THE DAY PROGRAMME

Our Relationship Development Lead, Tina Pearmine, reflects on how boys and young men may use exhaustion as a tactic to control their girlfriend. I have noticed that more and more young people who are subjected to abuse by a boyfriend (or girlfriend) are discussing the tactics and impact of exhaustion subjected to them. The DAY Programme utilises the work of sociologist Albert Biderman, to help young people understand what abusive behaviour looks like. Biderman’s work was

Helping Maisy by asking the right questions DAY Programme Relationship Lead Tina Pearmine reflects on her work with a young person. In DAY Programme training, practitioners are briefly equipped to utilise the Power Threat Meaning Framework when supporting young people. We encourage practitioners to utilise THIS resource pack from Irish organisation Jigsaw. I was recently working with a 17-year-old girl, let's call her Maisy, and I was using the DAY programme as a basis for m

We are delighted that Hannah Cotmore will be delivering our DAY Programme training! Here she introduces herself, the work she has done and what has led her to join the DAY Programme team. Hannah Cotmore With a career spanning mental health services, primary care, and education, my work has always been rooted in supporting children, young people, and families to thrive. But it was my transition into the domestic abuse sector that truly reshaped my perspective and my purpose. I

We had a brilliant DAY Training event last week! Look at all our participants’ smiling faces. Each one is excited to have brilliant resource to do meaningful work with children and young people! 100% of participants said the training had “exceeded” their expectations! Hurrah! Here’s some of their feedback: It's easily the best training I've done. It is so well organised with lots of flexibility to put it into practice! I think the resources are incredible, I think they

Alongside my work as Relationship Development Lead for the DAY Programme, I work with young people who need safeguarding. I recently used the DAY programme with a 17-year-old boy in one-on-one sessions. He had been introduced to the manosphere via a school assembly. This assembly was intended to highlight harmful content but instead exposed him to a previously unknown digital space, where his curiosity led him to misogynistic websites, blogs and influencers. By creating a sa

In THIS powerful article written by a 15-year-old girl for the Guardian, she describes the relentless and truly awful misogyny young girls are subjected to on social media. Unfortunately, this article was not shocking to our Relationship Development Lead, Tina Pearmine. She says, "Daily I support young women who encounter their social media platforms being flooded with content that objectifies women, with violence against women and girls trivialised, shared, liked and laughe