We're excited to offer the 2022 Asia Pacific Conference on-demand through our interactive Virtual Academy. Enjoy live access to keynote and breakout presentations - plus, on=demand access to most sessions after the conference ends!

We're excited to offer Safe & Together's OIDV International Summit on-demand through our interactive Virtual Academy. Enjoy video recordings of all keynote and breakout presentations on your time - plus, get access to all handouts and electronic resources.

(Now available on-demand) The 8th Safe & Together Model North America Conference was hosted LIVE REMOTE through our interactive Virtual Academy on December 9-11, 2020. Now we are excited to offer the opportunity to enjoy all keynote and breakout presentation recordings to everyone who couldn't join us live.

Partnering with adult survivors around the safety and well-being of their children is a central focus of domestic violence-informed practice. Domestic violence survivors and professionals share the common goals: for the abuse to stop and for 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 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. In this course, we describe a step-by-step process for partnering with adult survivors when children are involved. This method is useful for a wide variety of professionals and can even inform the work of attorneys, evaluators and others who are involved in assessments of families.

After years of only being available as part of the Safe & Together Model CORE training, the Perpetrator Mapping Tool will be moving online in 2022. The online mapping tool, which will be available open to individuals and agencies, guides users through a step-by-step process for assessing perpetrator’s patterns of behavior, and impact of those behaviors on child, partner and family functioning. The tool helps practitioners identify survivors’ protective capacities, and complexity related to mental health, addiction, privilege and vulnerabilities. The tool can be used by teams, and individual practitioners to improve partnering with survivors, and interventions with perpetrators as parents. In advance of the tool’s wider availability, David Mandel, creator of the Safe & Together Model, will be hosting a series of webinars on the Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool.

Enjoy our 2020 European Safe & Together Model Conference on your own time! This year's virtual event is now available as a self-paced e-course. The e-course includes full video recordings from all keynote and breakout sessions as well as electronic conference resources.

If we want to work with families, we cannot just work with women and children. We need to be able to work with men — from all types of families, especially poor and historically oppressed communities. We need to approach fathers with high expectations, and the willingness to learn new approaches and practices. Understanding male parental development and how men’s choices and behaviors impact child and family functioning is critical. Throughout this e-course, we highlight specific connections to the Safe & Together™ Model Principles, Critical Components, Multiple Pathways to Harm and Practice Tools.

This training is designed to introduce the basics of using Zoom for hosting virtual meetings and provides tips and tricks for case consultation with international child protection agencies.

During this time of need Safe & Together would like to be part of the solution by bringing diverse agencies from sectors touching domestic violence and child protection in order to facilitate virtual support, learning, sharing of resources around the world. Our communities are stronger and safer when we work together and share our challenges and successes in real time. We would like to invite practitioners from around the world to use our Virtual Academy platforms social media functions to communicate with community partners in a secure yet open sharing way.

“So, Has He Changed?” is a question asked commonly by domestic violence survivors, courts, child welfare, perpetrator intervention programs, evaluators and other professionals. But how can we meaningfully answer it? In this 1-hour webinar, David Mandel outlines steps to keep the attention of systems on perpetrators’ real behavior change and the importance of including the voices of survivors.

This e-course provides an introduction to the Safe & Together Model’s Multiple Pathways to Harm assessment and critical thinking framework. The course provides tools to apply a comprehensive assessment lens to the impact of domestic violence perpetrator behaviors on child and family functioning. This approach sets high standards for men as parents, engagement standards for men of diverse backgrounds and teaches how to partner with adult survivors. This child-centered Model derives its name from the concept that children are best served when we can work toward keeping them safe and together with the non-offending parent (the adult domestic violence survivor). The Model provides a framework for partnering with domestic violence survivors and intervening with domestic violence perpetrators in order to enhance the safety and well-being of children.

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 diagnosis 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.