CORE Safe & Together Training

January 14 – 17, 8 AM – 5 PM

In-Person

CORE is a four-day training designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic abuse-informed practice. Each day will provide key skills and learnings for participants to implement the Safe & Together Model into their practice.

Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas:

Day 1 – Assessment

Day 2 – Interviewing

Day 3 – Documentation

Day 4 – Case Planning

CORE Training explores the importance of:

• Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning.
• Gathering a fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns.
• Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence.
• Intervening with perpetrators.
• Understanding how domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health.

Participants of the CORE Training will:

• Learn to use Safe & Together’s practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm, 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 abuse-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
• Discuss their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be utilized in similar cases in the future.

Also included in CORE Training:

• Participants will develop Action Plans to support implementation of the Model into their day-to-day practice and to influence their communities and family service systems to become more domestic abuse-informed.
• Participants will complete a pre-and post-test to reflect on their progress in learning and give a training evaluation.
• Participants who attend all four days and take the post-test will receive a certificate of completion for their 22 training hours.
• Participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the CORE Training post-test will meet one of the prerequisites for becoming a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.

Who is CORE Training for?

• Child Welfare Practitioners
• Domestic Violence Advocates
• Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health and other community service providers
• Batterer Intervention or Men’s Behavior Change staff
• Court and Legal Personnel
• Law Enforcement
• Health and Home Visitors
• Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence

Course Offering:

Tuesday, January 14, Wednesday, January 15, Thursday, January 16, & Frida,y January 17

8 AM – 5 PM, daily

Snacks & Refreshments are provided; lunch is not included – there is 1 hour for lunch and many wonderful places to eat within walking distance of the training venue. You are also welcome to bring lunch and eat it in the training venue.

Course Trainer:

Kathryn Boyce, Project Coordinator with PATHS, is certified in instructing the Safe & Together model and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to facilitate this course.

Register Here

For more information, email: admin@commonsensemediation.ca