Explore how tech-facilitated abuse affects Black women & strengthen professional responses through a survivor-centred, intersectional lens.
Technology can be used to extend, intensify and enable abuse from digital surveillance and harassment to coercive control that crosses online and offline spaces.
Join The Nuru Project (hosted by Africa Advocacy Foundation) for a specialist professional training centred specifically on Black women’s experiences of technology-facilitated abuse (TFA).
This session examines how technology can facilitate abuse within wider patterns of power, coercion and control, and how Black women’s experiences may be shaped by racism, sexism and intersecting inequalities. We will consider how TFA can intersect with harmful practices and wider safeguarding concerns, while exploring the barriers Black women may face when disclosing abuse or accessing appropriate support.
Through interactive learning, facilitated discussion and a layered case study, participants will strengthen their understanding of TFA, develop professional curiosity and consider safe, appropriate and survivor-centred responses.
Who should attend?
This training is intended for professionals and practitioners working with, supporting or referring Black women experiencing abuse, including those working across:
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG) and domestic abuse services
- Safeguarding, social care and health services
- Police, fire and rescue services, and other statutory services
- Refugee and asylum accommodation and support services
- Grassroots, community-led and voluntary sector organisations
- Specialist support services and referral pathways
What you will take away
- A clearer understanding of technology-facilitated abuse and its different forms.
- Greater awareness of how TFA may affect Black women within specific social, cultural and structural contexts.
- Improved recognition of indicators of abuse, coercion and control.
- Practical considerations for survivor-centred responses, safeguarding and referrals.
- An introduction to the TRACE framework for professional understandings for cases of tech abuse.
