OMFVP - TOGETHER IN PRACTICE
2026-02-03 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-06 10:00 - 13:00 UTC
Location: WODONGA
Part A: ‘Your role in the framework. Collaborative risk assessment and information sharing’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

OMFVP - TOGETHER IN PRACTICE
2026-02-10 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-13 10:00 - 13:00
LOCATION: WODONGA
Part B: ‘Shared Risk, shared responses. Risk management and safety planning’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

OMFVP - Together in Practice
2026-02-18 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-19 10:00 - 13:00
Location: WANGARATTA
Part A: ‘Your role in the framework. Collaborative risk assessment and information sharing’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

Navigating the NDIS online training - Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
2026-02-19 10:00 - 15:00
Course Overview
This workshop provides hands-on, online practical training for professionals working in the child and family sector who support NDIS participants or their carers.
It runs for four hours in total and is delivered in two separate two-hour sessions. You can choose to attend both sessions on the same day or spread them across two different days – whatever suits your schedule best
Learning Outcomes

An explanation of how the NDIS is designed to work, including the many assumptions built into it about families and children with a disability.
Clear explanation of the roles and responsibilities of child and family sector staff in working with families with disability.
Parental perspectives on the experience of caring for a child with disability.
Tips and techniques to help support vulnerable families as they navigate the NDIS, from access to review and appeal.
An introduction to the wide network of support and advocacy organisations around the NDIS.

These sessions offer insider knowledge about how decisions are made within the NDIS. You’ll gain valuable insights into how disability is defined, the types of evidence that impact decision-making, and the language that helps achieve the best outcomes.
We also provide practical templates and tools to support you in collecting information and clearly communicating the needs of children, parents, and carers to NDIS decision-makers.

Navigating the NDIS – Session one: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Navigating the NDIS – Session two: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

To register, follow the link below and select ‘NDIS’ in the program field.
REGISTER

Centre for Community Health - Facilitation: Lead Groups That Inspire and Engage
2026-02-24 09:30 - 2026-02-25 16:00
Overview
Led by facilitators with extensive experience, Facilitation: Lead Groups That Inspire and Engage provides you with evidence-based tools and techniques to make a significant impact in your facilitation.
Why choose Facilitation: Lead Groups That Inspire?
What You’ll Gain

Engage Participants: Create interactive, inclusive, and meaningful group experiences.
Facilitation Confidence: Learn practical techniques and observe expert facilitators in action.
Design & Plan: Develop content that aligns with adult learning principles
Hands-On Practice: Try new approaches in a supportive, safe environment.

Why It Matters:

Strengthen collaboration and communication in your teams or programs.
Foster respectful partnerships with participants.
Reinvigorate your sessions to make every group interaction count.

Perfect For: Health professionals, educators, administrators, and anyone leading groups or workshops.
Reflections from past participants

‘Hands-on practice was invaluable and immediately applicable to my work’

‘Fantastic two days. Very worthwhile for my work and really engaging.’

‘Putting facilitation into practice was invaluable.’

‘This workshop transformed how I approach group sessions—I now facilitate with confidence and equality.’

Duration
2 days
Dates
24 and 25 February 2026
Cost
$1,330.00
Time
9.30AM to 4.00PM each day
Delivery
In-person
Venue
The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville VIC
Contact
For further information or to enquire about tailoring a workshop to meet the needs of your organisation, please email us at training.ccch@rch.org.au

OMFVP - Together in Practice
2026-03-04 09:30 - 16:30
Location: BRIGHT

This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.

Part A: ‘ Your role in the framework. Collaborative risk assessment and information sharing’
More information and enrol here

