Engage is a behaviour change programme for individuals in Somerset who use harmful and abusive behaviours within their relationships. The programme offers therapeutic and practical support for individuals aged 19+ to create lasting change. We believe it takes one step in the right direction to start making positive changes to your life.
Engage workers
Engage workers assess individuals’ capacity and motivation for change. They provide direct support, working closely with Community IDVAs, Children and Young People workers, and partner agencies.
If you have been referred to Engage, it’s important that you understand we provide the following:
- 1:1 support to reduce risk and increase safety
- Support for complex needs which may contribute to the abusive behaviour, including substance use and mental ill health
- Tools to assess motivation for change and to address harmful behaviour
- Techniques and strategies to stop abuse escalating and change harmful behaviours
- Strengths and resilience focus group work programme
Programme includes:
- Communication and negotiation skills
- Using de-escalation strategies safely
- Dealing with other people’s anger
- The impact of domestic violence on children
- Healthy sexual relationships
- Negative self talk
- Maintaining change
Because I was in denial about everything, I was blaming everything on her. I shouldn’t have done what I did. I didn’t realise how bad it was.
Engage and reflect
Engage offers you the opportunity to reflect on your relationship and the impact of your behaviour on yourself and others. We offer a realistic opportunity to achieve sustainable change by:
- Encouraging accountability for your actions
- Help and support to stop being violent and abusive
- Analysing patterns of abuse and violence
- Identifying potential triggers and complex needs
- Learning how to relate to your partners in a respectful and equal way
- Supporting individuals to develop non-abusive ways of dealing with difficulties in their relationship
- Strategies to help you deal with difficult emotions
- Identifying and analysing core belief
Safe relationships
Acknowledging your behaviour has been abusive is a very difficult thing to do. This is the first step in your journey to create healthy non-abusive relationships. The Engage Programme provides a whole family response to support. The primary aim is to increase the safety and wellbeing of adults and any children where abuse is present within the relationship. Engage support helps to reduce the risk of situations escalating and provides families with strategies to build more respectful relationships, which is paramount to remaining safe and avoiding harmful behaviours
We understand that it’s a big step to begin taking responsibility for harmful behaviours and making a change in your life. It’s important to know that you’re not doing it alone.
Call us for any questions you may have, or to discuss how we may be able to work together.
Somerset: 0800 694 9999
The engage programme has been absolutely incredible, it literally saved my relationship, it has taught me how to deal with situations in my relationship that I would have usually used aggression! It has helped me become a much more understanding and considerate person! I now use the I feel technique with my partner which has worked amazing and also time out which has helped me and my partner! Ellie has been an incredible support to me she has helped me on my journey every step of the way, I honestly don’t think I would be where I am now if it wasn’t for her, she knew how to calm me down and how to deal with things I’ve usually just swept under the carpet or blanked out, I’d like to thank Ellie for all the hours she put into helping me become a better person for my relationship and now me and my partner couldn’t be happier.
