On 13th May 2021 we hosted a webinar on Developing the evidence base on what works for children exposed to violence hosted by VAMHN Grantholder Dr Emma Howarth (University of East London). You can watch the recording of the full webinar below.
Stephanie Waddell
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Steph Waddell leads the Early Intervention Foundation's work on impact and knowledge mobilisation. Since joining the Foundation in 2014, she has worked with local authorities, police forces, schools, central government departments and others to support evidence use in relation to support for children and families. Prior to joining EIF, Steph was a civil servant, focusing on youth crime and justice policy.
One of the major challenges to improving services for children who experience domestic abuse is that we know so little about what works. EIF has looked at the available evaluation evidence to try to identify promising approaches and considered the literature and expert views on the barriers to evaluation in this field. We have also looked at the context for service delivery, working in partnership with four local authority areas to understand the nature of current systems and practice. My talk will set the stage for the webinar by outlining the findings from this work.
One of the major challenges to improving services for children who experience domestic abuse is that we know so little about what works. EIF has looked at the available evaluation evidence to try to identify promising approaches and considered the literature and expert views on the barriers to evaluation in this field. We have also looked at the context for service delivery, working in partnership with four local authority areas to understand the nature of current systems and practice. My talk will set the stage for the webinar by outlining the findings from this work.
| Steph Waddell.pptx |
Hera Hussain
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Hera is the Founder of CHAYN - a global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence. Chayn has reached more than 400 000 people through its resources which are designed with survivors of abuse. Born in Scotland, raised in Pakistan and living in the UK, Hera knew from early on she wanted to empower women. Hera is a passionate believer in using the power of open source technology and open data to solve the world's pressing issues. Hera was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list.
1. MIT Innovators Under 35 https://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/hera-hussain-chayn-innovator/
2. TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJGAgQzmG3E
3. How to create digital services if you don’t get funding https://www.thecatalyst.org.uk/resource-articles/how-to-create-digital-services-if-you-dont-get-funding
4. Support for Survivors - an interview with Hera Hussain - https://superrr.net/2020/08/25/Support-for-Survivors-An-interview-with-Hera-Hussain.html
5. Soul Medicine https://soulmedicine.io/
6. Your Story Matters https://ysmysm.co/
2. TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJGAgQzmG3E
3. How to create digital services if you don’t get funding https://www.thecatalyst.org.uk/resource-articles/how-to-create-digital-services-if-you-dont-get-funding
4. Support for Survivors - an interview with Hera Hussain - https://superrr.net/2020/08/25/Support-for-Survivors-An-interview-with-Hera-Hussain.html
5. Soul Medicine https://soulmedicine.io/
6. Your Story Matters https://ysmysm.co/
| Hera Hussain VAMHN Webinar.pptx |
Claire Powell
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Claire is a researcher at UCL’s Institute of Child Health where she is working on developing core outcome sets for child maltreatment and domestic violence and abuse interventions. She has previously worked on research studies related to perintal mental health, mothers in prison and parenting interventions. Before moving to research, Claire ran a youth mental health project and facilitated a range of support groups for women
This talk will provide an overview of the two main problems with the evidence for domestic violence interventions: 1) how research is wasted; 2) how researchers do not measure what service users and service providers are interested in. I will then present a research project that aims to address these problems through a consensus process in which survivors of domestic violence, practitioners, researchers and policymakers agree on what should be measured in all intervention studies (and ideally in practice settings too).
This talk will provide an overview of the two main problems with the evidence for domestic violence interventions: 1) how research is wasted; 2) how researchers do not measure what service users and service providers are interested in. I will then present a research project that aims to address these problems through a consensus process in which survivors of domestic violence, practitioners, researchers and policymakers agree on what should be measured in all intervention studies (and ideally in practice settings too).
- Rivas, C., Ramsay, J., Sadowski, L., Davidson, L. L., Dunne, D., Eldridge, S., Hegarty, K., Taft, A., & Feder, G. (2015). Advocacy interventions to reduce or eliminate violence and promote the physical and psychosocial well‐being of women who experience intimate partner abuse. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005043.pub3
- Howarth, E., Moore, T. H. M., Shaw, A. R. G., Welton, N. J., Feder, G. S., Hester, M., MacMillan, H. L., & Stanley, N. (2015). The Effectiveness of Targeted Interventions for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Measuring Success in Ways that Matter to Children, Parents and Professionals. Child Abuse Review, 24(4), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2408
- O’Doherty, L. J., MacMillan, H., Feder, G., Taft, A., Taket, A., & Hegarty, K. (2014). Selecting outcomes for intimate partner violence intervention trials: Overview and recommendations. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19(6), 663–672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2014.09.010
- Cordis Bright. (2016). Big Lottery Fund Domestic Abuse Research. https://www.cordisbright.co.uk/admin/resources/erevaldomesticabusereport.pdf
- https://www.comet-initiative.org/
- Glasziou, P., & Chalmers, I. (2018). Research waste is still a scandal—An essay by Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers. BMJ, 363, k4645. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4645
Panel Discussion
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