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