Post on 09-Apr-2020
Perpetrator Accountability in Practice:
Engaging and Responding to Men who
Perpetrate Family and Domestic
Violence
Training for child protection workers and family
and domestic violence sector staff, facilitated by
No To Violence Male Family Violence Prevention
Association
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Overview
Perpetrators of family and domestic violence choose to use violence; their behaviour
is deliberate and intentional. In most cases, there is nothing a child or adult victim
could do to stop a man from using violence.
Perpetrator accountability is about creating safety for women and children by holding
the man using violence responsible for their behaviour. In practice this includes a
range of roles and responsibilities, including consulting with the adult victim and
strengthening the mother-child bond; engaging and inviting men to take responsibility
for their behaviour; case management and referral to a men’s behaviour change
program or violence-focused individual counselling; identifying, managing and
monitoring risk; and pursuing civil and criminal justice responses.
In child protection cases where family and domestic violence is present, working
towards the safety of the adult victim and the accountability of the perpetrator can be
crucial to the safety of the child.
All agencies responding to family and domestic violence have a role in perpetrator
accountability.
Rodney Vlais from No To Violence will present a 2-day training event for child
protection workers and family and domestic violence sector staff about working
towards perpetrator accountability. Topics will include:
• links between child abuse and family and domestic violence;
• the ways in which perpetrators can harm children’s safety and well-being
through family and domestic violence;
• understanding men’s use of family and domestic violence;
• assessing and managing risk to children’s and women’s safety;
• objectives, principles and practices of engaging men who use violence,
including avoiding collusion; and
• men’s behaviour change programs including referral and monitoring of
progress.
Three training sessions will be held in the Perth metropolitan area and one each in
Albany and Broome.
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Profiles
No To Violence
No To Violence (NTV), the Male Family Violence Prevention Association, is the
Victorian statewide peak body for organisations and individuals working with men to
end their violence and abuse against family members.
They provide training, professional development, standards of practice, policy
development, resources and sector advocacy for service responses and primary
prevention initiatives.
By doing this they see to work towards a world free of men’s violence against family
members, and where family members can live without fear of violence (see
www.ntv.org.au).
Rodney Vlais
Rodney Vlais is Policy and Practice Coordinator at No To
Violence, where he is responsible for the organisation’s
training, professional development, policy and resource
development work.
He has substantial experience in service delivery with men
who perpetrate family and domestic violence, and is
passionate about evolving systems of practice centred on
the safety, well-being and human rights of women and
children, and towards the transformation of gender-based power and privilege.
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Perth training dates
Choose from either:
7-8 March 2013
Location: Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club
Esplanade
DALKEITH
Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm (registration from 8:30am)
3-4 April 2013
Location: South of Perth Yacht Club
Coffee Point (Cnr Duncraig and Canning Beach Roads)
APPLECROSS
Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm (registration from 8:30am)
16-17 April 2013
Location: Cruising Yacht Club of WA
2 Val Street
ROCKINGHAM
Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm (registration from 8:30am)
*see page 7 for maps and parking information
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Regional training dates
Broome
18-19 April 2013
Location: The Mangrove Resort
47 Carnarvon Street
BROOME
Times: Day 1 -10:30am –5:00 pm (registration from 10:00am)
Day 2 – 9:00am – 4:30pm
Albany
15-16 May 2013
Location: Albany Entertainment Centre
2 Toll Place (off Princess Royal Drive)
ALBANY
Time: 9:00am –4:30pm (registration from 8:30am)
*see page 10 for maps and parking information
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Registration
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided. Please advise of dietary
requirements when you register.
DCP staff:
Cost to staff is covered by the Department.
Register online via https://www.research.net/s/VWLNYCR
Sector staff:
Sector training cost: $143.00 including GST.
Register online via http://www.communicare.org.au/Therapetutic-
Services/perpetrator-accountability-in-practice.html
Pre-training preparation
Participants are expected to prepare for the workshop by listening to the audio or
reading the transcript of the Australian Institute of Family Studies webinar “Making
men who perpetrate family violence visible in child protection work” at
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/events/vlais/index.html
DCP staff are also expected to read Casework Practice Manual Chapter 14: Family
and Domestic Violence, in particular 14.3 Family and Domestic Violence and
Perpetrator Accountability
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Maps and parking information
Perth metro
Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club
Esplanade, DALKEITH
Free parking is available directly opposite the Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club
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Maps and parking information
South of Perth Yacht Club
Coffee Point (Cnr Duncraig and Canning Beach Roads), APPLECROSS
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Maps and parking information
Cruising Yacht Club of WA
2 Val Street, ROCKINGHAM
Free parking is available in the members car park opposite the Club.
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Broome
The Mangrove Resort
47 Carnarvon Street, BROOME
Free parking is available on-site. Additional parking is located opposite the Resort.
Maps and parking information
Albany
The Albany Entertainment Centre
2 Toll Place (off Princess Royal Drive), ALBANY
Parking is available in the Centre’s car park on Toll Place, which can be accessed
from Princess Royal Drive. Additional parking is available in the City CBD north of
the railway line where participants may use the footbridge to access the Centre.
Maps and parking information