No to Violence provides a range of training and professional development to a variety of audiences, from practitioners of differing experience levels to corporate leadership and human resources. For more information about how No to Violence can support you or your organisation, please contact: training@ntv.org.au.
Training team
Programs are delivered by experienced professionals with extensive experience in working with men who use violence and in the family violence and social work fields. Meet the NTV training practitioner team.
Member discount
Members receive a 15 per cent discount for No to Violence delivered training programs (with exception of Graduate Certificate run through Swinburne).
Training Calendar
June
To be announced after government restrictions are lifted.
July
To be announced after government restrictions are lifted.
August
To be announced after government restrictions are lifted.
Information about training and professional development
Graduate Certificate in Client Assessment and Case Management (Male Family Violence)
Swinburne University of Technology (RTO Code 3059)
The Graduate Certificate in Client Assessment and Case Management is designed for practitioners who currently work in or wish to work directly with men using family violence. This course is providing a professional learning experience at a Graduate Certificate level and incorporates a number of learning experiences and observational opportunities. The course provides the foundations of men’s work in the family violence sector and scaffold professional practice from frameworks and evidence based theories that support the behavioural change journey. The course will support students to:
- Undertake Client Assessment and intake
- Understand and use the principles and practices of case management when working with men using family violence
- Cofacilitate groupwork programs (men’s behaviour change programs) and work directly with men who use family violence to support shifts towards behavioural change.
What will be covered?
- Theoretical and practice frameworks
- Case management principles and practices
- Client Assessment in the organisational context
- Unpacking accountability and change from intake and assessment
- Dialogue skills to support engaging with men who use family violence to support his decision towards the change journey and his responsibility for family safety
- Group work theory and dynamics
There are a number of assessment tasks involved as well as a requirement to complete a set of observational experiential tasks.
Who is this training for?
- Social workers and counsellors working directly with men in corrective services, child protection services, men’s behaviour change programs, men’s case management programs, court programs and specialist family violence policing.
- Alcohol and other drug counsellors who would like to add this as a specialty in their work
- Private practitioners, family law mediators and dispute resolution practitioners and legal staff working in the family violence area.
How is it delivered?
- The course is undertaken through a series of one day direct delivery (online or face to face lectures)
- Online course assessments and resources available
- Practice related tasks and opportunities add experiential value to the coursework
Applications for our February 2020 intake are now closed. You can apply for our July/August 2020 intake via Swinburne University’s website.
Introduction to working with men using family violence
The ‘Introduction to working with men using family violence’ training is a foundational experience for professionals to learn the ways in which men’s family violence is defined and understood. Engaging men who use family violence in all human service work is critical to linking this high-risk client group to specialist services like the Men’s Referral Service and referral pathways that support the behavioural change process.
What will be covered?
- Further development of practitioner skills and their confidence in engaging men in the collaborative conversation about their use of abuse and violence.
- Contemporary understanding of coercive control.
- Pragmatic tools to engage and invite men using family violence to begin an important journey of change.
Who is this training for?
- Social workers and counsellors working directly with men in corrective services, child protection services, men’s behaviour change programs, court programs and specialist family violence policing.
- Alcohol and other drug counsellors
- Community health and mental health practitioners
- Private practitioners, family law mediators and dispute resolution practitioners and legal staff working in the family violence area.
How is this delivered?
- One day face to face training
- Webinar series including online reflection discussions
Introduction to working with LGBTQI+ people using family violence
No to Violence has worked with Thorne Harbour Health, a leading LGBTQI+ health organisation, to offer a unique and dynamic training experience in direct practice with LGBTQI+ people using family violence. Family violence is a complex set of dynamics that in the context of queer relationships involve power dynamics that have a range of unique ‘ingredients’ that have harmful impacts on affected family members (including children and young people).
What will be covered?
- Explore the drivers of power in the LGBTQI+ context through examining perpetrator patterns of coercive control.
- Further develop practitioner skill and confidence in engaging people in the collaborative conversation about their use of abuse and violence
- Developing a professional understanding of the individual’s pattern of coercive control empowers the clinician to then undertake FV screening, immediate risk assessment and ensure appropriate referrals are made to the specialist family violence service system.
Who is this training for?
- Social workers and counsellors working directly with men in corrective services, child protection services, men’s behaviour change programs, court programs and specialist family violence policing.
- Alcohol and other drug counsellors
- Community health and mental health practitioners
- Private practitioners, family law mediators and dispute resolution practitioners and legal staff working in the family violence area.
How is this delivered?
- One day face to face training
- One two hour webinar including online reflection discussions
Everyday conversations
No To Violence ‘Everyday conversations’ training consists of two key elements focused on the prevention of family violence and violence against women: gendered drivers associated with men’s violence and bystander interventions. The training is delivered using respectful and non-shaming learning approaches to encourage participants to explore and develop insight into the impacts of harm on individuals, workplaces and communities. Our training practitioners also connect people affected by or perpetrating family violence to appropriate and supportive professional support services.
What will be covered?
- Foundational understandings of the gendered drivers associated with men’s violence against women and how these drivers underpin violence supportive attitudes, beliefs and actions.
- Practical skills for bystander actions in everyday conversations that help to interrupt negative attitudes and encourage pivoting to positive nonviolent and non-blaming perspectives about family violence.
Who is the training for?
- Corporate leadership teams
- Human resources (HR) staff in corporate, government and non-government agencies and community groups.
How is this delivered?
- Three-hour face to face training
- Two webinar series, including online reflection discussions
Advanced practice Series
No to Violence will be bringing an Advanced Practice Series that provides opportunities for the senior clinical practitioner in training experiences at a forensic level. The Advanced Practice Series brings the best of specialists to the human service workforce to provide unique and pragmatically focused learning that will add significant value to secondary consults, the supervision environment and contribute to the paramount need to reduce harm to women and children impacted by high risk family violence.
What will be covered?
- Advanced and comprehensive risk assessment, risk analysis and court reporting
- Discussing non-fatal strangulation as a key risk indicator with men using family violence
- The link between suicidality and homicide – how do we engage with men in a complex conversation about dangerous thinking patterns?
- Compassion fatigue and professional Burnout
- Providing supervision in the behavioural change context – supporting practitioners in maintaining the gendered lens in the cofacilitation dynamic.
Who is this training for?
- Senior alcohol and other drug, community health and mental health practitioners
- Social workers and counsellors working directly with men in corrective services, child protection services, men’s behaviour change programs, court programs and specialist family violence policing.
- Private practitioners, family law mediators and dispute resolution practitioners and legal staff working in the family violence area.
How is it delivered?
- Three-hour face to face training
- One 2 hour webinar including online reflection discussion
Please email training@ntv.org.au for further information, quotation or discussion of your organisational training needs.
