Safe & Together Model: 4-Day Core Training

Safe & Together Institute’s Core Training is designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse–informed practice. This self-paced training brings the four days of Core Training classroom learning to an online format.
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Day 1 | Assessment
  • Orient participants to the Safe & Together Core Practice Training design

  
  • Introduce the Safe & Together Model’s cross-cutting themes associated with a perpetrator pattern–based approach and domestic abuse–informed systems
  
  • Introduce and practice assessment techniques associated with domestic abuse–informed practice
Day 2 | Interviewing
  • Review previous training topics and reinforce the importance of interviewing

   
  • Introduce the topic and broad themes of domestic abuse–informed interviewing

  
  • Introduce domestic abuse–informed interviewing for perpetrators, survivors, and children
Day 3 | Documentation
  • Review previous training topics and reinforce the importance of documentation

  • Introduce domestic abuse–informed documentation

  
  • Practice using the Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool

  
  • Practice how the domestic abuse–destructive documentation differs from domestic abuse–informed
      

  • Connect the cross-cutting themes of intersections and intersectionalities to assessment
Day 4 | Case Planning
  • Review previous training topics and reinforce the importance of case planning

   
  • Introduce you to key elements of domestic abuse–informed case planning

  
  • Introduce domestic abuse–informed case planning with perpetrators, survivors, and children

  
  • Bring together the concepts from the training into your own cases

  
  • Organize your notes from your Action Planning Worksheet into an action plan that you can start enacting within the next six months

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More About Core Training

Core Training explores the importance of:

  • Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning
  • Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns
  • Partnering with adult survivors of domestic abuse
  • Intervening with perpetrators
  • How domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health

Participants of Core Training will:

  • Learn to use practice tools, such as our Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool, that can be implemented right away to improve assessment of risk, impact on children, survivor protective efforts, and essential case decisions.
  • Practice interviewing perpetrators, survivors, and children through modeling, role play, and videos.
  • Improve domestic abuse–informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
  • Discuss current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.
  • Develop action plans to support implementation of the Model to improve your day-to-day practice and influence your communities and family service systems to become more domestic abuse–informed.
  • Complete a pre- and post-test as well as a training evaluation.


Participants who attend all four days and take the post-test will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.

Participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the Core Training post-test will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.

Target Audience

  • Child welfare practitioners
  • Domestic violence advocates
  • Substance abuse, mental health & other community service providers
  • Batterer intervention or men’s behavior change staff
  • Court and legal personnel
  • Law enforcement
  • Health and home visitors
  • Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence