Workshop 3_ Risk Assessment - Applying Safe and Together Model with Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF): Strengthening the Response Pathway for DFV

Virtual Workshop

Workshop 3 - Risk Assessment

Applying Safe and Together Model with the Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF): Strengthening the Response Pathway for DFV Screening, Risk Assessment and Risk Management in the Northern Territory

This interactive virtual workshop is the third workshop in the Safe and Together Model and RAMF integration workshop series and provides a deeper exploration of the risk assessment part of the response pathway. Participants will build on earlier learning to strengthen their understanding of how the Safe and Together Model and the Northern Territory Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF) work together to support comprehensive, structured and informed risk assessment practice.

Using Empowering Growth's DFV Response Pathway Integration Tool, participants will explore how Safe and Together practice can strengthen the quality of information gathered and analysed within RAMF risk assessment processes. Throughout the workshop, participants will use the DFV Response Pathway Integration Tool as a practice guide to apply Safe and Together concepts within the RAMF risk assessment process. The workshop focuses on moving beyond the identification of domestic and family violence to understanding the significance of harm, risk and danger, while maintaining a clear focus on perpetrator behaviour, child impacts and survivor protective efforts.

This workshop explores:

• Understanding the relationship between harm, risk and danger

• Analysing perpetrator patterns of violence and abuse, including escalation and intent

• Assessing impacts on children and young people

• Recognising and documenting survivor strengths and protective efforts

• Applying pattern-based professional judgement within the RAMF risk assessment pathway

• Exploring intersections and intersectionalities that may influence assessment

• Using Safe and Together and RAMF resources to inform assessment, documentation and decision-making

Through case studies, group discussion and practical application activities, participants will strengthen their ability to gather, organise and assess information in ways that support more accurate risk analysis, informed professional judgement and improved safety outcomes for adult and child victim-survivors.

This workshop provides a foundation for the subsequent Risk Management Workshop, where participants will focus on translating assessment information into effective safety planning, risk management and coordinated responses.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop series, participants will be able to:

• Understand how the Safe and Together Model and the NT Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF) work together to strengthen domestic and family violence responses.

• Identify opportunities to strengthen DFV screening and early identification across the response pathway.

• Recognise how a trauma-informed, perpetrator-pattern-based approach can support the identification of coercive control, child impacts and survivor protective efforts.

• Describe how Safe and Together Model concepts can strengthen RAMF risk assessment processes, including consideration of harm, risk and danger.

• Identify key principles that support effective risk management, safety planning, perpetrator accountability and interagency collaboration.

• Apply the DFV Response Pathway Integration Tool across screening, risk assessment and risk management.

• Reflect on individual and organisational opportunities to strengthen integrated practice and improve outcomes for children, victim-survivors and families.

• Develop practical actions to embed learning within their own role, team and organisation.

Important Pre-requisites:

This workshop is intended for practitioners who have completed:

• Safe and Together Model CORE Training

• Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF) Training

• Workshop 1 - Overview - Applying Safe & Together Model with the RAMF

Participants are expected to have a foundational understanding of both frameworks prior to attending. This workshop does not reteach Safe and Together Model CORE or

RAMF training. Instead, it focuses on how the two frameworks can be integrated to strengthen practice.

Cost: $250 per workshop (incl GST)

Trainer Bio: Hayley Tuttle, Director, Empowering Growth

Hayley Tuttle is a certified Safe and Together Model trainer and certified RAMF trainer based on Larrakia Country (Darwin, NT). She holds a Bachelor of Psychology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology and a Master of Criminology from Bond University. Hayley is currently undertaking doctoral research examining risk assessment and intimate partner homicide across the Northern Territory and Queensland.

With more than 20 years of experience working across child protection, family support and welfare sectors, Hayley has extensive experience supporting practitioners and organisations to strengthen responses to domestic and family violence. Her work is grounded in a commitment to child-centred, survivor-partnering and perpetrator pattern-based practice, with a strong focus on improving outcomes through collaboration and shared professional language.

Recognising the value of both the Safe and Together Model and the NT Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF), Hayley has developed an Integration Tool to assist practitioners in connecting the two frameworks across screening, risk assessment and risk management. This workshop introduces the tool and supports practitioners to apply an integrated approach to domestic and family violence practice within the Northern Territory context.

Workshop Series - Applying Safe and Together Model with RAMF: Strengthening the Response Pathway for DFV Screening, Risk Assessment and Risk Management

• Workshop 1 - Overview and Introduction to Integration Tool

• Workshop 2 - Strengthening the DFV Response Pathway: Screening

• Workshop 3 - Strengthening the DFV Response Pathway: Risk Assessment

• Workshop 4 - Strengthening the DFV Response Pathway: Risk Management

Registration Requirements

Participants must complete the Overview Workshop before attending any of the standalone pathway workshops.

The overview workshop introduces the concepts, language and DFV Response Pathway Integration Tool that are applied throughout the remainder of the series.

Following completion of the overview workshop, participants may attend any or all of the response pathway workshops most relevant to their work, depending on their role,

professional development needs and area of practice.

Group Registrations

If you would like to register multiple staff members from your organisation, please contact Empowering Growth on admin@empowering-growth.com.au before registering.

Group registrations can be coordinated to simplify the registration process. Group discount rates are available for organisations registering multiple participants.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is suitable for practitioners who have completed both Safe and Together Model CORE and RAMF training and work within:

• Domestic and Family Violence Services

• Child Protection

• Health Services

• Mental Health Services

• Alcohol and Other Drug Services

• Community Services

• Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs)

• Education and Early Childhood Services

• Housing and Homelessness Services

• Justice and Corrections

• Family Support Services

• Multi-agency and Interdisciplinary DFV Response Teams