Safe & Together Model CORE Training

An online four-day course delivered over two weeks

CORE is a four-day training designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse-informed practice. Each day will provide key skills and learnings for participants to implement the Safe & Together Model into their practice.

Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas:

Day 1 - Tuesday, 10 June

Assessment

Day 2 - Wednesday, 11 June

Interviewing

Day 3 - Tuesday, 17 June

Documentation

Day 4 - Wednesday, 18 June

Case Planning

CORE Training explores the importance of:

Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning.
Gathering a fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns.
Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence.
Intervening with perpetrators.
Understanding 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 modeling, role play and videos.
Improve domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
Discuss current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.

Also included in CORE Training:

Action Plans will be developed by participants to support 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

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

For all training questions, or for large group bookings, please email Sharon at info@dartinsititute.org.au