Connect and Respect is a Family and Domestic Violence program facilitated by Anglicare and Communicare. This program aims to help increase safety for victim survivors and children by supporting participants to explore and take responsibility for their behaviour, use of violence and patterns of behaviour.  It is a blended design, utilising psychoeducation, cognitive behavioural therapy, narrative therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy techniques.

The program has been designed to allow facilitators to be responsiveto the needs of Aberiginal and other cultural groups. The program provides the opportunity to participants to: 

• Understand the social and cultural sanctioning of male abuse;

• To be accountable and take responsibility for their violence;

• Explore and practice non-abusive ways of thinking, feeling and acting;

• Build empathy for experience of partners and children;

• Identify personal goals for positive and non-abusive ways of relating, communicating and behaving. For community based offenders, two additional adjunct interventions can be accessed; Alcohol and other Drugs (AOD/FDV) and High Resistance Program (HRP).

This program can be delivered in community or in prisons.