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Bradford Specialist Sexual Violence & Abuse Advisory Group
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Bradford Specialist Sexual Violence & Abuse Emerging Science & Voices: A Conference Advisory Group Exploring Recovery Opportunities & Evidenced Outcomes.
Date: 23rd January 2013 Venue: T he Norcroft Centre (University Of Bradford) Conference Agents
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The conference will be filmed by the University of Bradford’s Digital Media Academy.
Conference Overview “I believe these people until they are proven wrong.” Pierre Janet 1890 Sexual violence and abuse service development takes place in what can often seem like an endless re - writing of the rulebook, especially around funding. Dr Judith Herman Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School - wrote in her groundbreaking book (Trauma and Recovery) that we often find: ‘The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness’. This very normal human response often feeds decision makers cultural disbelief and high level political indifference to sexual violence victim/survivor support needs (being seen as to complex a social issue to deal with). Victims of sexual crime are a very large, but also very hidden, and currently relatively silent community of interest in the UK. The statistics are complex, as there is no agreed universal definition of sexual abuse. What is agreed is that the prevalence rates for sexual victimisation are believed to be approximately 1 in 4 for females, and 1 in 6 for males. It is also agreed that most sexual abuse experiences takes place in childhood and are never reported to criminal justice agencies. It’s possible that most sexual violence/ abuse crimes are never disclosed to anybody. However, the negative outcomes for the victim, their family/friends, and the whole community could well be the foundation of many social and health issues.
We actually don’t know the true extent of sexual crimes against either children or adults. We just know it seems to grow in prevalence the more we research it. The physical wellbeing outcomes across the lifespan are increasingly being evidenced by research like the ACE studies for example. They clearly evidence the major social and health issues which arise for sexual violence/abuse victim/ survivors following their abuse beyond the psychological distress alone. This conference will offer a glimpse of the emerging knowledge and debate around the psychological and physical service development needs, victim/survivors need. This set against the Coalition Government’s policy of localising funding priorities via Local Authorities, GP Commissioners and Police and Crime Commissioners. Again Dr Herman captures the challenges we face in creatively and strategically meeting the needs of sexual violence / abuse victim/survivors: ‘The study of psychological trauma has a curious historyone of episodic amnesia. Periods of active investigation have alternated with periods of oblivion’. We hope you will join us at this important conference to explore how we avoid the oblivion of victim/survivors needs in these changing times and build service provision based on victim/survivor voiced needs and robustly researched scientific evidence.
Conference Aims
Key Themes:
• Evidence the emerging voices of victim/survivors and their supporters
• Current psychological, narrative and epidemiological insights.
• Evidence the growing understanding of the general health outcomes facing victim - survivors.
• Female, child and male CSA/CSE/Rape survivor specialist workshops.
• Explore the possibilities of a public health empowerment strategy for sexual violence / abuse victim / survivors.
• Drugs misuse and CSA male survivors.
The conference will run three workshop strands: Female, Child and Male and close with an open debate looking at the future of sexual violence/abuse service provision and what is stopping us from engaging proactively with the possibilities the scientific and narrative evidence offers us.
• Measuring recovery outcomes ‘Performance Indicator’ tools and confident PI application cultures. • Designing sexual violence/abuse service provision based on robust scientific evidencing.
Conference Details: Date: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
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Venue: The Norcroft Centre (University Of Bradford)
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Joint Chairs
Conference Agenda:
Bob Balfour (Survivors West Yorkshire) Jane Gregory (Bradford Rape Crisis)
08:15 - 09:00 Registration
Debate Chair
09:00 - 09:10 Introduction: Joint Chairs: Bob Balfour (Survivors West Yorkshire) and Jane Gregory (Bradford Rape Crisis)
Monica Hill Monica Hill is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, Senior Therapist and Supervisor at BRC&SASS. She is also a Senior Adult Psychotherapist at SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Monica originally joined Rape Crisis as a volunteer in 1982 and since qualifying has developed counselling services and therapeutic group work for the agency.
09:10 - 09:20 Clare Shaw (Poet) 09:20 - 09:30 West Yorkshire Police Commissioner: Keynote 09:30 - 10:00 ‘Adult Survivors and their Families’: Dr Diane Sedden and Dr Anne Kray (University of Bangor)
Workshops: Exploring Intervention Models & Outcomes
10:00 - 10:30 Evaluating recovery: ‘Taking Back Control’ research: Dr Nicole Westmarland (Durham University)
All delegates should be able to attend each workshop theme subject to numbers. (A workshop options system or personal rota plan will be available on the day).
10:30 - 10:55 Coffee
1) Female: Facilitated by Jane Gregory of Bradford Rape Crisis in partnership with Kirkless Rape Crisis and Leeds Rape Crisis.
