Training Packages
I am a highly trained professional with a robust background in victim advocacy and safeguarding. My expertise is grounded in a suite of certifications including Supporting Victims Affected by Crime, Understanding the Impact of Crime, and specialised training in Supporting Victims of Sexual Crime and Domestic Abuse. I am proficient in Trauma-Enhanced approaches and dedicated to Supporting Vulnerable Children and Young People. My practice is underpinned by a deep Understanding of the Criminal Justice System and Victims’ and Witnesses’ Rights, all while maintaining a strict commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, Introduction to Safeguarding, and Health and Safety protocols.
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Empowering practitioners, policing partners, and public health professionals with evidence-based insights and specialised expertise. Available for online or in person training.
Traditional Health Needs Assessments (HNAs) often rely on deficit-based biomedical models that pathologise underserved communities and risk exacerbating institutional trauma. This practice session introduces a transformative framework for designing place-based HNAs centered on Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and salutogenesis.
Participants will explore methodologies for achieving knowledge equity, ensuring that experiential "lived experience" is weighted equally with data to combat epistemic injustice. A critical focus will be placed on the welfare-enforcement boundary, teaching practitioners how to establish "sanctuary spaces" and data firewalls that decouple public health from punitive policing.
Through the lens of the Ewen Framework (2025), attendees will learn to transition from top-down consultation to democratic co-research models. By mapping individual, social, and physical assets, participants will gain practical advice to design assessments that foster collective agency, mitigate structural vulnerability, and prioritise authentic "health creation".
Contextual safeguarding refers to the risks children and young people face outside the home. But what are these risks for children and young people who grow up in a family where there is domestic abuse between their parents and carers?
This training offers a case-study Intensive for Improved practice. By using real-world examples, we dissect the nexus between domestic abuse and exploitation. This deep dive is designed to sharpen investigative intuition, improve community safety protocols, and foster inter-agency excellence.
Supporting Children & Young People in the Justice System navigate the intricacies of the criminal justice system through a trauma aware and healing lens. This session equips practitioners with specialised techniques to support the psychological well-being of children and young people, reducing re-traumatisation during legal processes.
Deepening Practitioner Insight & Response Go beyond the surface to understand the lived experiences of children in domestic abuse environments. This training focuses on the long-term impact on development and provides actionable frameworks for effective practitioner support
Janine Ewen is a leading authority at the intersection of public health, law enforcement, and vulnerability, dedicated to transforming how society protects its most at-risk populations. While her influence spans the globe, Janine’s work is deeply informed by her experiences in northeast Scotland, where she has pioneered "needs-based" approaches to justice and community safety. A specialist in harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and the policing of vulnerability, she bridges the gap between traditional security and compassionate social service. Janine provides students and professionals with actionable strategies to navigate the evolving landscapes of criminology and sociology. Her mission is clear: to foster a world where health and justice are inextricably linked, ensuring that security is built on a foundation of protection, practical reasoning, and the support of underserved communities.
This masterclass provides a longitudinal analysis of the transition from system-impacted survivor to system-shaping specialist. For over 20 years, Global Consultant Janine Ewen has translated a biography of early adversity—beginning in a women’s refuge at age nine—into a career tackling complex exploitation and criminalisation.
Having trained hundreds of officers and consulted for GLEPHA, UNODC, and Police Scotland, Janine shares the "behind-the-scenes" reality of integrating policing, vulnerability, and harm reduction. The session explores three pillars:
Harm Reduction
Trauma-Informed Care
Vulnerability:
From Northeast Scotland to Brazil’s urban favelas, Janine offers practical guidance for practitioners and students to utilise lived experience as a transformative tool for health equity and systemic reform.
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Janine’s work and writing centres survivors. She is not afraid to voice the tensions and challenges within policy/practice around young people’s experiences of violence and harm. Her writing on creative approaches and methodologies is inspiring. I find Janine’s astute reflections so valuable; grounded in her own authentic work and life experience, and unafraid of speaking truth to power.
Dr Jade Levell
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