The Safe & Together Model

Foundation Bundle

6 Essential Courses

Self-paced, interactive learning

The Safe & Together Foundation Bundle

Questions these courses address:

  • How can we better support survivors of domestic violence?
  • How do I identify the perpetrator’s pattern of behavior and how it affects the family system?
  • How can I do better work with men as parents?
  • How do I work with those with mental health diagnosis, addictions who are also violent to their families?
  • How can we support workers who are managing cases that involve people who choose violence?
The Safe & Together Foundation Bundle

Improving Outcomes

  • Recognizing that the perpetrator’s pattern of behavior and choices are the sole source of the harm to children caused by domestic violence is key to creating high-quality risk assessments and safety plans.
  • Partnering with adult & child survivors increases the efficacy & efficiency of your interventions with at risk families.
  • Identifying intersections between domestic violence, mental health and addiction assists practitioners in creating clear treatment plans which understand the impact of perpetration on those conditions while holding abusers as parents behaviorally accountable & supporting healing.
 
THe Safe & Together FOundation Bundle

Become Domestic Violence Informed

Being domestic violence informed creates real critical change.  Becoming domestic violence informed will help your workers to better assess child wellbeing & safety when domestic violence is a factor, while identifying the strengths of the protective parent.   In these courses, practitioners learn to create clarity around how perpetrators patterns impact treatment & recovery plans for survivors & how they manipulate diagnosis to weaponize them against survivors. Check out our Virtual Academy and become a domestic violence-informed organization & be part of the change! 

What's Included?

Safe & Together™: An Introduction to the Model

Introduction to Model helps your workers become domestic violence informed. Children and their well-being is best served when they are with the domestic violence survivor. The Model provides a framework for partnering with domestic violence survivors and intervening with domestic violence perpetrators as parents in order to enhance the safety and well-being of children.

This course will help practitioners to gain basic knowledge of the principles & components which create the framework of the Safe & Together Model. 
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By identifying the perpetrators’ patterns of behaviors & understanding how those patterns are parenting choices which impact the safety & wellbeing of kids we can create more effective interventions which help to keep children safe with their protective parent. 

Multiple Pathways to Harm: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework

Assessing the impact of domestic violence perpetrator behaviors on child and family functioning requires using a comprehensive assessment lens. It takes skill and practice to full assess these complex family dynamics.  This course provides an introduction to the Safe & Together Model’s Multiple Pathways to Harm assessment and critical thinking framework. 

In this course, you will learn the best strategies for comprehensive, accurate assessment of the impact of the domestic violence perpetrator on child wellbeing and family functioning. This course defines accountability, the standard of behaviors, and creates opportunities for practice and systems change.
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This child-centered approach sets high standards for men as parents, engagement standards for families of diverse backgrounds and provides guidelines for partnering with adult survivors.

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Working with Men as Parents: Fathers' Parenting Choices Matter

Working with men as parents is essential to understanding and improving the well-being and safety of children and families. This course helps you to work with men as parents around their behavioral choices which deeply impact child well-being and family functioning.

This course helps to define the best practices for working with men as parents, especially those that are from poor and historically oppressed and marginalized communities.
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"Children want us to work with their fathers, to help them become the parents they need them to be."
- David Mandel, CEO
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Intersections: When Domestic Violence Perpetration, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Meet

Many families impacted by domestic violence perpetrators’ behaviors have multiple, complex, intersecting issues. In the past, we might have referred to these as co-occurring issues. But the language of co-occurrence often doesn’t provide us with a sense of how these issues interact. For example, listing the family’s issues is not as powerful as explaining how the domestic violence perpetrator interfered with his partner’s recovery or the children's sense of safety. 

Using an intersections framework, versus a co-occurrence framework, we increase perpetrator accountability, improve our ability to diagnose and treat each member of the family, and improve our ability to help adult and child survivors.

This course will provide guidance on how to understand the connections, or intersections, and make them work for us in our practice. 
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Using an intersections framework, versus a co-occurrence framework, we increase perpetrator accountability, improve our ability to diagnose and treat each member of the family, and improve our ability to help the adult and children survivors. 

Partnering with Survivors

Partnering with adult survivors around the safety and well-being of their children is a central focus of domestic violence-informed practice. We want to keep children, safely, with the protective parent.

When practitioners partner well with an adult survivor, the survivor is more apt to share information about a) the perpetrator’s pattern, b) the impact of the perpetrator on child and family functioning and c) the survivor’s efforts around the protection of the children.

This course provides practical guidance for successfully partnering with survivors to improve assessment and increase the effectiveness of safety plans for the adult survivor and children. 
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By working with, not against the adult survivor, practitioners are more likely to be successful in their role related to child safety and well-being. The adult survivor is their natural ally. 

Worker Safety and Domestic Violence in Child Welfare Systems

When the staff feels supported, safe, and cared for, they will deliver their best work for the families in your communities. This training is designed to help you think critically about how systems can support workers’ safety when working with domestic violence perpetrators as parents. This course gives strategies for improving workers’ safety and effective practice with families. It gives the skills to create an agency environment that promotes an open dialogue about worker safety concerns and provides strategies for overcoming them.
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Creating a safe environment for your staff is critical for long-term workers' satisfaction, retention, and outcomes. 

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