Name: Domestic Violence and Suicide Prevention Training
Start: 2026-03-04T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-04T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Oxfordshire County Hall

Domestic Violence and Suicide Prevention Training

This specialist, trauma-informed training combines knowledge and expertise from across the domestic violence and mental health sectors.
About this Event

The training

This training aims to deepen practitioners’ understanding of the prevalence and links between domestic violence and suicidality, increase awareness of how to identify the signs, and apply best practice in how to respond. More lives are lost in the UK to domestic violence-impacted suicide than to intimate partner homicide, and this training seeks to enable practitioners to build effective responses to a growing concern.

Learning outcomes

Specifically, the training will equip delegates to:

· Identify the signs and impacts of domestic violence

· Identify signs and risk factors for suicidality

· Identify the prevalence of suicide impacted by domestic violence

· Understand the links between domestic violence and suicide

· Identify key aspects of Oxfordshire’s suicide prevention strategy

· Explore myths, stigma and language around suicide

· Adopt a compassionate approach and appropriate language for talking about suicide

· Understand basic suicide prevention approaches

· Apply specialist safety netting and safety planning practices which are focused on preventing suicide for people impacted by domestic violence

Who should attend?

This training is designed for frontline practitioners and supervisors or first line managers in a range of settings:

Background & experience

Becci has more than 23 years’ experience working in frontline and management roles in domestic violence, mental health, supported housing and criminal justice. For this training, she has drawn on:

· Three years’ current experience as a frontline DA practitioner (advocacy and groupwork)

· Three years’ previous experience managing specialist domestic abuse services in Oxfordshire

· Learning from chairing four Domestic Homicide Reviews for suicide deaths

· The findings and recommendations of Tim Woodhouse’s Churchill Fellowship, as published in, ‘The Person Most Likely to K*ll a Victim of Domestic Abuse… is Themselves’