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The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research and the New Brunswick Association of Social Workers are launching a new training program for social workers.

The program is called Understanding the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence: Helping Social Workers to Better Intervene. The goal of the program is to help social workers deal with situations of intimate-partner violence. Once social workers have received the training, they will train their colleagues.

The program covers a range of topics and emphasizes the need to understand theories and complexities of intimate-partner violence in order to intervene.

Four social workers have already been trained through the program. They will begin training other social workers in New Brunswick in early 2010.