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.
Responding with Confidence, Compassion, and Compliance.
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:
Certification: Participants receive a certificate of completion, supporting continuing education and demonstrating commitment to addressing 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.
DART offers primary prevention programs in schools across education staff and students, that focus on addressing gendered violence and sexual violence by promoting healthy relationships and respect among students. These programs aim to educate students about the importance of consent, boundaries, and effective communication, as well as identifying the signs of abusive behaviour and being a positive upstander.
Through evidence-based, engaging workshops, discussions, and activities, DART helps education staff and students to understand the dynamics of family and sexual violence and empowers them to promote safety and respect in their schools and communities. By teaching students about the impact of violence and providing them with the tools to build positive, non-violent relationships, DART works to prevent future instances of abuse and create safer, more supportive school environments.
DART’s workshops support the Minister for Education and Department of Education in facilitating the “Standing Together Against Violence, 10 Actions”, specifically:
a. Action 5 – Provide training support for school staff.
b. Action 9 – Create a community conversation about violence in schools and online.
Our workshops align with DART’s Violence Prevention Education national best practice principles.
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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.
Identify and Respond to Risk Masterclass 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 a Safety Action Meeting.
Understanding Workplace Trauma and Self-Care Strategies is a half-day interactive workshop.
This workshop helps participants to understand the body’s stress responses when exposed to high-risk cases. Participants will also identify roles and responsibilities for their well-being as well as how to support colleagues.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice self-care techniques within the workshop and to develop their own personalised self-care action plan.
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If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 000.
For support in Western Australia, please contact:
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
24/7 emergency assistance, child protection, crisis support.
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.
If you need support, please contact one of the services above.
