PACT Trainers
Kate Iwi
Kate has worked in the field of Domestic Violence for twenty years. She worked for many years at the Domestic Violence Intervention Project in London, assessing and working with men wishing to address their violence to partners. As well as working with perpetrators both individually and in groups, she has facilitated fathering groups, linked women's support groups and undertaken therapeutic work with children. She has been developing, undertaking and supervising family courts risk assessments since 1999 and for 5 years managed the Stephen's Place Childrens Centre and Al-aman - a specialist DV project for Arabic speaking communities.
In 2000 Kate wrote a manual for Domestic Violence Interventions which is used by a number of projects around the UK and Europe. Since 2008 she has been running RESPECT’s young people’s services addressing violence and abuse used by teenagers in their close relationships, and has written a manual for working with young people and domestic violence. In 2011 she became Child Protection adviser at CAFOD an international humanitarian and development agency. She is responsible for child protection both in CAFOD’s UK and overseas operations as well as for developing the child protection capacity of 400 partner organisations in the global south. She has been training others since 1998 and now provides independent training and consultancy alongside her colleague, Dr Chris Newman.
Dr Chris Newman
Chris Newman has 18 years of experience doing individual work and group work with men around their violence and abuse to partners. He worked for many years as a group facilitator on domestic violence perpetrator programmes and has also delivered specialist parenting programmes for fathers who have abused their children. He has extensive experience of training other professionals in working with perpetrators of domestic violence. He also carries out risk assessment reports and acts as an expert witness in private law child contact cases and public law child protection cases.
Chris has a research background in developmental and forensic psychology, including research investigating emotional and cognitive deficits in psychopathic murderers and sex offenders, as well as the effect of drugs on emotional perception. He is a qualified adult education tutor and has trained in systemic and family therapy and narrative therapy. He is now part of the supervision team for three multi-systemic therapy teams working with offending behaviour, drug misuse and problem sexual behaviour in adolescents.
Kate and Chris are the authors of 'Picking up the Pieces - a Practical Resource for Supporting Parenting Skills'. They have developed a training in Good Practice in Risk Assessment for CAFCASS, which is now being delivered nationwide. A further book in the series, Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: A Handbook for Early Intervention, was published in 2015 in the UK, and in 2017 in Italy. They have recently developed a domestic violence intervention programme for offenders referred by the civil courts in Lebanon. They are currently engaged as a consultants in two multi agency interventions aimed at ‘high-harm’ domestic violence offenders (MATAC and DRIVE).
Others
PACT occasionally uses other equally experienced trainers to provide the specialist knowledge and experience called for by particular training courses.
Kate has worked in the field of Domestic Violence for twenty years. She worked for many years at the Domestic Violence Intervention Project in London, assessing and working with men wishing to address their violence to partners. As well as working with perpetrators both individually and in groups, she has facilitated fathering groups, linked women's support groups and undertaken therapeutic work with children. She has been developing, undertaking and supervising family courts risk assessments since 1999 and for 5 years managed the Stephen's Place Childrens Centre and Al-aman - a specialist DV project for Arabic speaking communities.
In 2000 Kate wrote a manual for Domestic Violence Interventions which is used by a number of projects around the UK and Europe. Since 2008 she has been running RESPECT’s young people’s services addressing violence and abuse used by teenagers in their close relationships, and has written a manual for working with young people and domestic violence. In 2011 she became Child Protection adviser at CAFOD an international humanitarian and development agency. She is responsible for child protection both in CAFOD’s UK and overseas operations as well as for developing the child protection capacity of 400 partner organisations in the global south. She has been training others since 1998 and now provides independent training and consultancy alongside her colleague, Dr Chris Newman.
Dr Chris Newman
Chris Newman has 18 years of experience doing individual work and group work with men around their violence and abuse to partners. He worked for many years as a group facilitator on domestic violence perpetrator programmes and has also delivered specialist parenting programmes for fathers who have abused their children. He has extensive experience of training other professionals in working with perpetrators of domestic violence. He also carries out risk assessment reports and acts as an expert witness in private law child contact cases and public law child protection cases.
Chris has a research background in developmental and forensic psychology, including research investigating emotional and cognitive deficits in psychopathic murderers and sex offenders, as well as the effect of drugs on emotional perception. He is a qualified adult education tutor and has trained in systemic and family therapy and narrative therapy. He is now part of the supervision team for three multi-systemic therapy teams working with offending behaviour, drug misuse and problem sexual behaviour in adolescents.
Kate and Chris are the authors of 'Picking up the Pieces - a Practical Resource for Supporting Parenting Skills'. They have developed a training in Good Practice in Risk Assessment for CAFCASS, which is now being delivered nationwide. A further book in the series, Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: A Handbook for Early Intervention, was published in 2015 in the UK, and in 2017 in Italy. They have recently developed a domestic violence intervention programme for offenders referred by the civil courts in Lebanon. They are currently engaged as a consultants in two multi agency interventions aimed at ‘high-harm’ domestic violence offenders (MATAC and DRIVE).
Others
PACT occasionally uses other equally experienced trainers to provide the specialist knowledge and experience called for by particular training courses.