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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Aug 24 2026
- Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Foundations for Safe Parenting
Understand the impact of family and domestic violence, support children’s healing, and build safer, more respectful family relationships.
Free 2-Hour Online Webinar | Australia-Wide
Family and domestic violence (FDV), also known as domestic violence (DV), can affect every member of a family, especially children.
This free webinar is designed to help parents, carers and caregivers better understand the impacts of family and domestic violence, including coercive control, emotional abuse and psychological abuse. Across 2 hours, you’ll learn practical ways to create safety, rebuild trust and support your child’s emotional wellbeing.
Whether you are supporting children after experiences of violence, navigating family change, or wanting to strengthen your parenting approach, this webinar provides a safe and supportive place to learn.
Delivered live by qualified practitioners, this interactive session combines evidence-based information with practical strategies you can apply at home.
Who is this webinar for?
Open to participants across Australia, this webinar is suitable for:
- Parents and carers who have experienced family and domestic violence
- Non-offending parents supporting children affected by violence
- Grandparents and kinship carers
- Foster carers
- Family members supporting children through family change
- Anyone wanting to better understand the impacts of coercive control and domestic violence on children
What you will gain:
By attending, you will:
- Understand what family and domestic violence looks like beyond physical violence
- Recognise patterns of coercive control and emotional abuse
- Learn how violence can affect children’s behaviour, emotions and development
- Better understand attachment, trust and emotional safety
- Develop practical communication skills for everyday parenting
- Learn strategies to manage your own emotional responses and triggers
- Build confidence in creating safe, respectful family relationships
- Take away practical tools you can use immediately
Topics covered include:
Learn about the different forms of family and domestic violence, including:
- Physical violence
- Emotional abuse
- Psychological abuse
- Financial abuse
- Social isolation
- Technology-facilitated abuse
- Coercive control
We explore how domestic and family violence is often a repeated pattern of behaviour used to create fear, gain control or cause harm.
Coercive control is now widely recognised as a serious form of abuse.
You will learn:
- What coercive control is
- Common warning signs
- How controlling behaviours affect adults and children
- Why coercive control can be difficult to recognise
- The long-term impacts on family wellbeing
Children do not need to witness physical violence to be affected by it.
We explore:
- How children experience violence in the home
- Emotional and psychological impacts
- Common behavioural responses
- The effects on brain development and emotional regulation
- Why children may respond differently to stressful experiences
Strong relationships help children heal.
This section explores:
- Attachment and child development
- Why emotional safety matters
- How children rebuild trust
- What children need from safe adults
- Supporting connection while maintaining healthy boundaries
Parenting can be challenging when families are recovering from difficult experiences.
Learn practical strategies to:
- Understand your own triggers
- Respond rather than react
- Support emotional regulation
- Communicate more effectively
- Create calm and predictable environments for children
Why This Matters
Family and domestic violence remains one of Australia’s most significant social issues.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, an estimated 1 in 5 Australian adults have experienced violence, emotional abuse or economic abuse by a current or former partner (Ref: abs.gov.au)
Research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare also shows that children can be deeply affected by exposure to family violence, including emotional, psychological and developmental impacts.
Understanding these impacts is an important step towards creating safer, healthier futures for children and families.
Register today
Safe parenting starts with understanding.
Join us for this free Australia-wide webinar and gain practical tools to support healing, emotional safety and stronger family relationships.