Working With Women With Complex Needs

Working with women experiencing multiple disadvantage: This course will help participants understand the specific, multiple and complex difficulties experienced by vulnerable or multiply disadvantaged women and explore tailored approaches to service design and deliver for this population. This will include thinking about the role of power, and complex and compound trauma; prostitution; working with risk, safeguarding and domestic violence; working with couples, the loss of children taken into the care system and relationships to care and support professionals; before exploring practical skills to enhance engagement, strengths-based approaches, work with substance use, trauma informed systems and female service re-design.

Length: Four modules, duration: 30 - 45 mins of study per module