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.
A 3 hour workshop for partner support workers and practitioners in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP) and other perpetrator interventions
This workshop builds the specific skills required for partner contact and victim survivor advocacy within perpetrator intervention practice. Partner contact is a distinct role and competency set, separate from both risk assessment and facilitation, and is central to every perpetrator intervention’s ability to keep victim survivors safe, informed and supported.
Participants will explore what trauma-informed, non-judgemental advocacy looks like in practice, including how to respect a victim survivor’s autonomy without imposing narratives about their relationship or their choices. The workshop covers safety planning specific to the perpetrator intervention context, including for victim survivors who are still living with the person using violence, and how to recognise and respond when a victim survivor does not identify their experience as family and domestic violence or does not wish to be involved.
A key focus is safe contact protocols, including not leaving unsafe messages, working with the victim survivor on practical ways to reduce their risk, developing pre-planned scripts and pseudonyms for use when someone else answers the phone, and agreeing safe times and methods of contact. Participants will also explore coordination between partner support workers and intervention facilitators to safeguard victim survivor safety and manage risk.
The workshop covers how to explain the limitations of the intervention honestly, including the real possibility that violence and controlling behaviours may not stop, while supporting victim survivors to make informed decisions with accurate information about their rights, options and the intervention itself. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to deliver proactive, trauma-informed partner contact that respects victim survivor autonomy and strengthens safety planning.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience:Partner support workers and practitioners in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP) and other perpetrator interventions
A 3 hour workshop for practitioners working in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP)
Ideally co-designed and delivered in partnership with representative specialist services across CALD, LGBTIQA+, disability and aged care sectors
This workshop builds practitioners’ understanding of what it means for services to be genuinely inclusive and responsive to the full diversity of victim survivors and people who use violence, beyond Aboriginal cultural safety alone. Participants will explore practice considerations across culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTIQA+, disability, older person and remote or fly-in/fly-out contexts.
Participants will examine CALD-specific practice considerations, including language barriers, working with interpreters, and how migration-related circumstances and visa status can create additional risk factors and barriers to safety that practitioners need to understand and respond to.
The workshop covers LGBTIQA+ inclusive practice, including recognising and responding to male and non-heteronormative victim survivors, alongside disability responsive and neurodiverse inclusive practice that adapts engagement, risk assessment and support to individual communication and access needs.
Participants will also explore practical adaptations for older people and for people in remote or fly-in/fly-out locations, and why genuine co-design with representative specialist services and communities, rather than services designing in isolation, is central to getting this right. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to identify diversity-related barriers to safety and support, and adapt their practice to be genuinely inclusive across these cohorts.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP)
A 3 hour workshop for practitioners in family and domestic violence services
Developed and delivered by a cultural safety trainer
This workshop builds practitioners’ understanding of cultural safety for Aboriginal people as one of the core overarching principles of practice, distinct from general cultural awareness or cultural competence training. Participants will explore what genuine cultural safety requires in day-to-day practice with Aboriginal people, families and communities.
Participants will examine what it means for materials and resources for Aboriginal people to be Aboriginal-led in their design, and why genuine choice between an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation and a mainstream provider is a right, not a formality. The workshop also explores family and domestic violence perpetration through both its gendered drivers and the ongoing impacts of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, so practitioners can hold both truths at once.
The session covers intergenerational trauma and the Stolen Generations, and their relationship to both family and domestic violence perpetration and to healing, alongside what it means to genuinely work alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, including embedding co-design practice rather than consulting after decisions have already been made.
Participants will also be introduced to Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles as they apply to collecting and sharing data about Aboriginal people and communities. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to distinguish cultural safety from cultural awareness in their own practice, and apply its principles to service design, partnership and data practices.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
A 3 hour introduction to training for practitioners working with people who use family and domestic violence
This introductory workshop builds practitioners’ understanding of the practical mechanics of case management, referral and multi-agency collaboration in perpetrator-focused practice, from building the right partnerships through to producing accurate, defensible case records.
