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Safe and Together Model Advocacy Institute

February 5-7 2014

Orlando, Florida

International Center for Innovation in Domestic Violence Practice (ICIDVP)

Welcome to the Safe and Together Advocacy Institute!

A collaboration between the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence and David Mandel & Associates/International Center for Innovation in Domestic Violence Practice

• Goals of the Advocate Instituteo Strengthen your individual advocacy with child welfare

involved clients,o Improve cross system collaboration through Safe and

Together training your agency peers and local child welfare agency staff and

o Improve your ability to provide case consultation to child welfare.

• Schedule for Round 1 F2F Training o Wednesday Feb 5: 9-5o Thursday Feb 6: 9-5o Friday Feb 7: 9-4

(c) 2014 David Mandel Associates LLC Do not reproduce or distribute without permission

David Mandel & Associates

• Roots and experience in the domestic violence and VAW since 1986

• Work with child welfare since 1996• State level work with child welfare and domestic

violence coalitions in more than 10 states• Growing international profile: Singapore, Ireland,

Scotland, England, Australia• In Florida since 2006-working first with FCADV

then DCF


David Mandel & Associates /ICIDVP

Practice Innovations

Safe and Together Model Suite of Tools

and Interventions

Continuum of Domestic Violence Practice (CODVP)

SafeEngagement/FathersPlus for home visitors, fatherhood

programs and others

Perpetrator Accountability and

Change (PAC)


Advocacy Institute Activities for Certification

• Completed application and letter of support from Executive Director

• Completion of pre-Institute and post-Institute surveys

• Attendance at face to face trainings February 5-7, 2014 (3 days) and June 17-19, 2014 (3 days)

• 4 Monthly Journal entries (500 words) submitted to Safe & Together Coach

• Attendance at monthly Group Video Conferences (2 hours in length)

• Individual coaching session via phone (2 sessions; 1 hour each).

• Conduct 5 trainings by June 30, 2014. Trainings are 1 hour in length.

• Creation of Individual Action Plan with tasks to be completed by June 17, 2014.

• Required reading and homework

• Completion of final online test

• Additional non-mandatory activities


Safe and Together Model Advocacy Certification

• Safe and Together Model Advocacy Institute certification is good for two years. The renewal process will be outlined in the future


1st Round F2F Goals• At the end of these first three days the

participants will be able too Describe the core aspects of the Safe and Together modelo Describe key practice skills

• Perpetrator Pattern Mapping• Pivoting• Survivor Strength Mapping

o Describe the value of domestic violence program agency services to children across numerous domains of functioning

o Discuss child safety and risk needs in a manner consistent with the Safe and Together model approach

o Write an initial action plan


Knowledge, Practice & Attitudes

• Domains of Knowledge o Basic Safe and Together Model: Model Characteristics, Principles and Critical

Componentso Basic Child Welfare System Knowledge

• Practice (Skills and Application of Skills)o Pivotingo Perpetrator Pattern Mappingo Adult Survivor Strength Mappingo Applying Safe and Together to individual advocacy, case consultation,

collaborative meetingso Training using Safe and Together material (peers & child welfare)o Talking about DV Centers and their work for childreno Talking about confidentiality and its value to childreno Action Planning

• Attitudes & Awarenesso Gender Double Standard/Setting High Standards For Men as Parentso Openness to other perspectives (primary child welfare’s)o Perpetrator orientation


Additional Activities to Support Your Success

• Two webinars/conference calls with your agency supervisors to provide information necessary for them to support you in your effortso 1st one: within ten days of completion of the Institute

• Two webinars for your local child welfare partnerso Goal: To introduce and support your efforts

• Phone TA to supplement other activities• Safer and Together Model Advocacy Institute

website (password protected)o Manualo Non-mandatory courseso Discussion pageo Additional materials


Evaluation PlanThere is a multi-part evaluation plan: • Advocate

o Pre/post surveyo Practice: follow up-1 month/3 months after completion of the Institute.o Journals: Anonymous, de-identified themes and learning only. Specific quotes

and identifiers with explicit permission only!o Online test/certification

• Center leadership o Pre/post surveyo Practice follow up-1 month/3 months after completion of the Institute.

• Survey of recipients of training delivered by Advocacy Institute participants o Advocates & child welfareo Link for online survey given at each training

• Email collection with brief questions immediately after the training within 1 week –three questions/$100 gift certificate

o Email follow up around practice – 1 month/3 month survey after training completion.


Context• Child welfare and domestic violence fields

developed separatelyo Think child fatality/domestic violence fatality review policieso Roots of child welfare in prevention of cruelty to animals/Roots of

modern domestic violence organizations in women’s rights/battered women’s activism

o Different philosophies, different missions, same families,• What are child welfare’s non-negotiables?• What are domestic violence advocates non-negotiables?

o Shared focus on women and children, and invisibility of meno In home v. out of home work locationo Different expectation regarding confidentialityo Different levels of involvement with criminal court system/law

enforcemento Different levels of public/political attention to practice and its efficacy


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