03/18/2025
03/20/2025
Embark on a transformative journey at the 2025 Coercive Control & Children Conference, hosted by the Safe & Together Institute. Gain valuable international and regional insights tailored to your local context, empowering you to create lasting change in your community. Connect with a global network of practitioners dedicated to turning commitment into action.
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As CEO and creator of the Safe & Together Model, David Mandel has spent more than two decades pioneering approaches to understanding how domestic violence and coercive control impact children and families. In this Masterclass, he will examine how professionals across child-serving systems can better document and demonstrate the harmful patterns of coercive control that often go unrecognized. Mandel will share strategies for capturing how perpetrator patterns affect children's wellbeing, focusing on practical tools for practitioners to identify and respond to these dynamics within their specific roles. Through this presentation, he aims to equip professionals across multiple sectors with concrete methods for making coercive control visible and actionable, ultimately supporting decisions and interventions that prioritize child safety.
Speaker: David Mandel
As CEO and creator of the Safe & Together Model, David Mandel has spent more than two decades pioneering approaches to understanding how domestic violence and coercive control impact children and families. In this Masterclass, he will examine how professionals across child-serving systems can better document and demonstrate the harmful patterns of coercive control that often go unrecognized. Mandel will share strategies for capturing how perpetrator patterns affect children's wellbeing, focusing on practical tools for practitioners to identify and respond to these dynamics within their specific roles. Through this presentation, he aims to equip professionals across multiple sectors with concrete methods for making coercive control visible and actionable, ultimately supporting decisions and interventions that prioritize child safety.
Speaker: David Mandel
Drawing from the “Myth of Trauma-Informed Practice” and other material from David Mandel’s recent book, this masterclass explores the complex intersections between domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues in families. Participants will learn strategies for comprehensive assessment and intervention when multiple issues intersect.
Key topics include:
● Understanding how domestic violence perpetrators' coercive control tactics can cause, exacerbate or interfere with survivors' substance use and mental health
● Considering how perpetrators weaponise allegations of substance use and mental health against survivors
● Identifying how perpetrators may use survivors' substance use or mental health issues as part of their pattern of coercive control
● Developing integrated safety planning that addresses domestic violence, substance use and mental health concerns holistically
● Collaborating effectively across domestic violence, substance abuse and mental health service systems
● Engaging men who use violence as parents while addressing intersecting issues
Through lecture, case studies, small group exercises, and guided discussion, attendees will enhance their ability to provide trauma-informed, integrated care that addresses the unique dynamics of families facing multiple, intersecting challenges. Participants will leave with practical tools and strategies to improve outcomes for adult and child survivors.
Drawing from the “Myth of Trauma-Informed Practice” and other material from David Mandel’s recent book, this masterclass explores the complex intersections between domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues in families. Participants will learn strategies for comprehensive assessment and intervention when multiple issues intersect.
Key topics include:
● Understanding how domestic violence perpetrators' coercive control tactics can cause, exacerbate or interfere with survivors' substance use and mental health
● Considering how perpetrators weaponise allegations of substance use and mental health against survivors
● Identifying how perpetrators may use survivors' substance use or mental health issues as part of their pattern of coercive control
● Developing integrated safety planning that addresses domestic violence, substance use and mental health concerns holistically
● Collaborating effectively across domestic violence, substance abuse and mental health service systems
● Engaging men who use violence as parents while addressing intersecting issues
Through lecture, case studies, small group exercises, and guided discussion, attendees will enhance their ability to provide trauma-informed, integrated care that addresses the unique dynamics of families facing multiple, intersecting challenges. Participants will leave with practical tools and strategies to improve outcomes for adult and child survivors.
In this masterclass, participants will be introduced to the Principles, Critical Components, and other key aspects of the paradigm-shifting Safe & Together Model. Participants will learn how the Model’s concepts, skills and tools can transform individual practice, agency culture and systems, and cross-sector collaboration. Learn about partnering with survivors, keeping children safe and intervening with perpetrators as parents. Participants are guaranteed to leave the session with new practices they can implement immediately.
Speaker: Deb Nicholson
In this masterclass, participants will be introduced to the Principles, Critical Components, and other key aspects of the paradigm-shifting Safe & Together Model. Participants will learn how the Model’s concepts, skills and tools can transform individual practice, agency culture and systems, and cross-sector collaboration. Learn about partnering with survivors, keeping children safe and intervening with perpetrators as parents. Participants are guaranteed to leave the session with new practices they can implement immediately.
Speaker: Deb Nicholson
Honoring individuals excelling in the Safe & Together Model™, these awards celebrate outstanding achievements in two categories: Excellence in Systems Change, recognizing transformative leadership in domestic abuse-informed practices, and Excellence in Case Practice, highlighting exceptional application of the model in individual casework.
Honoring individuals excelling in the Safe & Together Model™, these awards celebrate outstanding achievements in two categories: Excellence in Systems Change, recognizing transformative leadership in domestic abuse-informed practices, and Excellence in Case Practice, highlighting exceptional application of the model in individual casework.