• Role of Oranga Tamariki and the Police (Family Harm Team): what will they do when we refer?
• How to access and sign up to the eProsafe database and the benefits.

Mandatory Online Pre-Training on healthLearn: Course ID RGCH008. Course: Violence Intervention Programme Orientation and Pre-training Module (healthlearn.ac.nz)