JEDDAH: The Family Protection Society, an organization dedicated to helping and dealing with cases of domestic violence, is hosting the first of its kind training workshop on the subject of domestic violence at Jeddah’s Maternity and Children’s Hospital on Wednesday.
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the National Program for Domestic Safety and it targets people who deal with cases of domestic violence and work in different sectors (doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, sociologists, educators, lawyers and police officers).
The workshop will tackle the scientific approaches to finding and diagnosing different forms of violence; managing social shelter homes; and the art of dealing with domestic violence hotlines.
The issue of a health care worker’s role in identifying and documenting evidence of domestic abuse for the purposes of criminal investigations and law enforcement will also be addressed. The workshop starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m.
A representative of the National Network to End Domestic Violence in the US will be the keynote speaker.
