"How do you know someone is triggered when they don't have the words to tell you?"
Sophie Olson - Survivor of child sexual abuse
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SIDE BY SIDE CSA
Maternity
Survivor and Practitioner delivered professional training in Child Sexual Abuse
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Side By Side CSA (Maternity) is a survivor-designed programme delivered with Survivor, Sophie Olson, and Midwife, Dr Jude Field. This training is suitable any maternity professional looking to enhance their knowledge, either on an individual or service-wide basis. Our training courses can be adapted to different settings and group sizes. In all our training, the powerful tool of storytelling is used to illustrate the child’s experience leading into the survivor’s journey, and the social harms faced in a maternity system that frequently overlooks or misunderstands the needs of child sexual abuse survivors.
Evidence tells us that when maternity care isn't provided in a trauma informed, or safe way, this can have detrimental or harmful impacts on the victim/survivor themselves and how they start life as a parent. We also know that where care is provided in a way that meets the needs of the indivdual, positive outcomes are more likely.
Sophie and Jude explore barriers to trauma-responsive materniny care and consider how maternity professionals can support the needs of the adult survivor with non-pathologising compassion, empathy and courage.
Our training comes from the understanding that maternity professionals may feel unprepared or lacking in confidence about how to create a supportive and safe environment during their care provision for victim/survivors of child sexual abuse. It is our belief that all midwives and other maternity professionals should have lived-experience led training on how to effectively provide support, whether or not the victim/survivor has chosen to disclose. This training will help you to ensure that trauma responsive care is given within the reality of the current UK maternity service. This can be in relation to the clinical care you provide as an individual as well in the wider team/unit, and meeting the wider needs of the survivor, such as knowing how to signpost for further support.
Wellbeing support and clear signposting for delegates is provided throughout sessions, with the recognition the subject might be challenging for those supporting victims and survivors, or managing their own trauma. Our approach is human-centred, kind and trauma responsive.
Side By Side CSA is committed to evidence-based practices. We are proud to amplify the often overlooked voices of survivors from diverse backgrounds, while directing to the latest resources from CSA Centre of Expertise, NSPCC, and The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Self-Exploration:
Professional discomfort can significantly impede effective support for victims and survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). We gently invite you to recognise, reflect on and address individual comfort levels - crucial for creating a compassionate, supportive environment.
Skills Development:
You will develop comprehensive skills relevant to maternity care provision, to understand and support survivors of sexual abuse, focusing on identifying and overcoming barriers to trauma-responsive practice.
Delivery:
Online and in-person training is available. Please contact us for individual requirements so we can provide a tailored quote. Our training courses can be adapted to different settings and group sizes.
The most powerful experience of the whole Royal College of Midwives Conference (perhaps apart from the joint introduction) was this lecture by Sophie Olson
RCM Conference 2024
This session helped me understand how CSA might impact during pregnancy and birth, and the need to promote an environment conducive to the women feeling heard and safe
University Of Surrey
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I have never had training that was so powerful, so informative and so reflective. I went home and couldn't stop thinking about it. It was absolutely brilliant.
University of winchester
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