2026 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference
2026-03-17 11:00 - 2026-03-19 16:00
2026 Asia Pacific Coercive Control & Children Conference is officially scheduled for 17–19 March 2026 at Roundhouse at the heart of the University of New South Wales’ (UNSW) campus in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney!
This three-day gathering will unite hundreds of practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and advocates from across the Asia Pacific region—creating unparalleled opportunities to build your domestic violence–informed practice and forge connections that will advance your work long after the conference ends.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Safe & Together Model—a framework that has revolutionised child protection for tens of thousands of professionals across more than a dozen countries and transformed how systems worldwide keep children safe with protective parents while effectively intervening with parents who choose violence.
Since its founding in April 2006, the Institute has grown from a small, locally focused initiative into a global leader in systems change. While much work remains, this event will be a moment to both reflect on the Model’s impact over the past two decades and look ahead to its future goals.
Whether in-person or virtually, join us in advancing child safety and family well-being at this groundbreaking gathering that will bring together leading practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and advocates to address one of the most pressing child protection issues of our time. This premier event will focus on innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and responding to coercive control in families, with particular emphasis on protecting children and supporting protective parents.
Presentations and workshops will highlight work in the following categories:
Domestic Violence–Informed Practice: This track will help you learn about practice that impacts child safety and well-being in the context of domestic violence, frameworks or practice models that are parallel or complementary to the Safe & Together value system, and/or practices or programs that grew out of implementation of the Safe & Together Model. Connect with innovative practitioners from across sectors who are pioneering new approaches and forming cross-system partnerships.
Indigenous-Led Approaches to Safety, Healing & Accountability with Safe & Together: Building on the findings of Whole of family approaches for addressing family violence: An Aboriginal lens on the Safe & Together Framework, this track will advance the conversation about how the Safe & Together Model can be respectfully adapted to align with Aboriginal worldviews, healing frameworks, and community priorities. Whether Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal, Pasifika, or Māori, this track centers the leadership, voices, and knowledge systems of First Nations peoples and communities who have long led efforts to keep families safe in the face of colonisation, systemic racism, and gendered violence. Join a powerful network of leaders, allies, and communities of practice working to decolonise child protection responses.
Family Law: Keeping Children Safe: Building on the launch of the Safe & Together Model course for independent children’s lawyers and the Institute’s ongoing collaboration with the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA), this track will focus on transforming how family law understands and responds to domestic violence—especially coercive control—as a parenting choice and a patterned behaviour with serious implications for child and adult safety. Establish relationships with legal professionals, child protection workers, and advocates who are transforming how the justice system responds to coercive control.
Health Responses to Domestic Violence: Embedding a Perpetrator Pattern–Based Approach: Building on our collaboration with the University of Melbourne and NSW Ministry of Health, this track will explore how the Safe & Together Model is reshaping the health response to domestic violence and where we go next. Health professionals and system leaders are invited to rethink the role of health services in responding to coercive control. This includes moving from fragmented, deficit-focused approaches to integrated trauma- and violence-informed responses grounded in clear behavioural analyses of harm. Network with health system leaders, clinicians, and researchers who are breaking down silos between health and social services.
And David Mandel, CEO and founder of the Safe & Together Institute, will be delivering a powerful keynote reflecting on two decades of global systems change. From its start in one small jurisdiction in one country to becoming an internationally recognised movement for improving responses to domestic violence and child safety, the Safe & Together Model has changed the way hundreds of thousands of professionals act, think, and collaborate, impacting millions of children and helping to keep them safe and together with their protective parents. This session will celebrate the collective achievements of the past 20 years—born from partnerships with practitioners, agencies, advocates, and survivors across more than a dozen countries. From research results to impacts on diverse sectors to a growing network of 500 Certified Trainers, David will share key milestones and results.
This keynote will not just be a retrospective. David will outline the future of the Institute, spotlighting the Institute’s growing commitment to local collaborations, digital transformation, and its continued thought leadership in areas like credible experts, men’s behaviour, trauma, and domestic violence perpetration. Whether you’ve been with the movement since its inception or are just discovering it, this keynote is a chance to align with a future where children’s safety, survivor partnership, and accountability for perpetrators as parents are not just values but realised changes and the benchmark for global best practice.
The convergence of the Safe & Together Model’s 20th anniversary with the urgent need for innovative responses to coercive control makes this a pivotal moment in family safety and well-being. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner, emerging leader, or system changemaker, this conference will equip you with cutting-edge knowledge, practical tools, and a powerful professional network to amplify your impact.
Secure your place in this transformational gathering and join colleagues from across the Asia Pacific region who are committed to keeping children safe and families together.
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Navigating the NDIS online training - Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
2026-03-19 10:00 - 15:00, 2026-04-23 10:00 - 15:00
Course Overview
This workshop provides hands-on, practical training for professionals working in the child and family sector who support NDIS participants or their carers.
It runs for four hours in total and is delivered in two separate two-hour sessions. You can choose to attend both sessions on the same day or spread them across two different days – whatever suits your schedule best
Learning Outcomes

An explanation of how the NDIS is designed to work, including the many assumptions built into it about families and children with a disability.
Clear explanation of the roles and responsibilities of child and family sector staff in working with families with disability.
Parental perspectives on the experience of caring for a child with disability.
Tips and techniques to help support vulnerable families as they navigate the NDIS, from access to review and appeal.
An introduction to the wide network of support and advocacy organisations around the NDIS.