Participants will explore what it takes to build formal partnerships with police, courts, justice, health and specialist services, and the difference between a simple hand-off and genuine warm referral practice, where practitioners follow up actively to make sure a person using violence is actually connected to and engaged with the service they have been referred to.
The workshop covers participation in multi-agency case management for high-risk and high harm perpetrators, and what this coordinated role requires of practitioners in practice. Participants will also build their understanding of the intervention continuum, from brief intervention through to behaviour change, healing and fathering programs, so referrals are matched to the right level and type of intervention rather than made by default.
A key focus is report writing, including completion, non-completion and progress reports that accurately capture risk, behaviour change and the impacts of that behaviour on victim survivors. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to build and sustain multi-agency partnerships, make and follow through on warm referrals, participate confidently in coordinated case management, and produce reports that support safety and accountability.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working with people who use family and domestic violence within coordinated, multi-agency responses
A half day interactive workshop for practitioners in specialist family and domestic violence services
This half-day workshop helps participants understand the body’s stress responses when exposed to high risk and high-harm cases, and why the specialist family and domestic violence workforce, the bedrock of the family and domestic violence system, is particularly susceptible to vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout.
Participants will explore how the gendered nature of this work means many practitioners bring their own lived experience of violence to the role, and how this can shape the impact of the work on their health, safety and wellbeing, alongside the additional cultural load carried by Aboriginal practitioners and workers from culturally diverse communities.
Participants will identify their own roles and responsibilities for maintaining their wellbeing, as well as how to recognise signs of struggle in colleagues and support one another, within a workplace culture of hope, resilience and continuous improvement. The workshop covers the role of regular supervision, reflective practice and debriefing in sustaining a healthy workforce, and how everyday work with victim survivors can also connect practitioners to broader advocacy and social change.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice self-care techniques within the workshop, understand the workplace supports available to them, including access to an Employee Assistance Program, family and domestic violence leave entitlements and confidential support strategies, and develop their own personalised self-care action plan to sustain them in this work over the long term
Duration: Half day
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
A 3 hour workshop for practitioners in family and domestic violence services
This workshop builds practitioners’ understanding of how power, privilege and oppression shape victim survivors’ experiences of family and domestic violence, and what it takes to make specialist services genuinely inclusive, equitable and accessible to all.
Participants will explore how privilege and oppression, including racism, ableism and classism, can become embedded in services over time, often without anyone noticing, and why reflecting on our own organisation’s role is the first step to change. The workshop covers the legal and ethical responsibilities of specialist services under the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 WA, including obligations to eliminate discrimination, and what a whole-of-organisation approach to equity and inclusion looks like across service design, eligibility and practice.
A central focus is intersectionality, understanding how gender intersects with other forms of inequality and oppression to create unique experiences of violence and unique barriers to safety, and practical ways to respond, including partnerships with equality-led organisations and reflective practice on power dynamics in service delivery. The workshop also covers inclusive and accessible communication, including working with professional and accredited interpreters, and providing Auslan interpreters or other communication support for people with disabilities.
The session closes with a look at culturally responsive practice across diverse backgrounds and experiences, including involving clients from diverse backgrounds in service design and ensuring practitioners have ongoing access to cultural safety and responsiveness training. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to apply an intersectional, culturally safe and accessible lens to their everyday practice.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
A 3 hour workshop for practitioners in family and domestic violence services
This workshop explores advocacy as a core function of specialist family and domestic violence practice, both for individual victim survivors and for the systems around them.
Participants will examine the specialist family and domestic violence service’s distinct position within the broader response system, as the one program partner whose sole objective is the safety and wellbeing of the victim survivor. The workshop covers how practitioners travel alongside victim survivors to observe the strengths and weaknesses of the response they receive, including unintended effects that can arise when multiple services and agencies are involved.
