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.

(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.

Join David Mandel, Executive Director and Founder of the Safe and Together Institute as he presents the ‘Choose to Change: Your Behavior, Your Choice’ Campaign Materials. During a time when communities are exploring how to offer more community-based resources to prevent domestic violence, these free resources are aimed at men who choose violence, professionals who work with them and their family and friends. This is a recorded webinar.

Survivors often choose to seek the help and support of family and friends before calling the police or engaging services. In this webinar, David Mandel and Ruth Stearns Mandel introduce a new guide designed to support allies. Recorded Webinar

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.

View our 3-part on-demand webinar series focused on interventions with men who choose violence. David Mandel is joined by leaders from around the globe to discuss innovative approaches to perpetrator behavior change and survivor support and partnership. Each webinar series video is about 90 minutes long.

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 times of stress on child welfare systems, intake, screening and assessment plays an even more critical role. Join David Mandel Executive Director and Founder of the Safe and Together Institute as he explores how to use the Safe & Together Model to identify risk in domestic violence cases.

In this four part webinar series David Mandel, Executive Director and Founder of the Safe & Together Institute, outlines key aspects of the Safe & Together Model and shares tools to help you become more domestic violence-informed in your systems and practice. Whether you have undertaken training in the Model or are new to the Model, these webinars are opportunities to learn, ask questions and receive concrete feedback. Each webinar series video is about 90 minutes long. Session dates/times: Session dates/times: 1. The Safe & Together Model: 15 Years of Practice Connecting Coercive Control to Child Well Being 17 May 11am EST / 4pm London *This webinar takes place at 1am on 18 May Melbourne 2. Worker Safety When Engaging with Domestic Violence Perpetrators  18 May 9am Perth / 11am Melbourne  *This webinar takes place 9pm 17 May EST New York  3. How Perpetrators Manipulate Systems and Professionals  16 June 9am Perth / 11am Melbourne  *This webinar takes place 9pm 15 June EST New York  4. Partnering with Survivors Starts with Perpetrator Accountability  16 June 11am EST / 4pm London *This webinar takes place at 1am on 17 June Melbourne 

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.

In this episode, Ruth and David have a discussion with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, author and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute. David, who has known Laura for a long time, has seen and felt the power, practicality and simplicity of her message. In this conversation, Laura discusses: how the current situation is impacting an already emotionally overwhelmed workforce the balancing the urgency of the moment with the need to take care of self simple strategies for self care that help your body metabolize stress

This training designed to offer information and practice guidance to child welfare professionals regarding conducting perpetrator pattern-based assessments during the pandemic.