Safe and Together- Core Training (4 days) Inner Gippsland 18, 19, 25, 26 Nov 2025

4-day Training — 18, 19 and 25, 26 November 2025

• Day 1 — Tuesday 18 November — 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

• Day 2 — Wednesday 19 November — 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

• Day 3 — Tuesday 25 November — 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

• Day 4 — Wednesday 26 November — 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

Pretest

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email that contains a link to a PRETEST. This pretest is meant to begin the learning process and your score will NOT affect your participation or certificate in any way. The multiple-choice questionnaire will only take up to 10 minutes. We ask that you complete it to the best of your ability BEFORE arriving to your first training day. The questions may seem specific, but please read each question carefully and select the answers that seem best or in a way that best matches your own practice.

Morning and afternoon tea supplied. Lunch will be provided by participants.

Questions

Jo Byers

Sol Synergy

Email:info@solsynergy.com.au

About Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training

Safe & Together Institute’s CORE Training is designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic violence-informed practice. Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas:

• Day 1 Assessment

• Day 2 Interviewing

• Day 3 Documentation

• Day 4 Case Planning

Keeping children safe by partnering with survivors and holding those who choose violence accountable.

Our Safe & Together™ Model training supports professionals to improve outcomes for children and families impacted by domestic and family violence. This internationally recognised, evidence-based framework equips practitioners with the skills to partner more effectively with non-offending parents (usually mothers), keep children safe in their care, and work within systems to reduce harm.

Whether you're new to the model or looking to deepen your understanding, our training is grounded in practical application, reflective practice, and cross-sector collaboration.

Training will be delivered face-to-face and tailored to participants, organisations, and the region.

CORE Training explores the importance of:

• Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators' behaviour patterns

• Partnering with adult survivors of family violence to recognise their protective efforts

• Intervening with perpetrators

• Identifying and documenting patterns of perpetrator behaviour and its impact on child and family functioning

• Collaborating across systems to build safe, child-centred, and accountable responses

• Shifting systems and language to avoid mother-blaming and reinforce shared responsibility

• How domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health

Participants of the CORE Training will:

• Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm that can be implemented right away to improve assessment of risk, impact on children, survivor protective efforts and essential case decisions.

• Practice interviewing perpetrators, survivors and children through modelling, role play and videos.

• Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.

• Discuss their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.

Also included in CORE Training:

• Plans will be developed by participants to support the implementation of the Model to improve their day-to-day practice and to influence their communities and family service systems to become more domestic violence-informed.

• Participants will complete a pre- and post-test to reflect learning, as well as a training evaluation.

• Participants who attend all four days and take the post-test will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.

• Participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the CORE Training post-test will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.

Target Audience

• Child Protection Practitioners

• Domestic Violence Advocates

• Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health and other community service providers

• Perpetrator Intervention Programs (eg. Men’s Behaviour Change Programs)

• Court and Legal Personnel

• Law Enforcement

• Health and Home Visitors

• Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence