Victims today still struggle to access their rights; they are often treated badly by the police, prosecutors and other professionals; and they face significant disparities in the provision of rights and services. These problems are often caused by the inconsiderate behaviour of professionals and their poor understanding of victims’ issues.
Our aim is to bring about change to the way actors interact with victims, by transforming their knowledge on victims’ rights and policy, and their understanding of how to assist victims of crime; to share knowledge, skills, and best practices and to provide excellence in the delivery of victim support services.
The VSE Training Academy designs and delivers multi-format training for law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, health professionals, businesses, academia, and all professionals working with – and on the subject of – victims of crime through use of a comprehensive E-learning platform, hosting core
modules drawn from VSE’s pre-existing wealth of content, and from experts in the field of victims’ issues.
At the heart of our approach is the development of unique experiential and immersive training using state of the art techniques, including animation, 3D and VR videos as well case studies, role playing and other methods to provoke changes in behaviours and beliefs.
Your investment will help us:
• build core training modules and create engaging new content which focuses on the empathetic treatment of victims and communication skills, trauma informed care, resilience, psychological first aid, and wellbeing solutions to prevent the vicarious trauma of practitioners;
• build online training solutions for victim support organisations seeking to train their own staff;
• develop large scale training projects co-funded by the EU;
• build training services for companies wishing to offer victim-sensitive solutions, train employees to identify signs of victimisation and colleagues who become victims of crime.
