Who We Are
Our Mission
Create, nurture, and sustain a global network of domestic abuse–informed professionals and organizations working to improve systems’ responses to domestic violence when children are involved.
Our Goal
Achieve a complete paradigm shift in the way domestic abuse is approached by systems when children are involved.
The Safe & Together Institute is a global leader in domestic abuse–informed training, consulting, and implementation support. Founded by David Mandel, MA, LPC, in 2006, the Institute's mission is to create, nurture, and sustain a global network of professionals and organizations working to improve systems' responses to domestic violence when children are involved.
We are a global social impact organization dedicated to domestic abuse–informed systems change with a suite of products and services, based on the innovative Safe & Together Model, for transforming individual and systems practice, policy, and culture. We do this so that individual practitioners, agencies, and communities can be more informed, capable, confident, and inspired to provide a safer, more efficient, more ethical, and more effective response to families impacted by domestic abuse perpetrator behaviors.
The Safe & Together Institute serves professionals, communities, and systems responding to domestic abuse where children are involved, who are seeking a whole-of-family response that improves outcomes for adult and child survivors and addresses perpetrators as parents. The Institute has trained thousands of professionals across the globe, working with child welfare systems, family courts, domestic abuse advocates, and other stakeholders to develop domestic abuse–informed practices and policies.
The Safe & Together Institute has...
A globally field-tested, evidence-based approach to transforming domestic abuse practice and systems
A regional presence through its local staff and network of trained professionals and agencies
A variety of methods of promoting sustainable change through training, online learning, certification, tools, and other forms of education
A deep commitment to the health and well-being of the practitioner, better outcomes for families, and the importance of place-based work
Changing Systems Together
Safe & Together Institute’s work is grounded in the idea that latent in child welfare and child-serving systems is the potential to be a powerful ally to adults and children harmed by a domestic abuse perpetrator’s behaviors. Systems are most effective when they focus on child well-being while partnering with the adult survivor to increase the safety and well-being of children and the stability, safety, self-determination, and satisfaction of families.
The Safe & Together Model creates a framework for practitioners in diverse services and sectors to partner with survivors to increase the safety, stability, self-determination, and satisfaction of adult and child survivors while supporting practitioners in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their services, interventions, and safety plans.
By providing customized domestic abuse–informed policy, practice guidance, tools, and technology, we empower your agency and workers with meaningful resources to achieve your goals.
