Season 4 Episode 9: The Last Drop Film: A revolutionary new tool for professionals working with young people around Coercive Control
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The problem of dating violence and coercive control among young people has been sorely overlooked, and educational resources are hard to find...until now! In order to make coercive control visible to youth and to fill a gap in professional education materials & intervention strategies for young people, we have partnered with the revolutionary new abuse prevention film, The Last Drop. In this Podcast interview, Ruth and David interview Adam Joel, the Writer and director of the Last Drop Film.
In this interview, we speak about
- How this film came to be, how a diverse group of Lived Experience Experts informed the film & what he hopes the film's impact will be.
- Why the way we tell the story of abuse is vital to preventing & intervening with abuse.
- How messaging & advocacy about domestic violence needs to include a focus on coercive control, not just physical violence
- How youth populations have unique patterns of coercive control, often invisible to adults, like digital coercion related to the social media world that is so important young people
- Safe & Together Institute's role as Executive Producer on the film including producing a Professional Ally Guide as a companion to The Last Drop to assist professionals working with youth populations with strategies & tools when working with youth experiencing or perpetrating coercive control.
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