Season 4 Episode 9: The Last Drop Film: A Revolutionary New Tool for Professionals Working with Young People Around Coercive Control
About This Episode
The problem of dating violence and coercive control among young people has been sorely overlooked, and educational resources are hard to find. In order to make coercive control visible to youth and to fill a gap in professional education materials and intervention strategies for young people, we have partnered with the revolutionary new abuse prevention film The Last Drop. In this episode, Ruth and David chat with Adam Joel, the writer and director of the film.
In this interview, David, Ruth, and Adam speak about:
How this film came to be, how a diverse group of Lived Experience Experts informed the film, and what he hopes the film’s impact will be
Why the way we tell the story of abuse is vital to preventing and intervening with abuse
How messaging and 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 an Ally Guide as a companion to The Last Drop to provide professionals with strategies and tools when working with youth experiencing or perpetrating coercive control
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