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Transforming systems. Protecting families.

The Safe & Together Institute empowers professionals across all child welfare sectors to transform their approach to domestic abuse cases through a child-centered, survivor-strengths framework called the Safe & Together Model™. Our evidence-based domestic violence training provides a common language and practical tools that help you make more informed decisions, collaborate more effectively across agencies, save valuable time, and ultimately keep children safe and together with their protective parents and out of institutions.

Join our global community of domestic abuse–informed practitioners who are breaking down silos and changing the narrative around domestic violence intervention when children are involved.

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

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What We Offer

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

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Our Partner Agencies

We have partnered with more than 100 agencies to create a domestic abuse–informed network to enact change.

Interested in working together but not sure where to start?

The Safe & Together Institute team is here to answer any questions you may have.