DART Institute Australia

DART Institute Australia delivers family, domestic and sexual violence training to workplaces and frontline services across Australia.

• Primary and foundations level programs for community organisations and general service providers, covering awareness, early intervention and recognising abuse.
• Secondary level training for healthcare workers, social workers, educators and others who regularly meet people at risk of family violence.
• Tertiary and specialist training for services managing complex cases, intervention, response and recovery.
• Workshops, webinars and courses built by practitioners drawn from perpetrator intervention, sexual violence, child and family services, mental health, legal systems, policing and crisis response.

Best for: employers and service systems building a workforce that can recognise coercive control, respond to risk and share information safely.

DART Institute Australia runs workplace courses that equip employers to recognise and respond to family and domestic violence affecting their staff.

• Family Violence in the Workplace and Responding to Disclosures in the Workplace, each delivered in person or virtually.
• FDV Response Workplace First Aid, the FDV Workplace Awareness Lunch and Learn, and Foundations of FDV in the Workplace delivered through a learning management system.
• Understanding Workplace Trauma and Self-Care Strategies, covering the body’s stress responses when staff are exposed to high risk cases.

Best for: employers that want staff able to recognise family and domestic violence and respond when a colleague discloses.