AAFDA and AVA publish resources for professionals and children/young people around domestic homicide reviews
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Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA)‘s specialist team of advocates offer emotional support and practical advice after a death. They are experts at navigating the systems and processes after a death and can intervene to ensure that your family gets the right support. Every family bereaved by domestic abuse will have a unique set of challenges facing them as they begin to understand their loss and the situation that lead up to it. AAFDA can provide specialist and expert advocates to help children and young people be involved in a Domestic Homicide Review.
The project’s story
AVA and AAFDA received funding from MOPAC in 2020 after AAFDA realised that children’s voices were missing from most of the DHRs they quality assured, from their work with families they realised that a sensitive DHR can be a real resource for children’s healing and that children have a lot of insight into they dynamics of the abusive relationship, the responses of professionals and where agencies have learning to do. What was missing was resources that could build confidence of chairs/authors/panel members to ask about children and hold children’s views in mind and to help carers who are responsible for children’s welfare after a homicide to feel that being involved won’t cause further harm to traumatised children.
The next stage of the project is creation of an e-leaning package that wrap around the resources.
This project is generously funded by MOPAC.
Resource for Children/Young People: Domestic Homicide Reviews
Created in partnership by Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) and AVA, this booklet is aimed at children/young people and introduces the idea of domestic homicide reviews and sets out how and why children/young people might want to get involved. We have also described trauma and how it works and how it might make you behave and feel. AAFDA have created a separate “coping with trauma resource” that might be useful for children/young people. Alongside this at the end of the booklet are sources of further help and support.
Resource for Children/Young People – Coping with Trauma: Domestic Homicide Reviews
Created in partnership by Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) and AVA, this booklet is aimed at children and young people, as well as professionals for their knowledge building. It defines trauma and how it might look or feel for someone who has experience of fatal domestic abuse.
Created in partnership by Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) and AVA, this resource is for carers of children/young people and focuses on the particular needs of children and young people who have been impacted by fatal domestic abuse and how being involved in a DHR can offer healing and understanding for them.
Resource for Professionals: Domestic Homicide Review Guidance
Created in partnership by Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) and AVA, this resource is for professionals working with children and young people who could be involved in a Domestic Homicide Review.
