A 2 day workshop for practitioners in family and domestic violence services, aligned to the national unit of competency CHCDFV004
Developed and delivered by a cultural safety trainer
This two day program builds practitioners’ understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of family and domestic violence, and equips them to work in culturally safe, trauma informed ways with Aboriginal women, children and families. The program is aligned to the national unit of competency CHCDFV004.
Day one grounds participants in context, history and cultural foundations. Participants will build cultural safety, awareness, competence and humility, and explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of family violence, kinship and relational harm. The day examines the impact of colonisation, dispossession and intergenerational trauma, systemic drivers of harm including institutional racism and service system mistrust, and introduces response based practice, language and dignity. The day closes by exploring barriers to disclosure and engagement, and the role of healing, culture, Country and strength based recovery.
Day two moves into application, engagement, risk and collaboration. Participants will explore place based practice and local community contexts, and how to engage Aboriginal women and children through trust and relational practice. The day covers culturally safe risk identification and safety planning under the CRARMF, bringing the person using violence into view while working with the whole family, and working alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations. Participants will also explore collaborative case management, embedding cultural safety into case practice, language and documentation, and close with practitioner reflection on bias, accountability and workforce wellbeing.
By the end of the program, participants will be able to apply culturally safe, trauma informed and place based principles across engagement, risk assessment and case practice, and work more effectively alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and local community networks, while reflecting critically on their own practice, bias and accountability.
Duration: 2 days
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
CRARMF Comprehensive Training is a two-day tertiary course that provides the advanced knowledge and skills for staff to undertake in-depth, comprehensive risk assessment where clients are at risk due to family and domestic violence.
Participants will also learn how to work collaboratively to develop comprehensive safety plans and manage risk. Participants will also learn relevant skills to contribute to an effective Multi-Agency Case Management Meeting (MACM).
This course utilises the West Australian Common Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework (CRARMF) and has been developed in line with National Competency CHCDFV012 Make Safety Plans with People Experiencing Domestic and Family Violence.
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.
The CCAM is an Australian first in leading coercive control training (developed by a team of national and internationally recognised specialists) in line with state-based jurisdiction.
The CCAM is a 3-day intensive masterclass training and provides advanced knowledge and skills for those working in the family violence service system response or intersecting systems, to undertake thorough coercive control screening, ensure comprehensive documentation on risk, map patterns of behaviour, microaggressions, and resistive violence, impacts on children and family, and prioritise health and safety.
Participants will integrate knowledge into practice and develop advanced skills to understand and conduct complex and comprehensive coercive control risk assessments in line with current risk tools, ensure perpetrator-driven risk assessments and perpetrator-facing practice, partner with victim-survivors and lead or participate in multi-agency (safety action) case management to keep victims safe and hold perpetrators in view and accountable.
This course utilises current risk tools such as the CRARMF and MARAM and has been developed in line with National Competency CHCDFV008 – Manage responses to domestic and family violence in family work, and CHCDFV011 – Establish and maintain the safety of people who have experienced domestic and family violence.
This one-day training focuses on the critical skill of developing a detailed and accurate chronology in Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) cases. Participants will learn the importance of constructing a clear, fact-based timeline of events to support case investigations, legal proceedings, and interventions. The training covers strategies for gathering evidence, documenting incidents, and organising information in a way that highlights patterns of abuse, risk, and escalation. Key topics include:
By the end of this training, participants will have enhanced skills in creating comprehensive chronologies that can aid in victim-survivor protection, advocacy, perpetrator visibility, and securing legal outcomes in FDV cases.
Family and Domestic Violence-informed Supervisor training is a two-day tertiary course. This course provides the advanced knowledge and skills for staff to be able to undertake in-depth, comprehensive FDV and sexual violence-informed supervision to their staff. Participants will also learn the competencies of effective supervisors, function of supervision, and processes while bringing FDV and sexual violence-informed skills into supervision.
This course is recommended for supervisors and managers who have attended previous FDV-informed training.
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.
The one-day training on Family Violence Case Planning and Case Management provided participants with the knowledge, tools, and strategies needed to effectively plan and manage cases involving individuals affected by family violence.
The session focused on practical approaches to supporting survivors, coordinating interventions, and ensuring long-term safety and well-being.
When working with survivors (adult and child) or users of violence, it is essential to use language that reflects a survivor, strength-based approach, a perpetrator-facing, and a perpetrator-driven risk approach. This ensures behaviour patterns are prominent and visible, survivor resistance and strengths are at the forefront of responses, and service responses are better able to assess risk and imminency to risk.
Accordingly, in domestic and family violence work, our language should focus on perpetrator accountability and a behaviour pattern-based approach.
This one-day workshop will provide further skills and knowledge of best practices when capturing documentation in family domestic and sexual abuse matters.
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.
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:
A two-day specialist course that provides advanced knowledge and skills required to work with and engage users of violence to assist them in taking responsibility for their violence, and to work towards changing their behaviour and enhancing the safety of their family.
This course utilises several therapeutic approaches to equip participants with the tools required to establish the user’s willingness to change, confirm the user’s responsibilities, and work respectfully with the user to plan and monitor changes. This relationship creates the context for the intervention and is constructed within a framework that promotes user responsibility, accountability, self-agency, and direction toward change while maintaining a focus on the safety of others.
This course utilised the state-based risk assessment tools and has been developed in line with national competency CHCDFV007 Work with users of violence to effect change and CHCDFV009 Establish change promoting relationship with users of domestic and family violence.
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.
Group counselling has its own set of dilemmas for men that must be addressed by counsellors for it to be a successful therapeutic experience. Men usually attend group counselling because they have been mandated to do so by authorities or by significant others, usually in order to address abusive behaviour.
This one-day training, provides an overview of some of the core issues that almost all men’s-group facilitators face. These issues include how to motivate participants, develop a therapeutic relational process, how to create safety within the sessions, how to monitor the group process, how to monitor individual progress and how to intervene effectively.
This course utilises relevant state-based risk assessment and management frameworks and developed in line with national competency CHCDFV009 Establish Change promoting relationship with users of domestic and family violence.
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.
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