Season 1 Episode 10: Lived Experience with Ryan Hart and Berry Street’s Y-Change Team
About This Episode
This special episode features the lived experience experts highlighted at the Safe & Together Institute’s third annual Asia Pacific Conference in partnership with Berry Street.
To start, David and Ruth discuss experiences and recommendations for systems change with the Y-Change experts from Berry Street. Their insights bring depth and context and keep systems accountable to the reality that child victims of abuse need to be heard by systems in order for true nurturance and safety to be met.
Then, the Safe & Together Institute’s survivor keynote speaker, Ryan Hart, speaks about his experiences of coercive control and how it impacted him and his family. He creates insight and clarity around the harm that non-physical forms of violence bring to families and individuals and gives us perspective on how society is failing to recognize the dangers of coercive control. Ryan and his brother, Luke, are tireless advocates for systems to recognize coercive control as a serious and dangerous crime.
We hope you enjoy this lived experience podcast. Safe & Together honors the experiences and reflections of victims and survivors and believes that true systems change can only happen when we honor their voices and their experiences are reflected back to help systems do better.
Additional Resources
Safe & Together Institute’s domestic abuse–informed trainings
Safe & Together Institute’s upcoming events
David Mandel’s book Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers: How to Transform the Way We Keep Children Safe from Domestic Violence