A key focus is what individual advocacy looks like in day-to-day practice, and when and how to use advocacy approaches when collaborative responses are not improving safety and wellbeing outcomes, or when other services and systems are not fulfilling their responsibilities. The workshop then moves to systemic advocacy, exploring how the experiences of individual victim survivors reveal broader systemic barriers to safety, health and wellbeing, and how practitioners and services can identify, raise and act on these barriers, including influencing public policy and resource allocation within the wider system.
By the end of the workshop, participants will understand the difference between individual and systemic advocacy, be able to recognise when advocacy is needed, and know how to raise systemic issues in ways that contribute to long-term improvements in the family and domestic violence response system.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
A 3 hour workshop for practitioners in family and domestic violence services
Developed and delivered by a cultural safety trainer
This workshop explores what genuine multi-agency collaboration looks like in family and domestic violence practice, and why no single service can meet all of a victim survivor’s safety, health and wellbeing needs alone.
Participants will examine the evidence base for coordinated, multi-agency and multi disciplinary responses, and map the wide range of partner services victim survivors may need to be connected with, including police, legal and court support, child protection, health, mental health and alcohol and other drug services, housing and homelessness services, disability support, sexual assault support services and youth services. The workshop covers the practical mechanics of collaboration, including referral pathways, shared case management, co-location responses, secondary consultations, information sharing and participation in interagency and Multi Agency Case Management (MACM) meetings.
A central focus is what effective collaboration actually requires in practice: building trust, respecting the roles and expertise of other professionals, drawing on specialist knowledge for diverse communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, and LGBTIQA+ communities, and recognising that supporting one another’s work is part of the job, not separate from it. Participants will also look at the specialist family and domestic violence service’s distinct role within a MACM response under the CRARMF, including taking a victim-survivor-centred lead role in case coordination, and how shared case management plans with clear roles and responsibilities can be documented and reviewed to keep outcomes on track.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to build and sustain effective service partnerships, contribute confidently to multi-agency case management, and identify referral pathways with both generalist and specialist providers.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
A 3 hour workshop for practitioners in family and domestic violence services
Developed and delivered by a cultural safety trainer
This workshop lays the groundwork for practitioners to understand and support Aboriginal self-determination as a foundation of safe, effective family and domestic violence practice. It recognises the unique knowledge, strengths and cultural perspectives that Aboriginal victim survivors, families and communities bring.
Participants will explore self-determination as an internationally and domestically recognised human right, and what it means in practice. This includes a systemic shift that transfers power, control, decision-making and resources to Aboriginal communities and their organisations, rather than services determining solutions on their behalf. The workshop situates the disproportionate impact of family violence on Aboriginal women, children, families and communities within its true context, including the ongoing legacy of colonisation, dispossession, the Stolen Generations and intergenerational trauma, while being explicit that family violence is not part of Aboriginal culture.
The session will also examine the different drivers of violence experienced by Aboriginal communities, and why Aboriginal-led, community-controlled responses are central to addressing them. Practitioners will consider their own service’s role, including where mainstream practice may unintentionally replicate colonising or discriminatory patterns, and how to build genuinely culturally safe responses aligned with Aboriginal leadership and goals. This includes supporting Aboriginal victim survivors’ right to choose between mainstream and Aboriginal services, and to maintain or restore connection to Country, culture, family and community.
Participants will leave with a clear understanding of practical enablers of trust and help-seeking for Aboriginal women, and how to strengthen referral pathways and partnerships with Aboriginal organisations to inform service design and coordinated responses.
Duration: 3 hours
Audience: Practitioners working in specialist family and domestic violence services
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1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732
National 24/7 sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling service.
Women’s Domestic Violence Helpline – 1800 007 339
24/7 crisis support, safe accommodation and referrals.
Men’s Domestic Violence Helpline – 1800 000 599
Support for men experiencing or using violence.
Crisis Care Helpline – 1800 199 008
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Lifeline – 13 11 14
24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention.
MensLine – 1300 789 978
Counselling for men with family, relationship or emotional concerns.
Kids Helpline – 1800 55 1800
24/7 counselling for young people aged 5–25.
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