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2020 CATALOG OF
GLOBALPROFESSIONAL
TRAININGS & SERVICES
Our Mission To create, nurture and sustain a global network of domestic violence-informed child welfare professionals, communities and systems.
What we are dedicated to Advancing inquiry, knowledge, practice and collaboration related to a perpetrator pattern-based approach within the intersection domestic violence and children
Developing a network of professionals, organizations and communities that work together to create domestic violence informed-child welfare and related systems
How we do it Supporting the implementation of the Safe & Together™ Model through training, certi�cation and systems consultation
Supporting implementation of the Safe Engagement Model for fathers through training, certi�cation and systems consultation
Innovative partnerships with individuals, agencies and communities
Data collection, writing conferences and events to advance learning, dialog and practice
Development and dissemination of practical tools to promote real-world systems change and practice improvement
Commitment to examining the role of gender, culture and sexual orientation in all its work
What we o�er Organizational Assessment & Consultation CORE and Advanced Training Mapping and Other Practice Tools
Coach, Trainer and Advocate certi�cations
Data and Research E-Courses and Companion Guides
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The mission of child welfare systems around the world is safety, well being and permanency. These systems are intended to be the guardians of last resort, protecting children from intimate harm by their parents, other caretakers and trusted members of the community. Many systems are ill-equipped to deal with the problem in a comprehensive, holistic, family-centered manner. The intersection of domestic violence and other key issues is often given no, or only, cursory consideration. Child welfare decisions about services and policy without meaningful data on domestic violence.
Our work is grounded in the idea that, latent in child welfare systems, is the potential to be a powerful ally to adults and children harmed by a domestic violence perpetrator’s behaviors. Systems are most effective when they say to the adult survivor, “We want to help you and your children be safer and healthier. Tell us what we can do to help.”
The Safe & Together Institute’s model helps child welfare systems become domestic violence-informed. But the audience for this work is much larger than the child welfare system. It’s for anyone who is interested in the intersection of domestic violence and children. Our work touches upon issues relevant to the legal system, domestic violence advocates and children’s advocates. We tackle the intersections of substance abuse, mental health and domestic violence. We address how intersectionalities like race, class, gender, and sexual orientation increase vulnerability and power. Perhaps most importantly, we stress the importance of higher expectations of men as parents and giving mothers full credit for their protective efforts.
Our goal, put simply, is for adult and child domestic violence survivors to feel like child welfare systems on their side. This idea is embedded in the name “Safe & Together,” which refers to the belief that children are often best served when we can work to keep them “Safe and Together” with the adult domestic violence survivor. At the same time, we recognize that many domestic violence perpetrators will remain in contact with their children and therefore it is critical, for the sake of the children, that we seek to encourage consistent, positive and meaningful change in perpetrators.
We believe our approach also makes it more likely the child welfare system will be more responsive to the needs of families from diverse backgrounds such as including poor families, indigenous families in North America, Australia and New Zealand, and families of color in the United States.
Domestic violence-informed systems and individual practice change takes time, commitment and the tools needed to support transformation. The Safe & Together Institute provides a wide range of transformation tools. This catalog of offerings outlines what is currently available. I hope that one or more of these tools can assist you in your journey. I believe together we can make big changes!
David Mandel, MA, LPCExecutive Director
Founder’s StatementDavid Mandel
HOW TO GET STARTED: Safe & Together Institute offers multiple levels of progressive training centered around domestic violence-informed practice with the goal of informing organizational and systems change. The training courses are focused on skills development that will improve individuals’ professional practice. However, the goal for our training is always to inform organizational and systems change toward more domestic violence-informed communities. We suggest starting with our Overview Training, then progress through CORE Training, 3-day Supervisor Training and the 2-day Advocacy Training. For more information about training and to customize the training plan that fits your needs, please contact Heidi Rankin at [email protected]
TRAINING
Safe & Together Model: 1-Day Overview TrainingDescription: This one-day training provides participants with an introduction to, and overview of, the Safe & TogetherTM Model. The presentation provides participants with information about creating a domestic violence-informed child welfare system, the principles and components of the Safe & Together Model and information about the framework behind competency-building in child welfarearound domestic violence. Prerequisite: None
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Safe & Together Model: 4-Day CORE TrainingDescription: This training is designed to provide a skills-orientedfoundation for domestic violence-informed practice. While the training is designed to increase knowledge, the goal is changing professional behavior. Prerequisite: None
Key Denotes a course with a prerequisite
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Safe & Together Model Advanced Training: 2-Day Partnering with Adult Survivors Description: 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 helping professionals share the common goals for the abuse to stop and for the children to thrive. 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. This training is designed to build upon prior Safe & Together Model CORE training concepts and to provide a skills-oriented foundation for applying CORE concepts to partnering practice with adult survivors.
