Overview
Effective responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG) and domestic violence in migration contexts require a nuanced understanding of how cultural socialisation, religious experience, language barriers, family structures, migration experiences and legal precarity intersect to shape risk and vulnerability, help-seeking attitudes and service access and utilisation.
This course aims to strengthen participants’ ability to deliver survivor-centred, culturally responsive and faith-informed services for migrant, refugee and ethnic minority communities. It seeks to support orgaisations and practitioners to recognise diversity within and across communities, avoid harmful assumptions and respond ethically to complex safeguarding scenarios. Participants explore how migration conditions, faith traditions, honour norms, stigma, family expectations and community dynamics influence disclosure, risk assessment, safety planning and services utilisation. Through applied case studies and real-world scenarios, the course develops practical strategies for engaging sensitively with survivors, families, faith actors and community leaders—while consistently upholding safeguarding, protection and survivor autonomy.
Our unique value: This training bridges VAWG practice with migration awareness and faith literacy, addressing complexities often overlooked in standard cultural competence or safeguarding training.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify cultural, religious and migration-related factors influencing experiences of VAWG and domestic violence.
- Assess how faith and spiritual frameworks can influence coping strategies, resilience, help-seeking and experiences of suicidal ideation and integrate this understanding into survivor-centred safety planning.
- Apply culturally and religiously sensitive approaches to survivor engagement, case management and referral pathways across diverse faith communities.
- Navigate complex ethical tensions between cultural respect, religious literacy and safeguarding obligations.
- Reflect critically on person assumptions and knowledge gaps regarding religious or cultural communities they may be less familiar with.
- Identify and mitigate organisational practices that marginalise, stigmatise or exclude survivors from diverse religious or cultural backgrounds.
Who It’s For
- VAWG and domestic violence service providers
- Caseworkers, advocates and frontline practitioners
- Social workers and safeguarding leads
- Migration, asylum and refugee support organisations
- Local authority teams and commissioners
- Charities and non-profit organisations working in cross-cultural, migration, faith-informed or minoritised community contexts.
- Policy actors and researchers working with migrant or displaced populations
Format
Delivered as 3-hour online module or half day in-person workshop
Example format: 2 x 1.5-hour sessions online
Case-based learning using migration-focused scenarios; Interactive discussion, applied exercises and practical tools.
Certificate of completion issued by IDVRM
Price: £200 (1.5 hours) | £400 (half day)
T&Cs:
All courses are costed at £200 per 90 minutes, which includes preparation time, trainer fee and internal administrative costs (but please note that this is subject to change based on market competitiveness, internal costs and trainer availability). We recommend that courses should have a duration of at least 3 hours to achieve in-depth analysis, interactivity and learning outcomes.
Courses are delivered online by the IDVRM team and affiliated specialists. The specific trainer/group of trainers can be agreed with the client at the time of curating our services.
All courses are online and limited to 15 participants. It is possible to expand participation and course duration, but this will be reflected in the price to capture additional time of preparation, number of trainers and training duration.
Courses can be delivered in person, but in that case, clients must provide a venue and reasonable travel and accommodation arrangements for the trainer(s). If delivering the course requires international travel, the cost must be covered by the client and sufficient time must be allowed for travel arrangements to be made.
Low-income and charity clients: In line with our decolonial mission, we offer special discounts for charities and organisations working at the grassroots level who are under-funded and work in low-income environments. Please contact us to discuss the possibilities.
