Description:
The four-day Core training is designed to give practitioners a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse-informed practice. Participants will receive experiential classroom learning, using practice tools, discussing cases, practicing interviews and developing action plans to implement the Safe & Together Model into their practice.
Topics of Training
- Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning
- Gathering a fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns
- Partnering with survivors of domestic violence
- Intervening with perpetrators
- Understanding how domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health
- Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm 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 modeling, role play and videos.
- Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
- Discuss their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.