Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes1. Training at Dilaasa
Training at Dilaasa is aimed mainly to improve the response of hospital staff to women facing domestic violence.The training programmes such as gender sensitization training of the entire staff, are conducted mainly for training of health professional i.e; doctors, nurses, social workers at the hospital in screening women patients reporting for treatment in various department of the hospital.
The training activities are now been expanded to five hospitals across the city of Mumbai.
1. Bhabha Hospital (Bandra)
2. Bhabha Hospital (Kurla)
3. M. T. Agarwal Hospital (Mulund)
4. Cooper Hospital (Juhu)
5. Rajawadi Hospital (Ghatkopar)
The trainings are conducted by trained hospital staff with support from CEHAT Staff.
The aim of the trainings are :-
1. To develop an understanding of domestic violence as a healthcare issue and role of healthcare providers in responding to patients.
2. To build skills in screening women for domestic violence and also provides an understanding about cycle of violence and specific needs of women living in violence homes
2. Training of health professionals on responding to violence against women
Apart from the trainings at Dilaasa training are also conducted to helathcare professionals
The Thane Civil hosptial is a district level hospital which receives numerous cases of all forms of violence agaisnt women such as rape, burns, assaults etc. CEHAT is involved in porviding training on VAW along with Sakhya an organsiation involved in providing counselling services to women facing domestic violence at the Thane Civil Hospital.
A two day training workshop on Domestic Violence was conducted for a group fo 45 doctors of maternity homes and tertiary care hospitals in Bangalore.
CEHAT was invited by The North East Network, (NEN), Meghalaya for a state level workshop. CEHAT conducted 2 days training in 2 regions of the state, Garo Hills and Shillong civil hospital. The training was aimed at understanding the issue of violence against women as a health issue, learning skills to screen women for violence as well as provide basic support to them. This was also followed with a presentation on the newly enacted PWDVA protection of women from Domestic violence act, 2005 and their role in responding to these women. The training was imparted to a group comprising of 50 Doctors, nurses and social workers.
3. Training with Community based Volunteers on Domestic Violence
There was a need from women who have accessed Dilaasa services that trainings and support initatives should also be available at the community level. A community based organisation (CBO), Navjeet Community Centre was identified in Bandra Slum and a series of training were conducted in order to create a deeper understanding on the issue of domestic violence. The community volunteers were also trained in counselling skills in order to reach out to individual women. The coordinator of the community centre has decided to initiate a counselling centre wherein women can seek services.
CEHAT was invited by SNEHA, an organisation working in Dharavi at Sion Hospital for a capacity building training workshop for papa professional's workers on understanding the issue of VAW as a health issue and para counselling skills in relation to Domestic violence.
A two-day training workshop was conducted fro the counsellors of Jagruti Mahila Kendra, a community based organisation.