E-course: Partnering with Adult Survivors (coming soon!)
Safe & Together Model Advanced Training: 2-Day Intersections Description: 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, for example. Listing that the family has experienced both domestic violence and mental health issues is not as useful as describing how the perpetrator’s violence has produced anxiety and aggression in the adult survivor. Using an intersections framework, versus a co-occurrence framework, we increase perpetrator accountability, improve our ability to assess the family, and our ability to partner with adult survivors. This course will provide guidance in how to understand the connections, or intersections, and make them work for us in our practice.
This course is primarily focused on the adult perpetrator and survivor. Due to the diversity of developmental issues and complexity of treatment issues, this course is not able to provide an in-depth examination of children and their behavioral health and substance abuse issues.
E-course: Intersection
Safe & Together Model: 2-Day for Supervisors & Managers Description: This is a 2-day in-person training program for supervisors and managers of child welfare-involved cases. These two days are designed to introduce foundational Safe & TogetherTM Model CORE training concepts and to provide a skills-oriented foundation for applying these concepts to domestic violence-informed supervisory practice. While the training is designed to increase knowledge, the training focuses on the following three skill areas: assessing the quality of workers’ domestic violence practice, addressing worker safety concerns, and providing domestic violence-informed decision-making and guidance. The training uses a coaching framework to guide supervisory practice. Prerequisite: Supervisors and Managers must have completed the 4-DAY CORE training prior to attending the 2-Day Supervisor Training
Safe & Together Model: 3-Day for Supervisors & Managers Description: This is a 3-day in-person training program for supervisors and managers of child welfare-involved cases. These three days are designed to introduce foundational Safe & TogetherTM Model CORE training concepts and to provide a skills-oriented foundation for applying these concepts to domestic violence-informed supervisory practice. While the training is designed to increase knowledge, the training focuses on the following three skill areas: assessing the quality of workers’ domestic violence practice, addressing worker safety concerns, and providing domestic violence-informed decision-making and guidance. The training utilizes a coaching framework to guide supervisory practice. Prerequisite: Supervisors and Managers must have completed both the Introduction to the Model E-Learning Course AND the Multiple Pathways to Harm E-Learning Course prior to attending the 3-Day Supervisor Training.
Cards & MagnetsHelp support staff learning and sustainability of the Safe & Together™ Model in the field and in meetings, or share with community partners with 4”x6”, glossy, full-color cards (or posters!)with the Safe & Together Principles and Critical Components printed on front and back.
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As part of our mission to influence domestic violence-informed systems change on a global scale, we offer programs that uniquely equip organizations with the training, tools, and support to implement the Model in their organizations and local communities. These programs include a training component as well as support for organizational and systems change. Currently, there are two options: For more information about Certification Programs please contact Shelly Napoletano-Flyyn at [email protected]
CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS
TCPSafe & Together Model Trainer Certification ProgramThe Safe & Together™ Model Trainer Certification Program is a robust suite of tools designed to enhance the capacity of agencies and communities to transform into more domestic violence-informed systems, and to keep children ‘safe and together’ with non-offending parents. The Certification Program has been designed to be used on its own to augment system change or within the context of a wider relationship of services with the Safe & Together Institute such as our evaluation and assessment services.
Safe & Together Model Coach Certification ProgramThe Safe & Together Model Coaching Certification is designed to prepare a group of child welfare practitioners (or other related professionals) to provide domestic violence-informed coaching to their peers. The coaching revolves around teaching a defined set of domestic violence tools and strategies to a group of workers (the “coaches”) so they can provide support for their peers.
Safe & Together Model Advocate Certification ProgramCOMING SOON!
