WAVE Trust

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WAVE Trust (Worldwide Alternatives to ViolencE) was formed in 1996 and registered as an international educational charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales^[1] under Number 1080189 in 1999. The charity is dedicated to reducing the key root causes of interpersonal violence: child neglect and maltreatment. The method used is a business strategy approach to identify and then tackle these problems at root cause level.

WAVE's fundamental message is that most family violence and maltreatment can be prevented by known, economically viable programs to break damaging family cycles. The research identifies and actively promotes UK adoption of global best practice methods and programs to address violence, e.g. the Nurse-Family Partnership.^[2] Research also identifies two early conditions as antidotes to the development of violent personalities: attunement between carers and babies, and the development of empathy in the child.^[3]