Tag: Safe and Together

The Safe & Together Model is an internationally recognised suite of tools and interventions designed to help social workers and other key professionals to engage with families experiencing domestic abuse in a child-centred, strengths-based way. It provides a perpetrator pattern, child-centred, survivor strengths-based approach to working with domestic abuse.

Across Scotland the model is being widely adopted into practice by local authorities and other organisations to improve outcomes and safety for survivors impacted by domestic abuse, usually women and children.  This short session will provide a brief overview of the foundational concepts of the model.

 

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson, SWA National Training Coordinator.

Judy has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011 and also worked with the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff.  Judy regularly provides training and consultancy to a wide range of multi agency statutory and voluntary bodies including the COPFS, Police Scotland, Social Work, Law Society Scotland, Criminal Justice Workers, Heath, Housing and Violence Against Women & Girls Partnerships etc.  Judy has a wealth of experience informing her practice and a burning passion for working to end domestic abuse and violence against women in all its forms.

We can also offer tailor made, bespoke support with training needs analysis, training, policies and procedures and implementing new legislation. We are happy to build a package specifically relevant to your organisation and the needs of your team, building on the work of our domestic abuse specialist trainers across the country.  We are happy to deliver both virtually and face to face, and can accommodate any number of learners. Our training and inputs are fully interactive, engaging and will support your team with practical application of their learning journey with us. Please contact judy.ferguson@womensaid.scot Scottish Women’s Aid’s National Training Co-ordinator to discuss your requirements.

Once the event is fully booked you can add your name to a waiting list here.

Time: 09:15 – 13:00 on both days

This course delivered over two half days explores the Safe and Together model being adopted across various authorities in Scotland and worldwide. The model provides a framework for partnering with domestic abuse survivors and intervening with domestic abuse perpetrators in order to enhance the safety and well-being of children.

The Overview Day will provide an overview of the framework which seeks to improve competencies and cross system collaboration related to the intersection of domestic abuse and child welfare. Although the Safe & Together model was developed to help child welfare systems become domestic violence-informed, the audience for this work is much larger. It’s for anyone who is interested in the intersection of domestic abuse and children and improving the safety and wellbeing of anyone impacted by domestic abuse.

Aims:

• Understand the key principles and practice approaches of Safe & Together
• Gain increased understanding of methods for identifying foundational sources of risk for survivors and children experiencing domestic abuse
• Explore effective and efficient ways to promote the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children in a family impacted by a domestic abuse perpetrator.
• Understand how adopting Safe & Together principles can improve outcomes for children and families by increasing their capacity to intervene with perpetrators, particularly as it relates to the safety and wellbeing of children.

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011, initially as the Chair of South Lanarkshire Women’s Aid, prior to spending 9 years with East Ayrshire Women’s Aid where she was responsible for the East Ayrshire Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnership Learning and Development Programmes and the lead trainer in East Ayrshire HSCP for all GBV training.

Recently Judy has become a Safe & Together Certified Trainer and was part of the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff, alongside being part of the Scottish Women’s Aid expert Coercive Control training team supporting the wider roll out of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act (DASA) 2018.

Judy previously coordinated and delivered the CEDAR programme and works widely across a range of settings training and awareness raising and is passionate about improving the understanding of and response to women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Time: 09:15 – 13:00 on both days

This course delivered over two half days explores the Safe and Together model being adopted across various authorities in Scotland and worldwide. The model provides a framework for partnering with domestic abuse survivors and intervening with domestic abuse perpetrators in order to enhance the safety and well-being of children.

The Overview Day will provide an overview of the framework which seeks to improve competencies and cross system collaboration related to the intersection of domestic abuse and child welfare. Although the Safe & Together model was developed to help child welfare systems become domestic violence-informed, the audience for this work is much larger. It’s for anyone who is interested in the intersection of domestic abuse and children and improving the safety and wellbeing of anyone impacted by domestic abuse.

Aims:

• Understand the key principles and practice approaches of Safe & Together
• Gain increased understanding of methods for identifying foundational sources of risk for survivors and children experiencing domestic abuse
• Explore effective and efficient ways to promote the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children in a family impacted by a domestic abuse perpetrator.
• Understand how adopting Safe & Together principles can improve outcomes for children and families by increasing their capacity to intervene with perpetrators, particularly as it relates to the safety and wellbeing of children.

Facilitator: Judy Ferguson has worked with Women’s Aid since 2011, initially as the Chair of South Lanarkshire Women’s Aid, prior to spending 9 years with East Ayrshire Women’s Aid where she was responsible for the East Ayrshire Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnership Learning and Development Programmes and the lead trainer in East Ayrshire HSCP for all GBV training.

Recently Judy has become a Safe & Together Certified Trainer and was part of the Scotland SafeLives training team delivering the DA Matters Training Programme to 14,000 Police Scotland staff, alongside being part of the Scottish Women’s Aid expert Coercive Control training team supporting the wider roll out of the new Domestic Abuse Scotland Act (DASA) 2018.

Judy previously coordinated and delivered the CEDAR programme and works widely across a range of settings training and awareness raising and is passionate about improving the understanding of and response to women and children experiencing domestic abuse.