Module 4: Engaging Perpetrators as Caregivers - Cohort A

Course Description
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) can have an impact on the physical and emotional safety of the children and the functioning of the entire family. This series offers safety-organized concepts to increase proficiency in engaging and interviewing IPV survivors and perpetrators. Trainers will engage participants in critical thinking about their practice when there is a perpetrator pattern of coercive control and violence. This training teaches participants the difference between a traditional “failure to protect” approach and a safety organized culture and make linkage to the core practice model when working with families experiencing intimate partner violence. It can be a challenge to hold the perpetrator responsible and engage them in safety planning and case planning services, while keeping the children safe in the care of the survivor.

Module 4: Engaging Perpetrators as Caregivers
1. Explore various systems perpetrators manipulate causing harm to survivors and children
2. Participants will explore implicit bias, gender stereotypes and parenting standards which impact perpetrator engagement
3. Explore trauma impact to children exposed to intimate partner violence
4. Review naïve and best practices and the do’s and don’ts when working with caregivers who perpetrate violence