PACT Trainers
Kate Iwi
Kate has worked in the field of Domestic Violence for sixteen 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, and has recently written a manual for working with young people and domestic violence. Kate has been training others in this work since 1998 and now provides freelance training and consultancy.
Dr Chris Newman
Chris Newman has had 13 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 facilitated the 'Caring Dads' fathering programme. 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 trained as an adult education tutor and is currently working towards a Masters degree in systemic and family therapy. He has recently been involved in setting up a multi-site evaluation of community based domestic violence intervention programmes, and also acts as an assessor for the national accreditation system for this kind of programme.
Kate and Chris have recently developed a training in Risk Assessment for the Family Courts for CAFCASS, which is now being delivered nationwide. They have also recently co-written a programme for working with domestic violence offenders on an individual basis for the National Offender Management Service.
Others
PACT occasionally uses other equally experienced trainers to provide the specialist knowledge and experience called for by particular training courses.
