Congratulations to our colleagues Professor Padraig MacNeela, Gemma MacNally MIACP and all the staff in Active* Consent who were involved in compiling the ‘First Point of Contact’ Disclosure Management Skills Training evaluation report.
A new Active* Consent and Galway Rape Crisis Centre report shows disclosure management skills training enhances confidence in supporting survivors. An evaluation of the ‘First Point of Contact’ Disclosure Management Skills Training has been published today, demonstrating how universities and other education providers can enable staff and students to receive informal disclosures of sexual violence or harassment (SVH). The training is a collaboration between the Active* Consent programme at University of Galway and Galway Rape Crisis Centre. First Point of Contact is a 12-hour psychotherapist-led training programme that prepares participants to receive disclosures of sexual violence and harassment and to signpost to relevant supports and services. It teaches people how to create a safe, informed, and supportive space for disclosures to be made. The 2021 Higher Education Authority (HEA) national survey of staff in the sector showed that only about one fifth agreed that they were well informed about how to respond effectively to a disclosure. Read more about the ‘First Point of Contact’ Disclosure Management Skills Training evaluation report here: https://lnkd.in/e9-W9Rcj Photo: L-R: Michelle Caulfield, Lead Trainer & Facilitator, Galway Rape Crisis Centre, Professor Pádraig MacNeela, Co-Lead of the Active* Consent programme and Gemma MacNally, Clinical and Therapeutic Lead of the Active* Consent programme, University of Galway. Credit: Aengus McMahon