CORE is a four-day training designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse-informed practice. Each day will provide key skills and learnings for participants to implement the Safe & Together Model into their practice. Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas:
CORE Training explores the importance of:
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.
This one-day training provides participants with an introduction to and overview of the Safe & Together™ Model. The training provides participants with information about creating a domestic abuse-informed child welfare system, the principles and components of the Safe & Together™ Model and information on the framework behind competency-building in child welfare around domestic violence.
Overview:
This 2-day, 10-point legal CPD unit explores the complexities of coercive control within legal frameworks, integrating a comprehensive examination of its dynamics, evidence, and the law’s evolving response. By exploring both the theoretical and practical aspects of coercive control, this unit emphasises evidence-based approaches, drawing upon cutting-edge research and real-world data to understand its impact on victims and communities. Co-designed with input from legal professionals, family violence experts, and survivor advocates, the curriculum reflects a commitment to lived experience as a vital source of insight and guidance.
Day 1 explores the various forms of coercive control, including psychological, emotional, financial, social, spiritual, cultural, reproductive, systemic, and physical abuse while unpacking the biases that can influence professional responses. Participants will examine how coercive control intersects with issues such as mental health, substance misuse, and technology-facilitated abuse. The session also covers key legal frameworks and challenges in representing victim-survivors, including an overview of relevant legislation, legal remedies, and case law.
Day 2 focuses on risk identification, disclosure management, and safety planning. It includes guidance on trauma-informed legal documentation, strategies to build trust and safety with clients, and practical tools for identifying and responding to risk. The training concludes with a focus on vicarious trauma and sustainable self-care practices for professionals working in this complex field.
Coming Soon
This three-day training program is designed to equip supervisors with a comprehensive understanding of Family, Domestic, and Sexual Violence (FDSV) and its significant impact on the supervision process. Grounded in clinical supervision principles and informed by best practices in family violence response across Australia, the training supports supervisors to create safe, reflective, and accountable spaces that prioritise staff wellbeing and effective service delivery. Participants will learn to embed trauma-informed, culturally safe, and person-centred approaches within supervision, enabling them to respond to the complex dynamics of FDSV in practice. The program also strengthens supervisors’ capacity to recognise signs of trauma, manage risk and safety disclosures, and support staff working with victim-survivors and individuals using violence. By linking supervision directly to effective family violence responses, this training ensures that supervisors can lead with clarity, compassion, and confidence in high-pressure environments while also maintaining ethical, legal, and relational integrity.
This course is currently with the ACA for endorsement as a recognised training course in supervision.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
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.
Stay informed about our latest news, training programs & events.
© 2025 DART Institute Australia. All rights reserved.
