Lucy’s Project, a charity that aims to improve the safety of people and animals experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV), has confirmed the dates for its 2025 Education Program.

The charity’s education sessions are relevant to practitioners and policy makers across the DFV, community, homelessness, animal welfare, veterinary and law enforcement sectors, local councils and state and federal governments.

The sessions are broken into four sections:

Session 1 – Understanding Domestic and Family Violence Perpetrated against People and Animals: This session provides a foundational level of knowledge in the recognition that human and animal safety is intertwined and that animals are victim-survivors in their own right.  

Session 2 – Providing Animal Inclusive Intake, Risk Assessment and Safety Planning: This highly practical session provides advice regarding animal inclusive intake, risk assessment and safety planning, and discusses the considerations for assisting human and animal victim-survivors to leave a person using violence.

Session 3 – Implementing Animal Inclusive Practice and Supporting Recovery and Healing: Thethird session expands on the benefits of animal inclusivity to address how to tangibly make changes to be welcoming to people with animals, and animals. The importance of keeping families together through the healing journey are highlighted.

Session 4 – Legal considerations for human and animal victim-survivors: Learn about legal considerations that are relevant for human and animal victim-survivors. While it is important for tailored legal advice to be made available for victim-survivors, it is valuable for workers and service providers to have an understanding of the relevant legal considerations and issues that can arise.

The sessions are available free of charge to anyone involved with people and animals experiencing domestic and family violence. Sessions are held online and are scheduled throughout April and May, running for approximately one hour each.

For more information, and times of the sessions, click here.   

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