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Concrete strategies. Meaningful tools. Real change. The Safe & Together Institute provides domestic abuse–informed training and consulting to improve the safety and well-being of families.
System fragmentation remains one of the biggest barriers to effective domestic & family violence responses. In this blog, Jackie Wruck, Asia Pacific Regional Manager at Safe & Together Institute, explores how shared frameworks can strengthen system alignment.
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5 days to go: Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference (17–19 Mar). Practical, behavior-based learning for the everyday decisions—documentation, safety planning, cross-system work—plus in-person or virtual access. Register: tinyurl.com/bdhvpj7h
Safe practice isn’t about blaming mothers.
It’s about naming perpetrator choices.
He chose coercive control.
Children experienced the harm.
After 20 years of the Safe & Together Model, this reflection explores what ethical & child-centred practice really requires.
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AI can generate answers in seconds.
Child protection decisions require context, accountability, and safeguards.
Dr. LaSharia Turner & Dr. Helen Fischle join us to explore ethical, human-centred AI in frontline practice.
New episode: tinyurl.com/3zdtk66k
Women’s History Month honors the women who challenged systems—and those still leading change. Their leadership drives safer, more equitable responses to domestic abuse. #WomensHistoryMonth
Live Remote Core Training – Europe: 3, 4, 10 & 11 Mar 2026. Build pattern-based practice with tools like PPMT, strengthen interviewing + documentation, apply to real cases, and leave with an implementation action plan. Register: tinyurl.com/mkrnvseh
As Black History Month ends, we’re reflecting on how systems recognize survivor strengths. Research shows many survivors actively protect their children under immense constraints. Worth reading. safeandtogetherinstitute.com/reports-case...
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When systems feel unstable, survivors recalibrate safety. Perpetrators may use that uncertainty as another tactic of control.
Leah Vejzovic on what practitioners can control: safeandtogetherinstitute.com/blog/when-sy...
3 weeks to go: 2026 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference (17–19 Mar, Sydney + virtual). Cross-sector sessions on child safety, supporting protective parents, and system responses to coercive control—plus Safe & Together’s 20th anniversary keynote. tinyurl.com/bdhvpj7h
Bruises drive diagnosis. But what about chronic stress with no visible mark?
From interference with care to emerging epigenetics research, this episode reframes child maltreatment as a multigenerational public health issue.
New Partnered with a Survivor: tinyurl.com/38atssvd
Family courts need clarity, not narratives. The PPMT maps coercive control as parenting harm—showing child impact, survivor protection, and systems abuse for defensible decisions. tinyurl.com/5xvywh4v
5 children. Child protection proceedings. Real risk of separation.
18 months later, they remained safely together.
The shift?
Naming perpetrator behaviour.
Stopping implicit mother-blaming.
Partnering with survivor strengths.
Nic Douglas reflects on what changed in practice: tinyurl.com/4ar8a9xm
Our 2026 European Conference closed with a shared commitment: move beyond awareness of coercive control and embed behavioural analysis into governance, supervision, and judicial reasoning. The future of domestic abuse–informed systems depends on leadership willing to make that shift.
5 days to go! The 2026 European Coercive Control & Children Conference (10–11 Feb, virtual) tackles implementation gaps: children’s experiences, risk assessment, working with perpetrators as parents, and supporting survivor parents. Register: tinyurl.com/4mkz5tjn
Black History Month: For domestic abuse practitioners, the narratives we use can reduce harm—or reinforce inequity. This blog reframes “serial victim” thinking, highlights survivor protective efforts, and challenges “failure to protect” responses with disproportionate impacts. tinyurl.com/3u4zd77s
Strong practice starts with strong foundations.
Safe & Together’s four-day Core Training provides a skills-based foundation for domestic abuse–informed practice, focused on assessment, interviewing, documentation, and case planning.
Learn more:
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Systems meant to protect families can become tools of coercive control.
Season 7 Episode 3 of Partnered with a Survivor explores how systems misread harm, weaponize process, and what professionals must change to center survivor safety and accountability.
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Domestic abuse perpetrators often weaponize substance use and mental health—so single-lens responses fall short.
Our Intersections course offers a practical framework for addressing complexity while keeping child safety and accountability central.
Explore the library: tinyurl.com/48vzkvnu
Assessing harm requires more than incident-based thinking.
Our Multiple Pathways to Harm course provides a framework for understanding how perpetrator behaviors affect child safety and family functioning across multiple domains.
Explore our full library:
safeandtogetherinstitute.com/online-courses
Childhood exposure to domestic violence is the most common form of maltreatment.
In this episode, Professor Daryl Higgins shares findings from a study of 8,500 Australians—showing long-term health outcomes, gendered impacts, and why domestic abuse–informed systems matter.
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What if healing was the method, not the afterthought?
Season 7 Episode 1 of Partnered with a Survivor explores love, accountability, and transformative justice with Nneka MacGregor.
Listen now: tinyurl.com/2p7aaavc
#TransformativeJustice #Accountability #Prevention
A new year is a chance to strengthen supervision.
The Supervisors & Managers Training Bundle supports supervisors and managers across systems in guiding domestic abuse-informed, perpetrator pattern-based practice, with clear relevance for child protection work.
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What does accountability with men look like without shame or silence?
S6E22 of Partnered with a Survivor features Kenneth Braswell on fear, fatherhood, and change that keeps families safe.
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Child sexual abuse is often missed because it doesn’t look like what systems expect. When harm is disguised as care, discipline, or authority, perpetrators remain hidden.
This blog explores how pattern-based practice helps us name harm and protect children.
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Join us next week for Ask the Expert webinars with Safe & Together Institute Regional Managers.
Each session offers a practical introduction to the Safe & Together Model plus live Q&A on domestic abuse–informed practice.
Learn more and register:
safeandtogetherinstitute.com/events
David reflects on 40 years of practice in S6E23 of Partnered with a Survivor—exploring vocation, accountability, and what it means to build safer systems without minimizing harm.
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A strong year starts when you take charge of your professional practice.
Safe & Together: An Introduction to the Model supports child safety by partnering with survivors and addressing perpetrator behavior as parenting behavior.
Explore our full online library:
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New report: Westchester County, NY shows how the Safe & Together Model™ drives real system-level change in child welfare responses to domestic violence, improving practice alignment, accountability, and safety for children and families.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mhpbrrx8
Survivors aren’t “failing to protect”—they’re protecting in the face of danger.
It’s time to recognize their strengths and shift how systems respond.
Read our research briefing: tinyurl.com/bdbvy9cz
#SurvivorStrengths #SafeAndTogether