The dates have been announced of a conference that will discuss how small changes can make a big difference to women and girl survivors of domestic violence.
Called Small Changes, Saving Lives, the RISE Violence Against Women and Girls conference at the University of Sussex in November will mark the 20th anniversary of its organisers, the Brighton domestic abuse charity RISE.
Keynote speakers include professor Gene Feder, chair of the NICE Domestic Violence Programme Development Group, and Michelle Pooley, coordinator for Daphne RCPV (Responding to child to parent violence).
Among the guests will be Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas, Lewes MP Norman Baker and Dr Purna Sen, a member of RISE's board and the deputy director of the Institute of Public Affairs. Also attending will be Professor Liz Kelly, director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, Shadow Home Affairs minister Helen Jones MP, and Dr Aisha Gill, Reader in Criminology at the University of Roehampton.
Aimed at a range of professionals including social workers, police and probation officers and people working in education and health, and with women, children and the LGBTQI community, there will be workshops in areas such as child-to-parent violence, survivors and the media, perpetrator programmes and health relationship education in schools.
The conference takes place on Thursday and Friday November 13 and 14 at the Conference Centre in Bramber House, University of Sussex. For details, phone 01273 622828 or email conference@rise.org.uk · RISE will be holding its annual signature Undercliff 8K Series for women in October to raise money for local people affected by domestic abuse. The run takes place along the seashore alongside the chalk cliffs from Saltdean towards Brighton and back.
There will also be an 8K family walk starting out an hour earlier than the run and also along a scenic route.
Both events are on Sunday October 14 and entrants are offered free training sessions from Jo’s Thing.
For details, visit riseuk.org.uk
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