These sessions offer insider knowledge about how decisions are made within the NDIS. You’ll gain valuable insights into how disability is defined, the types of evidence that impact decision-making, and the language that helps achieve the best outcomes.
We also provide practical templates and tools to support you in collecting information and clearly communicating the needs of children, parents, and carers to NDIS decision-makers.

Navigating the NDIS – Session one: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Navigating the NDIS – Session two: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

To register, follow the link below and select ‘NDIS’ in the program field.
REGISTER

SAFE + EQUAL - PREVENTX 2026: STORIES FOR CHANGE Conference
2026-03-24 09:30 - 2026-03-25 17:00
Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 March 2026

Two day in-person conference
(24 & 25 March)
Online workshops (26 March)

PreventX is Australia’s leading conference on the prevention of family and gender-based violence, bringing together practitioners to reflect, connect and explore how storytelling can drive meaningful and lasting change.

In 2026, PreventX returns as an in-person event with an online component, combining the energy of in-person connection with the accessibility of virtual engagement.
Hosted by Safe and Equal, PreventX is one of the largest gatherings of professionals working to prevent family and gender-based violence in Australia. Since 2019, it has brought together hundreds of practitioners from across the country to share insights, strategies and learnings on how to build momentum for long-term change.
In 2026, we’re coming together again with a renewed focus: What stories of impact are we seeing in our work? And how can we use storytelling to make our work possible?

What to expect

Whether you’re new to this space or deeply embedded in prevention, PreventX is an opportunity to:

Hear directly from practitioners, communities, advocates and grassroots initiatives across the country.
Build stronger connections and expand your network.
Share the change you’re seeing and be part of shaping what comes next.

Conference goals

Our hope for PreventX 2026 is that participants will:

Feel affirmed, inspired, bold and energised​ .
Have tangible information and tools to take action​ to continue to build momentum and support.
Develop connections to work together more often and effectively.

Who is PreventX for?

This conference is designed for anyone working to prevent family and gender-based violence who want to better understand and connect with prevention efforts.
BUY YOUR ADVANCE TICKET HERE

CFECFW - Protect, Share, Support: Understanding Family Violence in Disability Services
2026-04-14 09:30 - 13:30
14 April, Online | More info
Designed for disability support services outside MARAM, this workshop shares best‑practice guidance on responding to family violence, including information sharing and privacy.
Online– 14 April 2026, 9.30am to 1.30pm, Cost :$260 inc. GST

Safe and Equal - Responding to Disclosures
2026-04-17 09:30 - 12:30
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.

Online via Zoom
🎟️ AUD $180 (+GST) 10% discount for member organisations
👉 Register here

CFECFW - Putting MARAM into Practice
2026-04-21 09:30 - 13:30
ONLINE
Putting into Practice MARAM training, a 4 hour workshop for all workforces best suited to those with intermediate responsibilities to develop their confidence in working with people experiencing family violence and to build their MARAM skills and understanding.
Register here

Centre for Community Child Health - Working in Partnership with Families
2026-04-21 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-04-28 16:00 - 17:30
Working in Partnership with Families
Overview
This workshop will equip you to identify and use strategies that support a partnership approach within and across family services.
Why choose Working in Partnership with Families?
Working in Partnership draws on the evidence-based Family Partnership Model, an approach that fosters respectful collaboration between parents and professionals striving towards shared goals.

Increase your understanding of engagement and partnership as concepts that influence your practice.
Build your awareness of the worker and service characteristics that support engagement and working in partnership.
Learn how to identify and use tools and strategies that support a partnership approach within and across family services.

