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This interactive, hybrid (LMS package for your workplace and a live in-person or online session), evidence-based course is designed to equip HR professionals and managers with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to respond to family and domestic violence (FDV) in the workplace. The course goes beyond awareness, focusing on practical responses, trauma-informed investigations, and workplace policy implementation that reflect both legal obligations and gender-informed best practices.

Family and domestic violence can have serious impacts on employees’ wellbeing, safety, performance, and workplace participation. This training recognises family violence as a workplace issue, one that intersects with gender, race, class, age, disability, and other forms of systemic inequality, and provides tailored strategies to create safer, more supportive environments.

This module will equip workplaces to become informed and responsive, ensuring consistent, collaborative approaches to family violence prevention and response in the workplace by providing employees with the tools to support colleagues and clients sensitively and effectively. This module also provides information on the legal obligations surrounding Family and Domestic Violence Leave entitlements through the Australian Federal Government.

The module can be downloaded as a SCORM package for your organisation with options to tailor to your corporate branding, receiving a certificate upon completion.

Key Features of the Learning Module:

Comprehensive Coverage: Learn about the different forms of family violence, its impacts, risk factors, and relevant legal frameworks.
Practical Guidance: Step-by-step instructions on identifying signs of family violence and being an effective upstander.
Interactive Learning: Engaging quizzes to deepen understanding and ensure active participation.
Flexibility & Accessibility: Available online anytime, with closed captions and multilingual options.
Tailored for All Organisations: Relevant for any organisation, with the option for tailored content upon request.

Certification: Participants receive a certificate of completion, supporting continuing education and demonstrating commitment to addressing family violence.

Behind Closed Doors is a half-day primary prevention workshop for organisations who believe that everyone has a part to play in ending family violence. We have designed this workshop to support a range of organisations from corporate, mining, education, health, government, and not-for-profits as the first step to towards primary prevention. Through employing experiential learning we can foster a deep understanding of the complexities and nature of family violence while ensuring we provide practical skills to support survivors and be a positive upstander.

Participants will engage in scenes that simulate real-life scenarios, allowing them to step into the shoes of both victims and users of violence. By immersing themselves in these experiences, attendees not only gain practical knowledge but also internalise the importance of creating safe and supportive environments for themselves and their loved ones, thereby contributing to the prevention of family violence in their communities.

The Awareness, Respect, and Change (ARC) Program is a primary prevention and response initiative by DART and provides a tiered approach to support businesses and organisations to implement and embed respectful and healthy relationships within their community. Utilising 5 key pillars for effective change, the ARC Program teaches us all how to be champions in the prevention of sexual harassment, family violence and unhealthy behaviours.

The ARC Program aligns with national competency and meets recommendations for training and education on sexual harassment through the Enough is Enough and Respect@Work Reports and has been developed by family domestic and sexual violence specialists in WA.

If you’re interested in tailored training specific to your organisation and staff, please email us at info@dartinstitute.org.au or complete the contact form.

Upstander Intervention is a 3-hour in-person or virtual course that supports the skills of participants to challenge sexist attitudes and behaviours safely and effectively in personal and professional life. Join us to explore effective ways to increase your confidence to call out inappropriate behaviour.

If you’re interested in tailored training specific to your organisation and staff, please email us at info@dartinstitute.org.au or complete the contact form.

Unconscious bias is a 3-hour training that supports employees in identifying attitudes and patterns of perceptions that are held subconsciously. Unconscious bias influences thoughts and actions that can create unfair advantages or disadvantages without the decision-maker’s awareness.

Through this interactive session you will learn about explicit and unconscious bias, examine commonly found biases in the workplace and how these impact on performance and discuss solutions and tools available to individuals and groups to overcome the issue of unconscious bias.

Responding to disclosures is a 3-hour in-person or virtual course that supports employees in recognising indicators of family violence, responding through a survivor strength and trauma-informed lens, and asking questions about family violence ensuring sensitive and safe management of disclosures. Participants will also gain awareness of pathways for referral and safety planning.

Family violence in the workplace is a 2-hour in-person or virtual course that, explores how to recognise and respond to FDV in the workplace. It provides participants with roles and responsibilities of organisations, the impacts of family violence in the workplace, and how to support someone who experiences FDV.

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