Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training —Lismore, NSW

Training Details:

4 Day Training — 14, 15, 16, & 17 July 2025 at 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Region: Lismore, NSW

Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training: A Transformative Approach to Addressing Domestic Abuse.

Key Focus:

The Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training equips professionals with a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to intervene in domestic violence cases effectively. This training emphasizes a "whole of family" approach, focusing on protecting children while empowering survivors and holding perpetrators accountable.

About Safe & Together™ Model CORE TrainingSafe & Together Institute’s CORE Training offers four days of experiential training covering each of the following foundational skills.

Day 1 - Assessment
Day 2 - Interviewing
Day 3 - Documentation
Day 4 - Case Planning

CORE Training explores the importance of:Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning.

Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators' behaviour patterns.

Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence.Intervening with perpetrators.

How domestic violence intersects with complicating factors like substance abuse and mental health.

Participants of the CORE Training will:

Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns, Multiple Pathways to Harm and Pivoting 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 modelling, role play and videos.Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.

Be discussing their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.

Also included in CORE Training:

Participants will develop their own Action Plans to implement the Model into their day-to-day practice, as well as begin to influence their communities and family service systems to become more domestic-violence informed.

Participants will complete a pre- and posttest to reflect learning, as well as a training evaluation.

Participants who attend all four days and take the posttest will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.

A prerequisite to becoming a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer and/or Coach includes an 80% or higher on the CORE Training posttest.

Target Audience:

Child Protection Practitioners
Domestic Violence Advocates and Counsellors
Sexual Assault Counsellors
Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health and other community service providers
Men's Behaviour Change staff
Court and Legal Personnel
Law Enforcement
Health and Home Visitors
Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence

Domestic violence-informed child welfare practice requires competencies in assessment, interviewing, documentation and case planning.

Host Bio:

Empowering Growth Pty Ltd is a Darwin-based company dedicated to providing specialized training and consultancy services focused on domestic abuse practices.Our offerings include:

Training in the Safe and Together Model: This evidence-based approach helps professionals work effectively with families impacted by domestic abuse, focusing on the safety and well-being of adult and child survivors and perpetrator accountability.

Consultancy Services: We provide services to individuals and organisations with risk assessment, safety planning, policy development and worker safety.

Located in the Northern Territory, we proudly extend our services across Australia and internationally, equipping individuals and organizations with the tools they need to make a difference.

Trainer Bio:

Hayley Tuttle, Director of Empowering Growth.Hayley is a certified Safe and Together Trainer who is currently working on Larrakia country, (Darwin, NT). Hayley has a Bachelor Psychology with Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology and a Masters in Criminology through Bond University.Hayley has undertaken research, analysing policy relating to domestic violence-related death review processes globally. Hayley is currently completing PhD research proposal examining risk assessment tools and and intimate partner homicide in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Hayley has worked in the welfare and child protection for over 20 years in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Hayley advocates for integrated service delivery where a shared language and co-ordinated response, supports positive outcomes for victim survivors.

Questions:

Please contact Hayley Tuttle

Email: admin@empowering-growth.com.au

Website: www.empowering-growth.com.au

Facebook: @Empowering-Growth

Safe & Together™ Model 4-day CORE Training —Lismore by Empowering Growth