Reflections from past participants
‘Very interactive. I enjoyed the meaningful questions, activities and group discussions.’
Duration

2x 1.5-hour sessions
Also available as a half-day, one-day or two-day workshop.

Dates
21 April and 28 April 2026
Delivery
Online
Cost
$268.00
Time
4PM to 5.30PM
Contact
For further information or to enquire about tailoring a workshop to meet the needs of your organisation, please email us at training.ccch@rch.org.au
Participation
All training is participatory and highly interactive. Participants attending online workshops are asked to have cameras turned on throughout the session with a preference for one participant per screen.

Register now

VCOSS - AI and digital transformation in Victoria
2026-04-23 10:00 - 11:00
Online
The VCOSS Compliance and Operations Network is a space for staff in senior operations, risk, compliance and HR roles to come together and share experiences and learnings.
Staff from VCOSS members organisations can get advice and different perspectives on issues affecting the sector, including workforce, funding and financial sustainability, IT and data, regulation and more. Meetings are held online every two months.
The next meeting of the Network will focus on AI and digital transformation in Victoria. We are delighted to have the Gradient Institute come and speak to members about responsible AI use in the community sector.
For VCOSS members
Network membership is subject to verification of VCOSS membership.
Join the VCOSS Compliance and Operations Network here.

Take Two Berry Street - Trauma Responsive Infant Work
2026-04-27 09:30 - 16:00
Online
Overview
Infants exposed to violence and other traumatic events, including significant neglect, are most vulnerable to profound, enduring impacts of these experiences, unless interventions occur to remediate these impacts as early as possible. This workshop will support practitioners working with vulnerable infants (0-5 years) and their caregivers, to:

define the concept of Infant Mental Health and learn the key Take Two principles for working with vulnerable infants
understand the 5 key elements for optimal infant development
understand the neurobiology of in utero and early infant development; the role of caregiving in forming relational neurobiology; the neurobiology of toxic stress in infancy
the Take Two framework for infant carer assessment and intervention.

Participants will be provided with a range of tools and resources to support their work with infants and caregivers.
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CFECFW - MARAM Training for the Education Workforce
2026-04-28 09:30 - 13:30
Online
The Centre, in partnership with The Department of Education, is delivering free and interactive family violence MARAM training to education workforces, online and in person held in metropolitan and regional areas throughout Victoria up until June 2026.
REGISTER HERE

Safe and Equal - Case Notes, Family Violence and the Law
2026-04-29 09:15 - 16:30
Designed for family violence specialist practitioners and leaders, this course will cover the purpose of case notes, what should be recorded, documenting risk, privacy, legal issues, subpoenas and how to appear as a witness in court.
At the end of this full-day training, you will have increased your knowledge of best practices for the structure, style and language of case notes and broader confidentially and legal matters.
This training is delivered in partnership with Women’s Legal Service Victoria.
Online via Zoom
🎟️ AUD $380 (+GST) 10% discount for member organisations
👉 Register here

Berry Street - Holding Hope in Disability & Child and Family Services
2026-05-01 09:00 - 13:00
Online
Delivered by Josie van der Wal, Professional Lead, Specialist Behaviour Support & Psychology at Berry Street Yooralla, Holding Hope is a 4-hour webinar designed for practitioners in disability and child/family services who want practical tools to strengthen their work with families.
Grounded in evidence that shows outcomes improve when we build on protective factors, the session invites participants to pause, reflect, and rediscover what sustains families — and themselves — in complex systems.
The session integrates evidence-based frameworks, theory and validated assessment tools for protective factors and hope, and demonstrates how to adapt these into creative, strengths-based practices. Participants will leave with creative strategies they can apply immediately, along with decision-making guides for when and how to use these approaches. Through creative reflection, discussion, and practical activities, participants will explore how to translate theory into every day, culturally safe practices that build protective factors, nurture connection, and sustain professional hope.
Learning Outcomes

Explain the core concepts of hope, resilience, and protective factors, and how these shape outcomes for children, families, and practitioners.
Understand evidence-informed approaches and tools that help recognise and build protective factors in disability and child/family contexts.
Apply a protective-factor lens to everyday work, using creative, strength-based practices, and relational methods that make assessment and planning more strengths-based and culturally safe.
Reflect on barriers and opportunities for embedding hope-focused and strengths-based approaches within complex service systems.
Practitioners reconnect with their own sense of professional hope, anchor self-care and purpose to sustain reflective, compassionate practice.

