Workshop 4_ Risk Management - Applying Safe and Together Model with Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF): Strengthening the Response Pathway for DFV

Virtual Workshop

Workshop 4 - Risk Management

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 final workshop in the Safe and Together Model and RAMF Integration Workshop Series and provides a deeper exploration of the risk management part of the response pathway. Participants will build on earlier learning from the Overview, Screening and Risk Assessment workshops 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 effective, collaborative and safety-focused risk management practice.

Using Empowering Growth's DFV Response Pathway Integration Tool, participants will explore how Safe and Together practice can strengthen responses following assessment by maintaining a focus on perpetrator accountability, child safety, survivor strengths and coordinated intervention. 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 management pathway. The workshop focuses on translating assessment information into practical actions that reduce risk, increase safety and support sustainable outcomes for adult victim-survivors and their children.

This workshop explores:

• Maintaining perpetrator accountability within risk management responses

• Using perpetrator patterns of violence and abuse to inform intervention and safety planning

• Developing child-centred risk management responses that address each child's individual experience

• Recognising and building on survivor strengths and existing protective strategies

• Applying pattern-based professional judgement to prioritise interventions and actions

• Avoiding incident-focused responses by maintaining visibility of perpetrator behaviour over time

• Strengthening information sharing and multi-agency collaboration

• Using Safe and Together and RAMF resources to inform safety planning and risk management decision-making

• Enhancing coordinated responses that increase safety while reducing burden on victim-survivors

• Applying the Safe and Together practice lenses within the RAMF risk management part of the response pathway

Through case studies, group discussion and practical application activities, participants will strengthen their ability to translate assessment information into meaningful action. The workshop focuses on developing risk management responses that increase safety, support children and protective parents, maintain perpetrator accountability, and strengthen collaboration across services and systems.

As the final workshop in the series, participants will consolidate their understanding of how Safe and Together practice can be applied across the entire RAMF response pathway, from screening and identification through to risk assessment and risk management, to support safer and more effective responses to domestic and family violence.

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 DFV Response Pathway 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