Safe & Together Model: 4-Day Core Training
Safe & Together’s four-day Core Training is designed to give practitioners a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse–informed practice. This training provides key skills and learnings for participants to implement the Safe & Together Model into their practice.
Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas: Assessment, Interviewing, Documentation, and Case Planning.
Core Training explores the importance of:
Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning
Gathering a fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns
Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence
Intervening with perpetrators
Understanding how domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health
Available for in-person, online, or live remote training.
Pricing
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Participants of the Core Training will:
Learn to use practice tools, such as our Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool, 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 domestic abuse–informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
Discuss current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.
Develop action plans to support implementation of the Model to improve your day-to-day practice and influence your communities and family service systems to become more domestic abuse–informed.
Complete a pre- and post-test as well as a training evaluation.
Participants who attend all four days and take the post-test will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.
Participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the Core Training post-test will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.
FAQs
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The in-person Core Training is four days in total, with 22 hours of learning. Live remote Core Training can be delivered as four full days or split into eight half days. The online Core Training is self-paced.
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Yes, it is essential that you are available to attend all four days of Core Training in order to learn all aspects of the Safe & Together model in practice.
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Core Training is suitable for any practitioner who works with those impacted by domestic abuse. This can include child welfare practitioners, domestic abuse advocates, substance misuse treatment specialists, mental health practitioners, community service providers, perpetrator work specialists, court and legal personnel, police officers, and health practitioners.