Who Should Attend?

Disability practitioners (therapists, behaviour support practitioners, support coordinators, allied health staff).
Child and family service practitioners (case workers, family support, OOHC/child protection staff, early intervention).
Leaders, supervisors, and team managers seeking frameworks to support staff resilience and strengths-based practice.
Community service workers who engage directly with families under pressure.
Policy, program, and quality staff interested in embedding protective factor and hope-based approaches in systems and service design.

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Webinar: Uniting - How can services enable a healthy village?
2026-05-04 10:30 - 11:30
Across Australia, family services are being reshaped, with significant changes proposed to how support is organised and delivered.
This Uniting Families Report webinar, which will be held on Monday 4 May, 10.30am-11.30am (AEST), brings together insights from the Uniting Families Report ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ with what is currently being seen in practice across different communities, family types and states.
Uniting NSW.ACT, Uniting Vic.Tas and UnitingSA will share experiences from services supporting families to connect, build confidence and access help earlier.
These service spotlights will explore what a ‘village’ looks like in practice through community-based programs and relational supports.
The session will also include time to connect with others working with families and communities, and a live Q&A with the speakers.

REGISTER

Berry Street - Working with Infants and Parents where there is a Mental Illness
2026-05-11 09:30 - 12:30
Online
Partnering with Austin Health.
Delivered by Professor Anne Buist and Polly Cox from Austin Health, this webinar will examine the likely impact of serious mental illness on parenting capacity, its effects on the developing infant and the attachment relationship, as well as possible interventions to achieve the best outcome for parent and Infant.
Who should attend?
Practitioners working in child protection, mental health, foster care, early parenting centres, maternal child health, private practice and family support agencies.
Book now

A Decade of change - Turning Reform into Results
2026-05-12 08:00 - 2026-05-13 17:00
REGISTER HERE

Safe and Equal - Unpacking Resistance
2026-05-13 09:30 - 15:30
This one-day training helps you manage interpersonal pushback in primary prevention work. The course provides practical skills to turn resistance into a catalyst for change, using real world examples and role-play to build confidence in navigating difficult conversations.
🗺️ Online via Zoom
🎟️ AUD $300
👉 Register here

FRSA National Conference 2026 - Showcasing practice.evidence.impact
2026-05-18 08:00 - 2026-05-21 17:00
Registration details are available on the Conference website including registration and pre-conference workshop rates.
Register for the FRSA National Conference 2026, which will be held in Brisbane 18-21 May.
The FRSA National Conference 2026 provides a platform to showcase and learn from on the ground practice, policy, and research. The Conference is the must-attend event for anyone passionate about family and relationship services.
Registration details

OMFVP-TOGETHER IN PRACTICE
2026-05-26 10:00 - 13:00
LOCATION: WANGARATTA
Part B: ‘Shared Risk, shared responses. Risk management and safety planning’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

Take Two Berry Street - Facilitating Reflective Practice
2026-06-02 09:30 - 16:00
Online
This workshop will help participants answer the question, “what is reflective practice?” by exploring definitions and introducing the Take Two approach to reflective group work.
Reflective Practice groups are increasingly used within human services to assist professionals to improve practice. Despite this, the function and structure of many such groups remains ill-defined. This workshop will help participants answer the question, “what is reflective practice?” by exploring definitions and introducing the Take Two approach to reflective group work. This draws upon key principles of trauma-informed practice to effectively facilitate professional groups, particularly those working with service users experiencing adversity. Group safety, including cultural safety, is explored as a central construct, along with consideration of the facilitator role. Support is provided to plan and run groups from establishment to closure, including evaluation. We will also think about the phases within each reflective practice session, and provide practical advice about supporting progress through these to bring group members into a state of reflection.
Learning objectives

to acquire the skills to design and run both face to face and on-line reflective groups
to have knowledge and tools to manage and facilitate a reflective practice group throughout its duration, from establishment to closure
to know and select from three reflective practice models to use within sessions
to provide for the cultural safety and regulatory needs of reflective practice group participants
to plan for and implement an approach to group evaluation that suits your unique context.

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