Safe and Together Training to Combat Domestic Violence (Ep 21‪)‬ The Divorce Collective

The Safe & Together training and model has been implemented by agencies in Australia
already over the last about 7 years and the Federal Circuit Court and Family
Courts are now jumping on board.
 
Federal
Circuit Court and Family Court Judges will undergo family violence focussed
training. The safety of children and families is the highest priority for
these Courts and the new training initiative is welcomed one to provide
Judges, Registrars and Family Consultants an opportunity for training on the
issues of family violence and the impact on children.
 
The
delivery of the training will be from the Safe & Together Institute to
deliver training based on the world-renowned Safe & Together Model
developed by the expert, Mr David Mandel. That model focuses on the perpetrator
patterns of behaviour, survivor strengths and the safety and welfare of adult
and child victims. 
 
Sadly,
mothers are often held responsible for protecting their children and often
while they are likely to be at risk of harming themselves. The mother is the
one asked to do tasks to “act protectively” and either they are blamed for not
acting protectively or their fears are not taken seriously because they failed
to take actions.
 
The
Safe and Together Model developed by David Mandel aims to shift away from this
“failure to protect” response to one that works with all parties (children,
survivors and perpetrators) to ensure the well-being of children and their
safety.
 
Domestic
violence is by no means gender-neutral and the prevalence of violence, severity
of physical injury and level of coercion and control are far greater for women
than men. Just look at the media in the last few weeks where we had women
and children lose their lives as a direct result of domestic violence.
 
The
S&T Model aims to make systems more domestic-violence informed and
competent. It is child-centred keeping their safety and wellbeing at the
core of all work. It is survivor strengths-based and partners with the
non-offending parent to build her everyday efforts to keep herself and her
children safe. It is perpetrator patterned which focuses on understanding that
perpetrators of violence are responsible for the violence they commit and that
responsibility is not shared with the adult survivor.
 
Perpetrators
patterns of behaviours harm children through multiple pathways. It’s not only
about what the children saw or heard and it is this approach that is at the
very core of the nature of the harm to children. The training helps
understand really how that pattern of behaviour (like coercive control)
undermined the functioning of the family.
 
This
is not about man bashing or women’s rights, this is about human rights and
children’s rights. I will support any initiative that aims to protect our most
vulnerable members of our community, the children. The effect of domestic
violence, coercive control and generally non-respectful behaviours is life long
and action needs to be taken to stop the cycle. The only way we can work
towards that is by getting perpetrators to realise and understand how their
violence and coercive control impacts their children.  
 
Safe
& Together Institute are spot on when it says the reason for it is because
“Intervention with perpetrators should focus on their roles as parents and
assessment of how their behaviours harm children”.
 









































Let’s
change the conversation and change the ending for our children. 

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