SAFE & TOGETHER INSTITUTE

Foundation Bundle

Do you often wonder what are the best ways to deal with domestic violence cases? Do you need help identifying the perpetrator’s pattern of behavior and how it affects the family system? Do you want to help support your employees? Do you need help working with men as parents? Are you having trouble understanding how to work with those with mental health diagnosis, addictions who are also violent to their families? Do you want to help support your employees' domestic violence informed practice & the efficacy of your outcomes? Do you want to increase workers’ safety when working with domestic violence involved families? Safe & Together’s foundational bundle can help address all these critical issues. 

The Safe & Together Institute has combined the foundational courses into this affordable bundle that will create practice and systems change for your workers & your agency. 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. Being domestic violence informed creates real critical change. Learning how perpetrators’ patterns of behaviors have harmed & endangered their families & 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.  Understanding intersections assists practitioners in crafting treatment plans which consider the impact of ongoing abuse & coercive control on the health & wellbeing of adult & child survivors. 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 & part of the change! 
What's Included:

Safe & Together™: An Introduction to the Model

Introduction to Model helps your workers become domestic violence informed. 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. Children and their well-being is best served when they are with the domestic violence survivor. This course will help practitioners to gain basic knowledge of the principles & components which create the framework of the Safe & Together Model. 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.
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Multiple Pathways to Harm: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework

Assessment and critical thinking are extremely important when becoming domestic violence informed. This course helps to define 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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Working with Men as Parents: Fathers' Parenting Choices Matter

Working with men as parents is very important 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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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. Listing that the family has experienced both domestic violence and child behavioral health issues is not as useful as describing how the perpetrator’s violence has produced anxiety and aggression in the children. 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. This course will provide guidance on how to understand the connections, or intersections, and make them work for us in our practice. Understanding the intersectionalities between domestic violence, addiction, mental health, and their role in the children’s lives helps to get everyone the help they need.
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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. Domestic violence survivors and professionals want the abuse to stop and the children to thrive. 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. In addition, 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. All three will improve assessment and lead to the development of more effective safety plans for the adult survivor and children. Becoming domestic violence informed is critical for success.
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Worker Safety and Domestic Violence in Child Welfare Systems

Creating a safe environment for your staff is critical for long-term workers satisfaction, retention, and outcomes. 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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