2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference: Champion Awards

• Deadline for Nominations: 14 October 2026

• Winners Notified: 1 December 2026

• Conference: 16–18 March 2027

Excellence in Case Practice Award

This award is designed for professionals who have been trained in the Safe & Together Model and have gone the extra step in applying the Model’s principles and tools to their day-to-day practice. This can include, but is not limited to, those who have shown consistent excellence in and commitment to:

• Applying the Model’s principles and components to domestic violence cases

• Partnering with domestic violence survivors, including documenting the perpetrator’s pattern of coercive control and making the survivor’s protective efforts visible

• Engaging and intervening with perpetrators as parents

• Identifying and addressing intersecting domestic violence, mental health, and substance abuse issues

• Applying the Model’s concepts to communities who experience systemic racism, bias, intergenerational trauma, or other forms of systemic oppression such as the African American community, immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal/indigenous/First Nations communities, and the LGBTQIA+ community

Excellence in Systems Change Award

This award is designed for professionals who have been trained in the Safe & Together Model and have gone the extra step in applying the Model concepts and tools to organisational and systems change. This can include, but is not limited to, those who have shown consistent excellence in and commitment to:

• Working above and beyond their formal role to promote domestic violence–informed systems change

• Acting as change agents inside their agency for wider shifts in practice and/or policy

• Making efforts to implement the Model across sectors or agencies

• Building partnering into policies, forms, risk tools, supervision, or information-sharing, so it doesn’t depend on any one practitioner to hold it

• Working to improve the organisation’s or system’s approach to and application of the Model to working with families who experience systemic racism, bias, intergenerational trauma, or other forms of systemic oppression such as the African American community, immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal/indigenous/First Nations communities, and the LGBTQIA+ community

Award candidates must be nominated by one person, and a second person must validate the nomination. Nominations will be reviewed by the Safe & Together Institute team, and awards will be granted based on the following criteria:

• Fidelity to the Safe & Together Model

• Creativity in application of the Model

• Specificity of the description of their efforts in the nomination

• Presentation of supporting evidence or documentation of the effects of their efforts and the connection back to Safe & Together (when applicable)

Important: Nominations for the Excellence in Case Practice category must respect the anonymity of clients. The description of any case details cannot include any identifying information. This includes names, locations, or any other case details that would make the case identifiable.

1st place in each category will receive:

• An all-expense-paid trip to the 2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference

• An award at the 2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference*

• The opportunity to present their efforts and work during a workshop

• One full year of access to the Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool or the Uncovering Coercive Control Toolkit

• The opportunity to write a blog for the Safe & Together Institute or be on the Partnered with a Survivor podcast to discuss their work

2nd place in each category will receive:

• Free registration to the 2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference

• An award at the 2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference*

• One full year of access to the Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool or the Uncovering Coercive Control Toolkit

• The opportunity to write a blog for the Safe & Together Institute or be on the Partnered with a Survivor podcast to discuss their work

3rd place in each category will receive:

• An award at the 2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference (if they attend)

• One full year of access to the Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool or the Uncovering Coercive Control Toolkit

• The opportunity to write a blog for the Safe & Together Institute or be on the Partnered with a Survivor podcast to discuss their work

*1st and 2nd place winners who are unable to attend the 2027 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference will be announced as a winner at the conference.