1 Keeping child safe and together with non-offending parent Safety Healing from trauma Stability and nurturance
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Safe & Together™ Principles
2 Partnering with non-‐offending parent as default position Efficient Effective Child-‐centered
3 Intervening with perpetrator to reduce risk and harm to child Engagement Accountability Courts
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Safe & Together™ Critical Components
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Role of substance
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Worker Safety in Domestic Violence CasesWhile there are many strategies needed to address worker safety, re�ective supervision is one critical way
for agencies to advance their domestic violence practice. Key Questions for Supervisors to Assess Safety:1. What do we know about the perpetrators’ pattern of violence and control as it relates to responding to
outside interveners, including: a. their response to any prior child welfare involvement; b. any law enforcement involvement; or c. any interventions by family and friends to help the adult and child survivors?
2. What safety concerns does this information raise for us? Where do we have gaps in our knowledge
about the perpetrator’s pattern toward outsiders that we need to address to fully assess worker safety
in this case?3. Are there any prior experiences you have had that you think are impacting your sense of safety (for
yourself and the family)?4. How are we partnering with the adult survivor around how our involvement may impact her and the
children’s safety? 5. Do we have any concerns about the perpetrator targeting you based on your demographics, e.g.
gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, etc.
Co-branding and S&TI Marketing
CORE & Overview Training
Revenue Generation and Service Agreement
Evaluation and Quality Assurance
Support for Implementation and Organizational Change
5-day Train The Trainer
Mentoring
Full Certi�cation
Continuing Education
Additional CredentialingOpportunities
TCP
Trainer Certification Program
Concrete Strategies. Meaningful Tools. Real Change.
Partner AgencyCertified Tr
ainer
BECOMING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-INFORMED AGENCY
What is a Partner Agency?When great forces come together, great change is possible. We are proud to partner with many agencies leading the way in domestic violence-informed work! We are looking for agencies that demonstrate a commitment to domestic violence-informed practice, high quality training and are interested in supporting the dissemination of the Model. Ideally, becoming a Partner Agency involves a plan around whole-system change including organizational evaluation services, e-course training and more.
Certified Trainers are one way an agency can enhance their own staff capacity and/or the capacity of their community to respond to domestic violence cases involving children. The Trainer Certification Program consists of two interlocking elements:
• The Partner Agency relationship• Certification and credentialing processes of individual trainers to deliver Safe & Together™ Model curricula with fidelity
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Each year we travel the globe bringing conference attendees the latest in research, best practices, systems change and training. We rely on local practitioners who have implemented Safe & Together™ Model to enrich the conversation, connect the material to the local context, and expand on lessons learned. For more information about our events please contact Amy Cook at [email protected]
CONFERENCES
Safe & Together Model Asia Pacific ConferenceCentered in Melbourne, Australia — and partnered with Berry Street — the Asia Pacific Conference brings together practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, Sin-gapore and more.
Safe & Together Model European ConferenceUsed by practitioners, agencies and communities across the globe, the Model has been adopted in the United Kingdom by local authorities, the Ministry of Defence and non-governmental agencies.
Safe & Together Model North America ConferenceOur longest-running conference, the North American event brings experts from multiple fields to present various aspects of domestic violence research, impact and intersections.
Developed in conjunction with Kempe Innovative Design, a leader in online learning for child welfare audiences, Safe & Together Institute E-Courses bring the Safe & Together™ Model to you anytime, anywhere. Using reality-based scenarios and interactive practice activities, e-courses are designed to be “standalone” or as part of a wider implementation of domestic violence-informed systems change. For more information about e-courses, and for implementation support for an e-learning program that fits your needs, please contact Ruth Stearns [email protected]
E-COURSES
COMING SOON! Partnering with Adult SurvivorsDescription: 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 helping professionals share the common goals for the abuse to stop and for the children to thrive. 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. This training is designed to build upon prior Safe & Together Model CORE training concepts and to provide a skills-oriented foundation for applying CORE concepts to partnering practice with adult survivors.