11:50 - 12:30 Workshops Child / Female / Male (Cycle 2)
This joint workshop by Rape Crisis in West Yorkshire will explore the wellbeing outcomes generated using a female centred approach to both therapeutic and psychosocial interventions with female survivors of sexual violence/abuse.
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and networking
2) Child: Facilitated by Emma Holmes of the Church of England’s Children Society’s Hand In Hand Project in partnership with West Yorkshire Police, The BLAST Project, Barnardos Turnaround and Social Services. This workshop will explore working with children and young people who have experienced sexual violence/abuse mostly in a CSE context. It will assess the innovative joint working model being piloted by the agencies leading the workshop (The pilot being based at a West Yorkshire Police Station). It will highlight the current and projected outcomes being achieved by this partnership.
3) Male: Facilitated by Bob Balfour of Survivors West Yorkshire in partnership with Ellie McNeil of Project 6 (www.project6.org). This workshop will explore male survivors within a drug misuse context and the generation of positive intervention outcomes. It will also explore general male survivor narratives around recovery - allowing participants an opportunity to discuss the needs of male survivors within an informal workshop. The workshops primary aim will be to offer insights into current male service provision models and future service development opportunities, especially within drug misuse services.
11:00 - 11:40 Workshops Child / Female / Male (Cycle 1)
13:35 - 14:15 Workshops Child / Female / Male (Cycle 3) 14:25 - 15:00 Emerging physical science: ‘Wounds That Wont Heal: ACE study (film overview) 15:00 - 15:30 Professor Thanos Karatzias: The British Psychology Society Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Working Party “Child Sexual Abuse: Impact and Recovery”. 15:30 - 15:55 Coffee 16:00 - 16:40 Open debate: Treating The Core Issues (where might it take us?) 16:40 - 16:50 Clare Shaw (Poet) 16:50 - 17:00 Summing up and close
Speaker Biographies Police and Crime Commissioner (West Yorkshire)
Dr Nicole Westmarland
Booked and confirmed (subject to Policing priorities)
Dr Nicole Westmarland is a senior lecturer in Criminology at Durham University where she co-chairs the Crime, Violence and Abuse research group. She has researched a range of forms of violence and abuse, and was pleased to be invited to come to Bradford to talk about the ‘Taking Back Control’ scale, used to measure the impact of Rape Crisis services on the health, mental health and well-being of victim-survivors. Nicole was previously Chair of Rape Crisis (England and Wales) and continues involvement on a local level, as trustee of Darlington Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service.
Prof. Thanos Karatzias Prof. Thanos Karatzias is a Clinical and Health Psychologist (Consultant - NHS Lothian) currently based at Edinburgh Napier University. Prof. Karatzias completed his PhD in 2001 at Stirling University; since then he has held academic posts in Stirling University and Queen Margaret University and clinical posts in NHS Lothian. Prof. Karatzias has long standing experience in health related research in a number of areas including psychological trauma and Post traumatic Stress Disorder, psychosis, substance use, eating disorders, stress and well-being, plus the theoretical modelling of causes of mental health distress and co-morbidity. At present Prof. Karatzias sits on the Scottish Government Reference Group for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and is the Chair of the British Psychological Society Working Party for Survivors of Sexual Abuse (BPSSS). Thanos will talk about the mental health consequences of sexual abuse and his work on psychosocial interventions that aim to promote clinical and personally meaningful recovery. He will also explore directions for future research in these areas.
Dr Diane Seddon Diane Seddon is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University and Regional Lead (North Wales) for the All Wales Academic Social Care Collaboration. Diane has been closely involved in the development of a 16-year health and social care research programme. Her areas of expertise include assessment and care management and service user experiences of health and social care provision. Diane has advised on national policy development, including as a Specialist Advisor to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, House of Commons and led reviews of national policy implementation for the Department of Health and Welsh Government. Along with her colleague, Anne Krayer, Diane will speak about a recently completed study looking at the experiences and support needs of adults who experienced sexual abuse during childhood.
Dr Anne Krayer Dr. Anne Krayer is a researcher at the Centre for Mental Health and Society, School of Sociology, at Bangor University. She has joined the Centre for Applied Research and Evaluation Sciences in 2008 and is now part of the team of the newly formed Centre for Mental Health and Society. Anne has worked on a range of research projects in the area of health and social care and is talking with her colleague Diane Seddon on a recently completed project looking at the experiences and support needs of adults who experienced sexual abuse in childhood. Anne’s most recent research project focuses on the needs of individuals with mental health and substance misuse problems.
