FDV-informed Documentation and Language

One-day course delivered online

When working with survivors (adult and child) or users of violence, it is essential to use language that reflects a survivor, strength-based approach, a perpetrator-facing, and a perpetrator-driven risk approach. This ensures behaviour patterns are prominent and visible, survivor resistance and strengths are at the forefront of responses and, service responses are better able to assess risk and imminency to risk. Accordingly, in domestic and family violence work, our language should focus on perpetrator accountability and a behaviour pattern-based approach.

This one-day workshop will provide further skills and knowledge of best practice when capturing documentation in family domestic and sexual abuse matters.

Outcomes of Learning

A greater understanding of FDV and sexual violence informed documentation
Ability to highlight FDV and sexual violence destructive language
Skills to ensure documentation remains perpetrator-facing highlighting perpetrator-driven risk
Mapping coercive control: Ability to document and capture a perpetrator pattern-based approach
Enhance documentation skills in line with best practice

Day Overview

Structured Professional Judgment: What does this mean.
Comparative analysis: FDV and sexual violence destructive versus informed documentation
Understanding Bias and complications through documentation
Principles of FDV and sexual violence-informed documentation
Mapping coercive control through perpetrator-facing and perpetrator-driven risk approaches
Identifying the importance of survivor strengths in documentation
Adopting self-care strategies when exposed to FDV

Trainer/Facilitator

DART Institute CEO, Jolene Ellat

Training Resources

Workbooks and resources will be sent 48 hours prior to the training date with links via Humanitix.

Questions about the training

Please email info@dartinstitute.org.au