Safe & Together™ Model 4-day CORE Training — Darwin by Empowering Growth

Safe & Together™ Model 4-day CORE Training — Darwin by Empowering Growth funded by Department of Children and Families

The 4-day CORE training provides a skills-oriented foundation for domestic violence-informed practice to change professional behaviour.

Training Details:

Day 1 - Tuesday 14 April 2026 - 9.00am - 4.00pm - Participant sign from 8.45am

Day 2 - Wednesday 15 April 2026 - 9.00am - 4.00pm

Day 3 - Tuesday 21 April 2026 - 9.00am - 4.00pm

Day 4 - Wednesday 22 April 2026 - 9.00am - 4.00pm

Important Attendance Notice:
Please note that Day 1 of the training is essential. The content delivered on Days 2–4 is scaffolded from Day 1 and assumes participants have a foundational understanding of key concepts introduced on the first day. These include core principles, frameworks, and language that underpin the Safe and Together model. If you are unable to attend Day 1, we kindly ask that you register for a future training session to makes sure you receive the full learning experience and can actively participate in all components of the training.

Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training: A Transformative Approach to Addressing Domestic Abuse.

Key Focus:
The Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training equips professionals with a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to intervene in domestic violence cases effectively. This training emphasizes a "whole of family" approach, focusing on protecting children while empowering survivors and holding perpetrators accountable.

About Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training
Safe & Together Institute’s CORE Training offers four days of experiential classroom training covering each of these foundational skills.

• Day 1 - Assessment

• Day 2 - Interviewing and Engagement

• Day 3 - Documentation

• Day 4 - Planning

 CORE Training explores the importance of:

• Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning.

• Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators' behaviour patterns.

• Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence.

• Intervening with perpetrators.

• How domestic violence intersects with complicating factors like substance abuse and mental health.

 Participants of the CORE Training will:

• Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns, Multiple Pathways to Harm and Pivoting 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.

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

Also included in CORE Training:

• Participants will develop their own Action Plans to implement the Model into their day-to-day practice, as well as begin 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.

• A prerequisite to becoming a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer and/or Coach includes an 80% or higher on the CORE Training post-test.

 Target Audience

• Child Protection Practitioners

• Domestic Violence Advocates and Counsellors

• Sexual Assault Counsellors

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

• Men's Behaviour Change staff

• Court and Legal Personnel

• Law Enforcement

• Health and Home Visitors

• Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence

 NOTE: This training is funded to support the vital work of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). Due to funding conditions, NGO registrations will receive priority. We will endeavour to accommodate NTG registrations where possible.

Domestic violence-informed child welfare practice requires competencies in assessment, interviewing, documentation and case planning.

Cost: FREE - This training is funded by Department of Children and Families

Trainer Bio: Hayley Tuttle, Director of Empowering Growth

Hayley Tuttle is a certified Safe and Together Trainer based on Larrakia Country (Darwin, NT). She holds a Bachelor of Psychology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, and a Master’s in Criminology from Bond University. Currently, Hayley is undertaking doctoral research focused on risk assessment and intimate partner homicide across the Northern Territory and Queensland. With over 20 years of experience in welfare and child protection in both regions, Hayley is a passionate advocate for integrated service delivery. She promotes the use of shared language and coordinated responses to support positive outcomes for victim-survivors.

Parking Instructions

There is free parking at the venue.

Catering
Morning tea and lunch is provided at this event. Please make sure to advise of any dietary requirements in your registration.

Changes to the catering options is available until 7 days prior to the event. No changes can be made after 7 April 2026.

We look forward to you joining this transformative training opportunity!