This one-day training is suitable for allied health professionals whose purpose of intervention is linked to family violence but not directly focused on family violence. For example, for professionals who may be engaging with people in crises, or at high risk of experiencing family violence.
Working Therapeutically with children affected by FDV is a two-day tertiary course. This course provides the advanced knowledge and skills for staff to undertake therapeutic work with children including, comprehensive risk assessment where children are at risk due to FDV. Participants will also learn how to collaboratively safety plan and manage risk inclusive of how to contribute to a Multi-Agency Case Management Meeting (MACM).
This course utilises current child development frameworks and has been developed in line with National Competency CHCDFV002 Provide Support to Children Affected by 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.
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.
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.
This half-day workshop is suitable for any professional who may identify family violence as occurring. You may engage with people on a one-off, episodic, or ongoing basis and you are in a position to identify or screen for family violence. This training focuses on working with victim-survivors.
Understanding emerging abusive behaviours in the home is crucial in providing holistic support to the whole of the family whilst ensuring safety and well-being and providing a platform to interrupt early abusive behaviours.
AVITH training is a one-day intensive training that explores gaps and challenges in this space, defining child and adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse, understanding its unique characteristics, how trauma affects the brain in child development, assessing risk factors, working with adolescents demonstrating AVITH, utilising the Gillick principle in effective intervention and safety planning.
This course utilises theoretical underpinnings and several case studies to explore how best to recognise and respond to AVITH.
Children and young people can be both directly and indirectly affected by family violence. It’s important to recognise children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right, not extensions of their parents, or ‘secondary victims’ of family violence.
Working with pre-teens to teenagers affected by trauma is a one-day interactive workshop. This workshop provides the knowledge and skills required to work with and engage with pre-teens to teenagers through the practical application of music and drama therapy.
Trauma-informed practice through music and drama therapy is a way of creating a safe and respectful relational process whilst supporting the re-establishment of safety, control, and attachment.
This half day workshop aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively identify and screen for individuals who may be engaging in violent behaviours, with a focus on improving prevention efforts, ensuring safety, and providing appropriate support and referrals.
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