Session 2: First Line Support and LIVES

Objectives

• Know the content of first-line support (LIVES)
• Demonstrate skills in offering the first three elements of first-line support – Listen, Inquire, Validate

Presentation

Facilitator guide

Activities

Participants handouts

Key messages

• Actively listen to the survivor verbally and non-verbally, without distractions.
• Inquire about the survivor’s needs and concerns, focus on what the survivor wants
• Validate the survivor, show that they are not at fault or to be blamed, that you are there to listen and support them

Required supplies & materials

• Projector
• Laptop
• Pen and blank paper workbook for each participant
• Tape, 15 pieces of paper, Markers
• Sufficient space for groups of three to spread out
• Print outs of activities – depending on which activities you choose

Further resources for facilitators (Optional)

• WHO (2014) Health care for women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence: A Clinical handbook, First-line support for sexual assault and intimate partner violence pg 13-37
  https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/136101
  
  
• WHO, UNFPA, UNHCR (2019) Clinical management of rape and intimate partner violence survivors: developing protocols for use in humanitarian settings. Geneva: WHO, Part 2: Providing first-line support pg 10-14 https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/rape-survivors-humanitarian-settings/en/  
  
  
• NCA (2020) Integrating Therapeutic interventions into Gender-based Violence Case Management 
  https://www.kirkensnodhjelp.no/en/how-we-work/gender-based-violence/gender-based-violence/