Multiple Pathways to Harm: A Comprehensive Assessment FrameworkDescription: This course provides an introduction to the Safe and Together Model’s “Multiple Pathways to Harm”assessment and critical thinking framework. The Safe and Together Model is an internationally recognized approach to working with families with children where domestic violence is present. This Model is being used across the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, and Asia. In this course you will learn about how to apply comprehensive assessment lens to the impact of domestic violence perpetrator behaviors on child and family functioning. You will learn about how this approach helps you have high standards for men as parents, better engage men from diverse backgrounds and partner with adult survivors. You will learn an approach that can help you with service recommendations for children and families. You will also learn that despite perpetrators’ harmful actions adult survivors are often working very hard to promote their children’s safety and well being.
Safe & Together: An Introduction to the ModelDescription: This course provides an introduction to the internationally recognized Safe and Together™ Model. The Model has been implemented in multiple states across the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, and other countries. It is a set of concepts, tools, and practices to improve how agencies, communities, and individuals respond to domestic violence where children are involved. The first half of the course will introduce you to the ideas and concepts behind the Model. You’ll learn about gaps and challenges related to domestic violence cases involving children, the importance of applying a perpetrator pattern based approach, and how partnerships with adult survivors are critical to domestic violence-informed practice. You will also learn how to improve assessment addressing perpetration as parenting choice and giving mothers full credit for their protective efforts. In the second half of the course you will be introduced to the practice principles and critical components of the Model and how they can help make a difference in case practice.
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Intersections: When Domestic Violence Perpetration, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health MeetDescription: 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, for example. Listing that the family has experienced both domestic violence and mental health issues is not as useful as describing how the perpetrator’s violence has produced anxiety and aggression in the adult survivor. Using an intersections framework, versus a co-occurrence framework, we increase perpetrator accountability , improve our ability to assess the family, and our ability to partner with adult survivors. This course will provide guidance in how to understand the connections, or intersections, and make them work for us in our practice.
This course is primarily focused on the adult perpetrator and survivor. Due to the diversity of developmental issues and complexity of treatment issues, this course is not able to provide an in-depth examination children and their behavioral health and substance abuse issues.
Working with Men as Parents: Fathers’ Parenting Choices Matter Description: If we want to work with families, we cannot just work with women and children. We need to be able to work with men. This is important for all families but may be even more important for families from poor and historically oppressed communities. To do this correctly, we need to approach fathers, in a manner consistent with domestic violence-informed practice. This means approaching men with high expectations, and the willingness to learn new approaches and practices. Working with men requires being able to understand male parental development and how men’s choices and behaviors impacts child and family functioning. It involves understanding how to use this information to engage men and to development meaningful child and family focused interventions. It also involves being able to integrate these understandings into our work with women and children. In this course we will be considering all these items from the perspective of domestic violence-informed policy and practice, diverse communities and different disciplines. Throughout this course we will highlight specific connections to the Safe and Together Model Principles, Critical Components, Multiple Pathways to Harm and Practice Tools.
Companion documents serve as a supplemental resource to our online courses. This companion is designed to be used either individually following the completion of the e-learning course or used as a guide to aid a group discussion to support what individual learners have engaged in during their completion of the course. This companion is not intended to replace content within the course, but rather to add depth, context, and encourage critical thinking that will support individuals applying the course content to their day-to-day practice. For more information about our e-course companion documents please contact Brittany DiBella at [email protected]
E-COURSE COMPANIONS
Companion documents can be personalized to your agency with the following three components: • Bridging content to support reflection on how the e-learning content relates to
a current practice model or approach used locally. • Localization material to bring the e-learning content to the local context in
order to support better application of the skills and knowledge gained from the course.
• Application material focuses on specific functions and roles of different professional disciplines. This is about applying the e-learning content to discipline specific skills.
It’s important we continually validate our model — gathering information from training participants, implementation and hands-on experience in communities around the world. The Safe & Together Institute partners with Michigan State University (MSU) Research Consortium on Gender-Based Violence for data collection and analysis. The MSU evaluation unit helps S&TI evaluate our work in different locations to determine its effectiveness for systems and families.
Our research is organized into “levels,” using the Kirkpatrick Model, encompassing reaction, learning, behavior and results. Project specific evaluation services are available as part of any contract.
Evaluation Services
Level 1, participants are questioned about increased confidence, practice skills learned and hopes for changing practice.
