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