About The Project

What is PARt?

The ‘Prevent. Assist. Respond. Training’ (PARt) project was funded in July 2022 to develop specialist ongoing domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) training for police and healthcare workers in the Northern Territory.

Northern Territory Police and the Northern Territory Department of Health have lent their support to this project, which was funded by the Northern Territory Government’s ‘Community and place-based partnerships for prevention and response to domestic, family, and sexual violence’ grants. The PARt project is being delivered in a consortium led by Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation, with its partners Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia (WoSSCA), the Domestic Violence Legal Service (DVLS) and the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission.

Born out of an identified need for improved training for police and healthcare, and the result of decades of advocacy by the specialist DFSV sector and women's services.

The PARt project has four central aims:

  • 1.

    To ensure the voices of victim-survivors, particularly Aboriginal women, inform the training materials and package for police and healthcare workers.

  • 2.

    To increase collaboration and strengthen relationships between the DFSV sector, health and police

  • 3.

    To increase knowledge and understanding of DFSV, its drivers, emerging forms (such as technology-facilitated abuse), myths and misconceptions, CRAT/RAMF, key challenges (such as misidentification), trauma-informed culturally-safe and non-collusive practice, and vicarious trauma among stakeholders and community members through the development of the training package.

  • 4.

    To support healthcare workers and police with targeted ongoing specialist training materials and package, that are online, accessible, and modular with attached competencies.