About the Course
The Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training provides practitioners with a strong, skills-based foundation for domestic abuse–informed practice. Across four comprehensive days, participants explore the essential practice areas of Assessment, Interviewing, Documentation, and Case Planning, building confidence to apply the Model in real-world work with families. This training supports professionals to strengthen risk assessment, enhance partnerships with survivors, and improve interventions with perpetrators—always keeping the safety and wellbeing of children at the centre of practice.
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’ behaviour patterns
Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence
Intervening with perpetrators
Understanding how domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance misuse, mental ill-health and other issues.
What You’ll Learn:
Strengthen partnerships with survivors to enhance safety and stability.
Map perpetrators’ behaviours to improve intervention and risk assessment.
Understand the impact of family and domestic violence on children and family functioning.
Improve documentation practices to support decision-making.
Learning Activities & Practice Tools
Across the four days, practitioners will:
Use Safe & Together™ tools, including the Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool, to improve assessments of risk, child impact, survivor strengths, and case decisions
Practise interviewing survivors, perpetrators, and children through modelling, role plays, and video demonstrations
Strengthen domestic abuse–informed documentation through guided individual and group exercises
Review real or hypothetical cases and explore how the Model can be applied
Develop action plans to embed the Model into their daily practice and support broader organisational change
Assessment & Certification
Participants complete a pre-and post-test, along with a training evaluation
Those who attend all four days and complete the post-test will receive a Certificate of Completion (22 training hours)
Participants who score 80% or higher on the post-test will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together™ Model Certified Trainer
Who Should Attend
This training is ideal for:
Child protection workers
Family support workers
Practitioners in domestic and family violence, AOD, mental health, and community services
Case managers, counsellors, and team leaders working with families affected by domestic and family violence.
Format
Duration: 4 days (22 training hours)
Delivery: In-person or online
Includes: Practical activities, role plays, video demonstrations, case studies, documentation exercises and implementation planning. Training is structured around the four core practice areas: Assessment, Interviewing, Documentation and Case Planning.
Your Instructor
Sandy Rawson
Sandy Rawson is a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, Director, and trainer who has spent more than 20 years working alongside children, young people, families, and communities across regional and remote NSW. Her training is shaped by deep clinical experience and a genuine commitment to building the confidence, insight, and practical skills of workers, caseworkers, practitioners, and professionals across the human services sector. Sandy brings extensive expertise in trauma, family violence, child safety, behaviour support, and healing through connection, and is known for delivering training that is engaging, reflective, evidence-based, and highly relevant to the realities of frontline work.
Bring this training to your workplace
Rawson Psychologists and Consultants will travel to deliver in house Core Training aimed at practitioners working with children in family violence including Psychology, Social Work, Case Work, Support Work, Education, Early Childhood, Health, Legal, Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Get in touch to discuss today.
