PATHS – Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan

Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training by PATHS
2023-05-16 08:30 - 2023-05-19 16:30 (America/Regina)
4 Day CORE Training — May 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2023 — 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (In Regina; Location TBA)

Day 1 — 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM — Tuesday 16 May 2023
Day 2 — 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM — Wednesday 17 May 2023
Day 3 — 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM — Thursday 18 May 2023
Day 4 — 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM — Friday 19 May 2023

The 4 Day training is $420.35. REGISTER HERE. Download the flier with details here.
Training Details
This 4-day training session is designed to help participants be more successful in their work, to be in better alignment with their values as family-serving professionals and how to ideally keep children safe and together with the domestic violence survivor.
Pretest
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email that contains a link to a PRETEST. The multiple-choice questionnaire will only take up to 10 minutes. We ask that you complete it to the best of your ability BEFORE arriving to your first training day. The questions may seem specific, but please read each question carefully and select the answers that seem best or in a way that best matches your own practice. This pretest is meant to begin the learning process and your score will NOT affect your participation or certificate in any way.
Questions
Kathryn Boyce, PATHS Project Coordinator paths.projects@sasktel.net
About Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training
Safe & Together Institute’s CORE Training is designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic violence-informed practice. Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas:

Day 1 Assessment
Day 2 Interviewing
Day 3 Documentation
Day 4 Case Planning

CORE Training explores the importance of:

Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning
Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns
Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence
Intervening with perpetrators
How domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health

Participants of the CORE Training will:

Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm that can be implemented right away to improve assessment of risk, impact on children, survivor protective efforts and essential case decisions.
Practice interviewing perpetrators, survivors and children through modeling, role play and videos.
Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
Discuss their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.

Also included in CORE Training:

Plans will be developed by participants to support the implementation of the Model to improve their day-to-day practice and to influence their communities and family service systems to become more domestic violence-informed.
Participants will complete a pre- and posttest to reflect learning, as well as a training evaluation.
Participants who attend all four days and take the posttest will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.
Participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the CORE Training posttest will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.

Target Audience

Gender-based violence professionals (domestic violence shelters, domestic violence services, sexual assault centres)
Child Welfare Practitioners
Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health and other community service providers
Batterer Intervention or Men’s Behavior Change staff
Court and Legal Personnel
Law Enforcement
Health and Home Visitors
Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence

Group Size

This training has a maximum of 40 participants.

Cancellation Policy
You may request to cancel your registration for a refund minus a 10% administrative fee up to 10 business days before the event. Cancellations up to three days before the event may be transferred to a future session of the same training, or you may receive a refund minus a 25% administrative fee. Cancellations made less than three days before the event may not receive a refund or a transfer. When you register for a training session, you agree to these terms.

Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Violence for Family Law Practitioners
2023-09-25 08:00 - 2023-09-28 12:00
This training will provide an overview of the dynamics of domestic violence in the context of separation, divorce, and child custody and access. All are welcome to attend. The training will take place over 4 mornings (8 am – 12 pm Saskatchewan time), Monday, September 25- Thursday, September 28, 2023. The training will be held using Zoom. A link and password will be sent out to registered participants prior to the training.
This training qualifies for:
• 15 hours for Continuing Professional Development credits (4.5 hours of Ethics credits) with the Law Society of Saskatchewan
• 16 ADRIC Continuing Education & Engagement (CEE) credits to persons with a Q or C Med designation. Also approved for 16 hours of training for persons applying for a Q. Med designation.
• 15 hours for Continuing Professional Development credits with Law Society of British Columbia
• Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Yukon lawyers: consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your annual Continuing Professional Development Plan
See the detailed agenda here
REGISTER HERE (When registering, be sure to select the dates that you wish to attend under “available training courses”)
If you cannot attend this training, visit this page to enter your information to be notified of future training dates!

The training is delivered by Jo-Anne Dusel and Crystal Giesbrecht.
Jo-Anne Dusel has been the Executive Director of PATHS since 2014. Prior to that, she spent two decades working front line with women survivors of intimate partner violence at Moose Jaw Transition House. She has served as co-chair of the Board of Directors for Women’s Shelters Canada and has participated in other national initiatives, including the Expert Engagement to Address and Prevent Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to help inform the National Action Plan to End GBV.
Crystal Giesbrecht has served as the Director of Research and Communications at the Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan (PATHS), the member association for domestic violence shelters and counselling centres, since January 2011. Crystal is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina and a Vanier Canada Scholar. She has conducted research relating to intimate partner violence and has published her work in peer-reviewed journals.
Both Jo-Anne and Crystal have served as Expert Advisory Panel members for the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability’s (CFOJA), as panelists for Saskatchewan’s current Domestic Violence Death Review, and sit on the Multi-Sectoral Review Committee for Clare’s Law.

Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training by PATHS in Saskatoon
2023-09-25 09:00 - 2023-09-28 16:00
September 25- 28, 2023, 9- 4 pm in Saskatoon
Training is $420.35. REGISTER HERE. Download the flier with details here.
Training Details:
This 4-day training session is designed to help participants be more successful in their work, to be in better alignment with their values as family-serving professionals and how to ideally keep children safe and together with the domestic violence survivor.
Pretest:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email that contains a link to a PRETEST. The multiple-choice questionnaire will only take up to 10 minutes. We ask that you complete it to the best of your ability BEFORE arriving to your first training day. The questions may seem specific, but please read each question carefully and select the answers that seem best or in a way that best matches your own practice. This pretest is meant to begin the learning process and your score will NOT affect your participation or certificate in any way.
Questions:
Kathryn Boyce, PATHS Project Coordinator paths.projects@sasktel.net
About Safe & Together™ Model CORE Training
Safe & Together Institute’s CORE Training is designed to provide a skills-oriented foundation for domestic violence-informed practice. Each day of training provides experiential classroom training focused on the following foundational practice areas:

Day 1 Assessment
Day 2 Interviewing
Day 3 Documentation
Day 4 Case Planning

CORE Training explores the importance of:

Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning
Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns
Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence
Intervening with perpetrators
How domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health

Participants of the CORE Training will:

Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm that can be implemented right away to improve assessment of risk, impact on children, survivor protective efforts and essential case decisions.
Practice interviewing perpetrators, survivors and children through modeling, role play and videos.
Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises.
Discuss their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented.

Also included in CORE Training:

Plans will be developed by participants to support the implementation of the Model to improve their day-to-day practice and to influence their communities and family service systems to become more domestic violence-informed.
Participants will complete a pre- and posttest to reflect learning, as well as a training evaluation.
Participants who attend all four days and take the posttest will receive a certificate of completion, which indicates they participated in 22 training hours.
Participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the CORE Training posttest will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.

Target Audience:

Gender-based violence professionals (domestic violence shelters, domestic violence services, sexual assault centres)
Child Welfare Practitioners
Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health and other community service providers
Batterer Intervention or Men’s Behavior Change staff
Court and Legal Personnel
Law Enforcement
Health and Home Visitors
Anyone working with families impacted by domestic violence

Group Size:

This training has a maximum of 40 participants.

CORE as a prerequisite:

participants who complete all four days and score an 80% or higher on the CORE Training
posttest will meet one of the prerequisites to become a Safe & Together Model Certified
Trainer.

Cancellation Policy:
You may request to cancel your registration for a refund minus a 10% administrative fee up to 10 business days before the event. Cancellations up to three days before the event may be transferred to a future session of the same training, or you may receive a refund minus a 25% administrative fee. Cancellations made less than three days before the event may not receive a refund or a transfer. When you register for a training session, you agree to these terms.

PATHS Understanding Dynamics of Domestic Violence for Family Law Practitioners
2024-01-22 08:00 - 2024-01-25 12:00
This training will provide an overview of the dynamics of domestic violence in the context of separation, divorce, and child custody and access. All are welcome to attend. The training will take place over 4 mornings (8 am – 12 pm Saskatchewan time), Monday, January 22- Thursday, January 25, 2024. The training will be held using Zoom. A link and password will be sent out to participants upon registration.
This training qualifies for:

15 hours for Continuing Professional Development credits (4.5 hours of Ethics credits) with the Law Society of Saskatchewan
• 16 ADRIC Continuing Education & Engagement (CEE) credits to persons with a Q or C Med designation. Also approved for 16 hours of training for persons applying for a Q. Med designation.
• 15 hours for Continuing Professional Development credits with Law Society of British Columbia
• Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Yukon lawyers: consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your annual Continuing Professional Development Plan

See the detailed agenda here
If you cannot attend this training, visit this page to enter your information to be notified of future training dates!
The training is delivered by Jo-Anne Dusel and Crystal Giesbrecht.
Jo-Anne Dusel has been the Executive Director of PATHS since 2014. Prior to that, she spent two decades working front line with women survivors of intimate partner violence at Moose Jaw Transition House. She has served as co-chair of the Board of Directors for Women’s Shelters Canada and has participated in other national initiatives, including the Expert Engagement to Address and Prevent Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to help inform the National Action Plan to End GBV.
Crystal Giesbrecht has served as the Director of Research and Communications at PATHS since January 2011. Crystal is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina and a Vanier Canada Scholar. She conducts research relating to intimate partner violence and publishes her work in peer-reviewed journals.
Both Jo-Anne and Crystal have served as Expert Advisory Panel members for the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability’s (CFOJA), as panelists for Saskatchewan’s current Domestic Violence Death Review, and sit on the Multi-Sectoral Review Committee for Clare’s Law.
