Advanced One Day Practice Workshop
When working with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal adult and child victim-survivors, and people who use violence, documentation is never neutral. The language used in case notes, reports, and assessments shapes how risk is understood, how responsibility is attributed, and how Aboriginal women, children, families, and communities are perceived within service systems.
This advanced one day workshop strengthens practitioner capability to produce ethical, culturally safe, trauma-responsive, and perpetrator-facing documentation in family, domestic and sexual violence contexts.
Grounded in West Australian frameworks, including CRARMF, and informed by national and international best practice models, the workshop adopts a behaviour-pattern and perpetrator-driven risk approach. Participants will develop skills to ensure documentation:
- Keeps patterns of coercive control visible
- Centres survivor voices and strengths
- Avoids victim-blaming and pathologising language
- Recognises the ongoing impacts of colonisation, intergenerational trauma, systemic bias and structural disadvantage
- Supports Aboriginal self-determination and Aboriginal-led responses wherever possible
