CRARMF Comprehensive Training for Family Violence Specialists

Special Virtual General Admission $495.00 - normally priced at $595.00

Special Virtual Student Admission $295.00 - normally priced at $395.00

CRARMF Comprehensive Training for Family Violence Specialists is a two-day tertiary course that provides the advanced knowledge and skills for staff to undertake in-depth, comprehensive risk assessment where clients are at risk due to family and domestic violence.

Participants will also learn how to work collaboratively to develop comprehensive safety plans and manage risk. Participants will also learn relevant skills in order to contribute to a Multi-Agency Case Management Meeting (MACM).

This course utilises the West Australian Common Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework (CRARMF) and has been developed in line with National Competency CHCDFV012 Make Safety Plans with People Experiencing Domestic and Family Violence.

Outcomes of Learning

A deeper understanding of risk and risk indicators when working with Family and Domestic Violence
Utilising the CRARMF to assess and screen for risk where Family and Domestic Violence is present.
Determining the impacts to the whole of family functioning due to Family and Domestic Violence.
Utilising four stages of structured professional judgement
Ability to work collaboratively with organisations to assess and manage risk

Day One Overview

Review: Redefining Family and Domestic Violence and coercive control
Screening for risk: 7 step screening process to identify risk, immediate and imminent risk
Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice
Identifying the primary aggressor when trauma responses are present
Four stages to structured professional judgement
Acts of resistance and social entrapment

Day Two Overview

Impacts of whole of family functioning
Perpetrator risk factors (typologies and stages to homicide)
FDV-Informed language and documentation
Comprehensive risk assessment and safety planning
MACM trial run
Adopting self-care strategies when exposed to FDV

Trainer: Jolene Ellat, Founder & Director of DART Group Australia

Target Audience

Women and Children's Specialist Services
Men's Behaviour Change Program Providers or Men's Specialist Services
Social Workers
Psychologists/Counsellors
Education
AOD Counsellors
Community Service Case Managers
Disability and Aged Care
Child Protection
Domestic Violence Advocacy/Women's Sector
Family/Child Services
Family Court Staff
Family Lawyers and Solicitors working in FDV
Family and Domestic Violence Response Teams (Police)
Health Workers (Doctors/Midwives etc.)
Housing
Judges/Magistrates
Mental Health Workers
Women's Refuge workers
Youth Workers
Anyone working with perpetrators of Family and Domestic Violence
Anyone impacted by Family and Domestic Violence

For all training questions, please email Sharon at info@dartgroupaustralia.com.au