I completely agree.
We are doing work on the impact of traumatic brain injuries sustained as a result of intimate partner violence and how those brain injuries impact and impede the witnesses' ability to testify. When they are testifying, because of their brain injury, their attitudes and their demeanour are misunderstood as being belligerent, whereas in fact it is the result of the brain injury that they sustained.
We're also doing work around the neurobiology of trauma, which is explaining how trauma also impacts the witness of the crime.
The idea of developing a very robust, comprehensive analysis that helps everybody in the process better understand the experiences of the victims of violence in order to better provide services and better provide justice for them is essential.
The biggest challenge is having those types of training as check boxes and having one hour to undo a lifetime of discrimination that has been ingrained in you. It's not going to work.
For us, it's about how we instill a culture shift by providing comprehensive, ongoing training around these issues.