Stopping Family Violence are pleased to share the below event with you, now open for registration.

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Safe & Together™ Model Overview Training

This one-day training provides an introduction and overview of the Safe & Together™ Model. The training provides participants with information about creating a domestic abuse-informed child welfare system, the principles and components of the Safe & Together™ Model and information on the framework behind competency-building in child welfare around domestic violence.

Who is this training suitable for?

This training is ideal for both frontline practitioners, where the client base is specifically people experiencing or using FDSV, and intersecting practitioners, those working in fields where it is very common that the client’s presenting concern will intersect with experiences or use of FDSV, including:

Alcohol and other drug services
Child protection
Corrections (both community corrections and prison-based roles)
Court-based personnel
Disability support
Family law system practitioners
Family services
Financial counsellors, including those focusing on gambling harm
Generalist counselling/community-based support services
Housing and homelessness
Legal practitioners
Mental health
Migrant health/support and settlement services
Police
Primary health care
Social workers
Trauma counsellors

Objective

To introduce a perpetrator pattern framework.
To introduce and understand the Safe & Together principles and components and how these guide practice in various roles
To introduce how to use the Safe & Together Model as a way to enhance good practice in various roles
To share information about the range of activities and offerings from the Safe & Together Institute

Prerequisites

None required

Includes

All training material, Lunch, Morning and Afternoon tea

Register your attendance today (places are limited and may sell out prior to the closing date).

Ticket Cost includes, Morning/Afternoon Tea and Lunch

Trainer Bio

KATE JEFFRIES

Manager Practice Development and Quality Assurance at Stopping Family Violence

Kate is a passionate leader for family safety and an advocate for effective system responses to increase the visibility of perpetrators as the cause of harm. With 20 years’ experience in the West Australian context, she has held various leadership roles across family and domestic violence, mental health and disability. Her focus areas at Stopping Family Violence support training, workforce development, program design and quality assurance for perpetrator intervention.

As a practitioner, Kate is experienced in engaging with men using family and domestic violence through behaviour change intervention, i.e. individual and work group delivered within community and prison settings, working holistically with women and children impacted by family and domestic violence, providing clinical services for young people and risk assessment for the Family Court of Western Australia. Kate provides FDV informed supervision to support practitioner growth Australia wide.

Kate is the current chair for WA Men’s Behaviour Change Network, she was a previous chair for WA Family Law Pathways Network, and consortium chair for headspace Mandurah (WA). Kate is a registered psychologist, board-approved supervisor and an accredited Safe and Together trainer for both core and supervisor programs.