About this Event
Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training
Tautoko Mai Sexual Harm Support
Training Days: 20, 21, 23 & 24 May 2024 - 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Petridish Shared Office and Space 8 Strafford Street, Dunedin, Otago 9016
Parking: There is no onsite parking.
Bond Street Parking is the closest (2 min walk). Or there are various parking options near the Octagon Reserve (10 mins walk).
A morning tea and light lunch will be provided.
Trainer Bios:
Helen Nijssen who is a current training Lead for Tautoko Mai has 20 years frontline experience in child protection for Oranga Tamariki. The last 12 years Helen spent specifically in the family violence arena as a family violence social worker under Oranga Tamariki. She has a prevention focus and worked as part of a multi-disciplinary Family Harm team connected to Whangaia Nga Pa Harakeke (WNPH) FSS model. She has been on a journey to work out what works for families when there are concerns for child safety and they are experiencing violence from a family member who has a parenting role.
In 2018 she attended the Safe and Together Conference in Melbourne, Australia and was amazed at how this model had everyday practical tools and language to articulate complexity that could easily fit with Aotearoa context. She completed her Core training in 2019 and is now a certified trainer of The Safe and Together Model.
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About Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training
Domestic violence-informed child welfare practice requires competencies in assessment, interviewing, documentation and case planning. Safe & Together Institute’s CORE Training offers four days of experiential classroom training covering each of these foundational skills.
- Day 1 is focused on Assessment
- Day 2 is focused on Interviewing
- Day 3 is focused on Documentation
- Day 4 is focused on Case Planning
CORE Training explores the importance of:
- Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning.
- Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators' behavior patterns.
- Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence.
- Intervening with perpetrators.
- How domestic violence intersects with complicating factors like substance abuse and mental health.
Participants of the CORE Training will:
- Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns, Multiple Pathways to Harm and Pivoting that can be implemented right away to improve assessment of risk, impact on children, survivor protective efforts and essential case decisions.
- Practice interviewing perpetrators, survivors and children through modeling, role play and videos.
- Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
- Be discussing their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.
Also included in CORE Training:
- Participants will develop their own Action Plans to implement the Model into their day-to-day practice, as well as begin to influence their communities and family service systems to become more domestic-violence informed.
- Participants will complete a pre- and posttest to reflect learning, as well as a training evaluation. Participants who attend all four days and take the posttest will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.
- A prerequisite to becoming a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer and/or Coach includes an 80% or higher on the CORE Training posttest.
Safe & Together Institute1-860-319-0966 (USA)safeandtogetherinstitute.com/contact
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Petridish Shared Office and Space, 8 Stafford Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
NZD 815.00
