Transforming systems. Protecting families.
The Safe & Together Institute is a global leader in domestic abuse–informed systems change. For nearly two decades, we have trained hundreds of thousands of professionals across child protection, family services, courts, and allied systems, supporting safer responses for more than one million families worldwide.
We provide evidence-informed training, practical tools, and implementation support grounded in the Safe & Together Model™—a child-centered, survivor-strengths, perpetrator-accountable framework for working with families where domestic abuse is present.
Our work gives professionals a shared, behavioral approach to assessment, documentation, and case planning—helping systems collaborate more effectively, make defensible decisions, and keep children safe and together with their protective parent.
The Safe & Together Model™ is an international, perpetrator pattern–based framework for transforming how systems and practitioners respond to domestic abuse and child maltreatment. It applies a child-centered, strengths-based, and systems-informed approach that shifts the focus from blaming protective caregivers to holding perpetrators accountable as parents.
The Safe & Together Model
What We Offer
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Online & In-Person Training
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Online Courses
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Practice Tools
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Organizational Consultations
The Benefits of Becoming Domestic Abuse–Informed
Systems that become more domestic abuse–informed move toward:
Keeping more children in their own homes with their protective parent and out of foster care
Improving their partnerships with survivors and their advocates
Improving interventions with perpetrators
Reducing their ability to be used by perpetrators to control the adult and child survivors
Moving closer to equity goals
Improving staff morale, retention, safety, and performance
Reducing costs associated with out-of-home placements
Providing better supervision and support for their staff
Meeting agency key performance measures
Our Partner Agencies
We have partnered with more than 100 agencies to create a domestic abuse–informed network to enact change.
