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With the rapidly-changing family violence sector and new legislation‚ it’s never been a better time to learn about case notes or to have a refresher. In this full-day training, you will learn best practices for the structure, style and language of case notes, and develop your knowledge about how to respond to subpoenas, appearing as a witness in court, privacy and legal issues.

This nationally accredited training is designed to build the understanding, knowledge and skills required to identify and respond to the needs of clients who may be experiencing domestic and family violence. Build your skills and confidence to identify and respond to family violence during professional contact with clients.
RTO number 22729

If you work in family violence, you need to understand how perpetrators are using technology, and how to support victim survivors who are experiencing tech-facilitated abuse. Based on current research, information and risk assessment protocols, this one-day training will help you increase your practice awareness, skills and client safety.

Fast Track will help you advance your career by building your leadership and management skills. 

This program is for professionals with experience in the Victorian specialist family violence sector, who are looking to move into a leadership role or managers and senior workers in Victorian specialist family violence services (Tier 1) who are new to their roles and/or want to build their leadership and management capability.

Fast Track intensive leadership program will help you advance your career by building your skills and confidence in leadership and management roles. 

Lead and Adapt is immersive professional development program for executive and senior leaders in Victoria working to end or respond to family, gender-based and sexual violence.

This training is tailored for specialist family violence victim-survivor practitioners with comprehensive MARAM responsibilities.

This course will be delivered interactively as a one half-day virtual session.

This training is suitable for all professionals prescribed under MARAM in Victoria who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service. This training focuses on working with adults using family violence.

The ‘MARAM Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Management Training – adapted for the legal assistance sector’ is primarily for community service professionals who work in the legal assistance sector across the integrated family violence service system. 

This two-day training is suitable for new family violence specialists and/or those who have not previously completed specialist CRAF training.

This course will be delivered interactively as four x three hour in-person sessions over two days.

This training is suitable for new family violence specialists and/or those who have not previously completed specialist CRAF training.

This course will be delivered interactively as four x three hour virtual sessions over two days. 

 

This interactive one-day training is designed to advance practitioners’ understanding and application of strategies and tools to build organisational support and commitment for social change addressing the drivers of family and gender-based violence, and proactively plan for and manage institutional resistance to this change.

Safe and Equal’s Prevention in Practice training supports practitioners at any stage of their careers to strengthen their shared understanding, connect with other practitioners and bolster their professional toolkits with the resources, tools and frameworks to mobilise communities and workplaces for change. This course is delivered online in four x 2.5-hour sessions over two days. 

Our eLearn provides you with an evidence-based understanding of what drives violence against women, and the actions we can all take to prevent violence from occurring.

This three-hour virtual interactive training provides foundational knowledge in understanding family violence and responding to disclosures of family violence. It prepares participants to recognise indicators of family violence, ask questions and provide a safe, simple and sensitive response to a disclosure from an adult victim survivor experiencing family violence.

Gain the foundational knowledge of family violence to support you in your work. Understand the key considerations for responding to disclosures of family violence within prevention programs to support you in your work. 

This three-hour virtual interactive training will prepare you to recognise indicators of family violence, skills to provide a safe, simple and sensitive response to a disclosure from an adult experiencing family violence.

By learning how to be an active bystander through Small Steps: Bystander Action for Equality, you can safely and effectively challenge sexist attitudes in your personal and professional life. This 4-hour virtual course is designed for workplaces and individuals.  

In this two day intensive course, you will learn what makes family violence different from other traumatic experiences, and how you can integrate a trauma-informed framework into your practice. We will also cover ways to prevent vicarious trauma and strategies for you and your employer to support your wellbeing.

Key reasons many people choose to work in primary prevention are to build momentum and create change. We are passionate about mobilising people and community to transform power structures and attitudes that drive gender-based violence.

Key reasons many people choose to work in primary prevention are to build momentum and create change. We are passionate about mobilising people and community to transform power structures and attitudes that drive gender-based violence.

This free online learning package will provide you with foundational knowledge about preventing and responding to family violence and violence against women.