Beyond the Surface: Understanding Risk, Patterns and Safety
Tue, Dec 08
|The Hub Bairnsdale
Grounded in the MARAM Framework, this course focuses on understanding patterns of behaviour, identifying strengths and protective factors, and partnering with victim survivors to build meaningful safety strategies and an evidenced-informed analysis of the risk rationale.
Time & Location
Dec 08, 2026, 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
The Hub Bairnsdale, 27 Dalmahoy St, Bairnsdale VIC 3875, Australia
About the event
Beyond the Surface
Understanding Risk, Patterns & Safety
A Practical 3-Hour Training for Professionals Responding to Family Violence
Family violence is rarely about a single incident. The greatest risks are often found in the patterns beneath the surface—patterns of coercive control, intimidation, isolation, fear and cumulative harm that affect adults, children, parenting and family functioning over time.
Practitioners may have the skills to complete a MARAM risk assessment and gather accurate information from the client and other relevant sources—but what happens next?
A critical part of the MARAM process is bringing that information together, applying structured professional judgement and developing a clear rationale for the assessed level of risk. Without this analysis, assessments can become a list of risk factors without clearly explaining the pattern of harm, the risk posed by the person using violence or the actions needed to support safety.