Alternativ til Vold ("Alternative to Violence")

Information

Programme Alternativ til Vold ("Alternative to Violence")
Organisation Alternativ til Vold ATV ("Alternative to Violence")
Country Norway
City Oslo, Lillestrøm, Drammen, Ski, Asker, Tønsberg, Porsgrunn, Kristiansand, Arendal, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, Bodø, Tromsø, Alta
Contact name Marius Råkil
Contact mail post(at)atv-stiftelsen.no
Phone +4722401110
Website www.atv-stiftelsen.no
Short name NO_ALAL
Organisation type NGO/foundation/charity
Programme location Urban area
Programme started in the year 1987
  • Cooperation with women's organisation
  • Evaluation process in place
  • Training offers for practitioners
  • Work standards available
  • Work manuals available
  • Partner Contact
  • Partner Support
  • Follow up process in place
  • Parenting courses

Working with ...

  • Heterosexual male intimate partner violence
  • Same-sex intimate partner violence
  • Minors using violence
  • Migrant perpetrators
  • Refugee perpetrators
  • Women using violence
  • Family relationships

Support for ...

  • Female victims of domestic violence
  • Male victims of domestic violence
  • Children

Counselling

  • Individual counselling
  • Group work

Type of training offered

  • Group work skills
  • Individual work skills
  • Heterosexual male domestic violence
  • Women using violence
  • Same-sex domestic violence
  • Minors using violence
  • Female victims/survivors
  • Male victims/survivors
  • Migrant/refugee populations
  • Other : secondary traumatisation, compassion fatigue and burnout of professionals

Referral

  • Referred by healthcare professional (e.g. psychologist, doctor)
  • Convicted by criminal court, sentenced to prison and attending programme from there
  • Referred by social services/child protection
  • Self-referred/voluntarily attending

Approach

  • Other : Own model (ATV): The treatment offered is a violence‐focused integrative form of psychotherapy offering different therapeutic approaches and tools to encounter the needs of the individual client. All treatment providers have a thorough training on violenc

Funding sources

  • EU/national/regional/municipal government funds
  • Contribution by clients