Safer Families Toolkit

Understanding coercive control tactics

**Coercive control-psychological violence tactics**

The disemPOWERed & out of CONTROL wheel
(Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander resource)

Power and control wheel for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans relationships

Identifying DFV and asking about safety

**Starting the Conversation about family Violence video**

First line response

**Initial response: validation Statements**

Ongoing responses

**Readiness to change motivational interviewing tool**

As a GP or other health practitioner, you are uniquely positioned to start a conversation about family violence. With the right tools and supports, you can help empower women to break the silence and seek safety. The Safer Families Toolkit is a set of tools to use in clinical practice and is how practitioners should ACT to identify and respond to domestic and family violence. Before you explore the toolkit, take a look at the REAL Model as it is important to RELATE and ENGAGE with survivors before you ACT and LEARN.
The toolkit is designed to help you identify and respond to those experiencing domestic abuse. It can be downloaded as PDFs. Permission is not required for you to use these within your clinical practice. Permission however is required to copy or reproduce these tools for training, publishing or other purposes.

Family Safety 5 As model

Knowing when and how to start that conversation or what the right words are can be challenging. Use the 5-As framework of victim-survivor voices to guide health practitioner conversations about family violence. Download the 5A’s framework HERE