The Safe & Together journal is an integral part of the Safe & Together Advocacy Institute. This journal is meant to be used as:

  • A place to reflect on Safe & Together skills learned and practiced in the field
  • A place to focus on your Action Plan, including progress and barriers
  • A place to ask questions
  • A place to chronicle successes and bumps in the road
  • A place to write about observations and lessons learned
  • A place to note great practice, whether on the part of yourself or others
  • A place to express gratefulness and self-care

Requirements:

  • As a requirement of certification, journal entries must be emailed to your Safe & Together Coach every month by required date.
  • Journal entries must be at least 500 words, and can include pictures, art, video, etc. We welcome creativity!
  • Journal entries must focus on skills, practice, successes, barriers or observations related to the Safe & Together training and Advocate’s own Action Plan. A different topic or theme should be covered each month, unless expressly discussed with your Safe & Together Coach beforehand.
  • Journal Entry Prompts may be used for journal entries, but are not required.

Journal Prompts:

We know your jobs are often busy, demanding, long, and involve daily crisis. We also realize that sitting down to write a journal entry for the Advocacy Institute may feel like “just another thing”. For that reason we have provided prompts to help get you started. Please feel free to use them (or not!). They are meant only as a guide.

  • My first experience trying pivoting…
  • Since attending the training, my conversations with child welfare have changed…
  • Since attending the training, my conversations with survivors have changed…
  • I helped a child welfare worker to broaden his/her thinking about intervening with a domestic violence perpetrator…
  • One thing I never realized about child welfare…
  • Having a better understanding of child welfare’s role has helped me to…
  • It has been ______to shift my focus to talking about how the perpetrator has harmed the children
  • My greatest success in working collaboratively with child welfare…
  • My first training went…
  • My colleagues reaction to my training…
  • Shifting Child Welfare to focus more on domestic violence perpetrators has been…
  • Using Safe & Together has helped me to…
  • Helping a survivor to articulate her strengths to her case worker was…