Level II, participants are measured both on their pre-existing knowledge related to the Safe & Together™ Model and domestic violence-informed practice then upon completion of the CORE Training, of their acquired knowledge.
Level III surveys participants at regular intervals regarding how well they were able to transfer their knowledge into practice, to implementation of the Model and to address barriers.
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The Safe & Together Institute has developed tools and processes to help child welfare agencies and communities assess their own progress toward becoming domestic violence-informed. The tools can be used in conjunction with each other or separately.• Case Reading Process• Domestic Violence-Informed Organizational Self-Assessment• Data Review and Consultation• Policy and Protocol Review and ConsultationFor more information about organizational and systems assessments, and to develop an assessment plan that fits your needs, please contact Kyle Pinto at [email protected]
Organizational & Systems Assessment
Domestic Violence-Informed Organizational & Systems Asssessments All child welfare systems fall on the Continuum of Domestic Violence Practice (CODVP) from “domestic violence destructive” to “domestic violence proficient.” The purpose of this assessment process is to help child welfare agencies assess where they fall on the CODVP. Using a series of questions focused on both policy and day-to-day practice, the proces covers a number of areas including universal screening, high standards for fathers, survivors’ protective efforts, services, data collection and more. The assessment provides child welfare agencies with baseline information about their organization’s domestic violence proficiency, and can lead to recommendations that inform organizational needs, planning and implementation around training, practice guidelines, policies, protocols, and supervisory practices.
Data Review and ConsultationMany child welfare agencies have devoted very little time to understanding how domestic violence is measured on their caseload and how the presence of domestic violence in families intersects with important outcomes like out-of-home removal and repeat maltreatment rates. Systems rarely have an accurate picture of the relationship of domestic violence to other key initiatives such as differential response or trauma. As part of an organizational assessment (or separately), the Safe & Together Institute provides a data review, which includes investigating where the presence of domestic violence is currently captured in the system; definitions of domestic violence used to capture those data points; and how the current data picture is tied to priority agency outcome measures. Safe & Together then offers recommendations for domestic violence data collection and improved reporting for a clearer picture of the role domestic violence plays in agency decision-making and outcomes.
Policy and Protocol Review and ConsultationSimilar to the data review, many child welfare agencies have not systematically reviewed their policy and protocols from a domestic violence-informed perspective. The Safe & Together Institute reviews policies and protocols in order to assess how consistent they are with a perpetrator-pattern, child-centered, survivor strength-based approach. A final report summarizes strengths, gaps and recommendations for change.
AT SAFE & TOGETHER, THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE.• We set high standards for ourselves. We won’t settle for anything less than sustainable, real change: in
systems and the safety and wellbeing of families.• We are compassionately honest and direct with our audiences about what they need to change and do
to achieve their mission — from the frontline worker to the policy-makers.• Our work with fathers must be connected to positive outcomes for women and children.• We are committed to keeping children, whenever possible, safe and together with the adult survivor
parent.
We believe in a perpetrator pattern-based approach for domestic violence involving children.At Safe & Together, we use a perpetrator pattern-based framework that is informed by a gender analysis that informs every aspect of our work. It is a unique, comprehensive framework at the intersection of domestic violence and children.
We tackle the myth of “objective” or “gender neutral” practices, putting child healing, safety, stability, nurturance, rights, hopes and best interests at the center of our work. This means we support the survivors and do not allow the perpetrator to be invisible.
We focus on “how,” not just “what.”
Public Awareness PostersDid you know? Safe & Together Institute offers a line of public awareness posters to encourage men to stop abusive behavior and consider how their actions affect children.
Ask about having posters co-branded with your agency’s logo!
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David Mandel, MA, LPCExecutive Director
MEET THE SAFE & TOGETHER INSTITUTE TEAM
Kyle Pinto, MSWAssociate Director
Anna MitchellSafe & Together United Kingdom Lead
Shelly Napoletano Flynn, MSWProject Coordinator
Heidi Rankin, MPAAssociate Director
Brittany DiBella, MSW, DVSResource Development Specialist
Ruth StearnsCommunications and E-Learning Manager
Amy Cook, BAEvent Coordinator
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to one of us!
NOTES & CONTACTS
Contact Us Safe & Together Institute 1-860-319-0966 (USA) www.SafeandTogetherInstitute.com
