A 3 hour workshop for practitioners working within coordinated, multi-agency family and domestic violence responses

This workshop builds practitioners’ confidence and skill in engaging in perpetrator-facing work through a victim-centred lens, keeping the safety, voice and autonomy of victim survivors at the centre of every intervention with a person using violence.

Participants will explore how to talk with victim survivors about family and domestic violence in ways that respect the relationship they navigate, while clearly conveying that responsibility and accountability for the violence sits with the person using it. The workshop covers how to document information about a person using violence, including the risks and impacts of their behaviour, in client records, and how this information is shared with victim survivors and other services in line with policy and information sharing legislation.

A key focus is proactively involving victim survivors in decision-making and safety planning where coordinated responses activate direct intervention with a person using violence, including practice guidance for partner or mother contact roles linked to men’s behaviour change programs or other perpetrator response programs, ensuring victim survivors remain empowered to decide how communication and coordination happens, with safety prioritised throughout. The session will also address the practitioner’s role in identifying and recording systemic failures to hold people who use violence accountable, informing broader advocacy to strengthen the family and domestic violence response system.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to engage in perpetrator-facing practice that is victim-centred, accountable and integrated within coordinated multi-agency responses.

Duration: 3 hours

Audience: Practitioners engaged in coordinated and multi-agency family and domestic violence responses, including those in partner or mother contact roles