Champion Awards

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

• Engaging and intervening with perpetrators as parents

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

• Applying the Model 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 Nation 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 organizational 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 abuse–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

• Working to improve the organization’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 Nation 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 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 S&TI (when applicable)

Important: Nominations for the 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.

There will be a winner for each category in the Asia Pacific, European, and North American regions.

1st place in each category will receive:

• An all-expense-paid trip to the S&TI conference in their current region

• An award at the S&TI conference in their current region*

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

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

• The opportunity to write a blog or be on the Partnered with a Survivor podcast to discuss their work

2nd place in each category will receive:

• Free registration to the S&TI conference in their current region

• An award at the S&TI conference in their current region*

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

• The opportunity to write a blog or be on the Partnered with a Survivor podcast to discuss their work

3rd place in each category will receive:

• An award at the S&TI conference in their current region (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 or be on the Partnered with a Survivor podcast to discuss their work

*First and second place winners who are unable to attend their regional conference will be announced as a winner at the conference.