VIRTUAL One-Day Workshop: FDV-informed Documentation and Language

General Admission Virtual Cost: $249.00

Virtual Student Cost: $149.00

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 workshop has been developed to align with the internally accredited Safe and Together ™ model.

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: Jolene Ellat, Founder & Director of DART Group Australia

Target Audience

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
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
Youth Workers

For all training questions, email Sharon at info@dartgroupaustralia.com.au