Bob Balfour Bob is the founder of Survivors West Yorkshire (SWY). It has operated for over 12 years. He’s sat on UK National, regional and local specialist sexual violence strategic bodies. Historically he’s advised the Home Office, Dept Of Health, Survivors Trust, CEOP, States of Jersey Health Dept. Most recently he sat on the advisory Board of the recent ‘Time To Be Heard’ (TTBH) pilot survivor acknowledgement forum commissioned by the Scottish Government. He also worked with Newcastle University exploring restorative justice models and their potential use in looked after care abuse inquiries as part of (TTBH). Bob is currently completing his BSc in Psychology with Counselling and he is interested in Social and Community Psychology perspectives with a growing interest in Narrative approaches to research within wellbeing service development and evaluation.
Clare Shaw A founder member of the Liverpool-based radical campaigns group Mad Women and the user-led training organisation harm-ed, Clare has drawn from her academic background as well as her own personal experiences to inform her work and publications around issues including self-harm, sexual abuse and the Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis. Creativity is at the heart of Clare’s work - described by the Arvon Foundation as “one of Britain’s most dynamic and powerful young poets”, her first poetry collection, Straight Ahead was published by Bloodaxe in 2006 to critical acclaim; her second will be published in November 2012. She has also been anthologised in collections including ‘Out of Fashion’ (Faber 2004); ‘Answering Back’ (Faber 2007); and “Jubilee Lines” (Picador 2012); and is a dynamic and popular reader of her own work.
Jane Gregory Jane is co-ordinator of Bradford Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Survivors Service and Vice Chair of Rape Crisis (England & Wales). She has worked in the voluntary & community sector for over 30 years. She has been an active volunteer with Bradford Immigration & Asylum Support & Advice Network (BIASAN) for 12 years including running a weekly Women’s Club.
Booking Information
Who should attend
Delegate rate @ £100 includes lunch and two refreshment breaks, plus a full colour printed conference handbook. Keynotes PowerPoints will be shared with delegates following the conference via email.
GP consortia commissioners mental health and general well-being
There are also corporate/agency packages priced at £400 which include two conference places, a promotional space in the main networking area and a full colour advert (copy to be supplied by the package purchaser) in the professionally printed conference handbook. Please note we reserve the right to alter the programme due to unforeseen circumstances. All bookings must be made by Tuesday the 15th January 2013 (following that date bookings may not be accepted). Refunds are available up to 30 days prior to the conference but will incur a administration charge of £20 and will exclude repayment of any credit/debit booking fee incurred. Any cancellation within 30 days of the conference can not be refunded. However delegate places are transferable to colleagues at any time. In the event of the conference being cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, delegates will be able to carry forward their place to the conference re-run, or request a refund (which again will incur an administration fee of £20). However, we would advise that all out-of-pocket expenses should be insured against, for example, travel problems and illness, as the organisers are unable to cover such loss.
Conference bookings can be made by emailing survivorswy@mac.com stating the following: - Delegate numbers - Surnames - Forenames - Title’s - Job Title’s - Organisation - Department - Main contacts email - Telephone - Mobile - Dietary/Access requirements - Purchase order number if appropriate
Health and well-being leads in local authorities Drug and Alcohol workers Regeneration specialists NHS Mental Heath Foundation Trust social inclusion leads Social care providers Third sector mental health day service providers Survivors, their families and friends Faith leaders Educators and learning providers Employers and trades unions Community workers, community development workers, community engagement specialists Community mental health team workers Faith group workers Community well-being practitioners Social enterprise development agencies NHS Trust governors and managers Police, Youth Crime and Probation Officers
- Email address for invoice to be sent to (if different to contact email) and the person responsible for authorizing payment if paying using a purchase order etc.
Social Workers
Your conference place/s cannot be confirmed until receipt of your full payment. Payments can be made by credit/debit card, BACS and purchase order (please request details of these payment methods when emailing your booking request)
Advocacy workers
Once a payment has been secured you will receive an email confirmation of your place/s. Please do not book travel or accommodation until you have received your email confirmation, as your place is not secured until you receive such a confirmation from survivors@mac.com. That email will be your official delegate confirmation receipt. (Please bring it with you to the conference registration to avoid any possibility of entry being denied due to administration issues.) We would also advise booking early to avoid disappointment as we expect the conference to be of interest to many professional workers and groups. If you need to transfer your place to someone else you must email survivorswy@mac.com. Only on receipt of a confirmation email should you consider any delegate transfer as officially authorised.
This conference can be used as evidence for professional CPD please check your professional registration authority’s evidence criteria.
Care coordinators Community Psychologists and Psychiatrists
Service user involvement teams Advice, information and guidance organisations Local authority councillors and portfolio holders Social inclusion workers Independent Sexual Violence Advocates (ISVA’s) GP Primary Care Mental Health leads Sexual Violence & Abuse support groups