Practice Toolkits

The Safe & Together Institute’s toolkits are designed to help you enhance your domestic abuse–informed practice, create a supportive community, and work toward systems change.

Subscription Tools

Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool

This web-based practice tool is designed for improving assessment, intervention, and outcomes through a perpetrator pattern–based approach. The tool allows practitioners to apply the Safe & Together Model’s critical concepts and principles to their current caseload in real time.

Uncovering Coercive Control Toolkit

Drawing on over 20 years of research and expertise in the field of domestic abuse response work, the Uncovering Coercive Control Toolkit empowers professionals to better expose the nuanced aspects of coercive control that may show up in survivors’ lives and begin planning for a safer, healthier future.

Complimentary Tools

Choose to Change Toolkit for Men

The Choose to Change Toolkit describes a four-step process to help men develop strong, safe support networks to help them interrupt their abuse and increase safety for other family members. It includes a professionals booklet, information for partners, and information for network contacts.

Safe & Together Intersections Meeting Guide

The Safe & Together Intersections Meeting (STIM) Guide outlines a framework for addressing cases where domestic violence intersects with mental health and/or substance abuse issues. This guide provides protocols to help practitioners better assess these complex intersections while keeping the child’s safety at the center.

Ally Guide

Family and friends are often the first people to notice something is wrong and the first people victims turn to for help. Unfortunately, despite good intentions, these conversations sometimes go awry. The Ally Guide is a resource to assist family and friends in being an ally to survivors of domestic abuse.