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Changing Tracks Service - Men's Behaviour Change Programs

The Changing Tracks Service, operational in Bunbury and Albany, provides groupwork intervention to men who are choosing to use violence or who have used violence in the intimate partner and/or family setting. Improving responses and intervening with those choosing to use violence is an essential part of improving safety for adult and child victim-survivors.

Many men who use violence in their intimate and family relationships want to change, to improve their relationships with their partners, ex-partners and children and not to continue to use violence within their relationships in the future. Anglicare WA facilitates two groupwork programs in both Albany and Bunbury, ‘Changing Tracks’ and ‘Caring Dads’ – these are explained below.

If you are outside of the Bunbury/Albany catchment areas, please visit the Men’s Behaviour Change Network website Home | MBCN where you can find Men’s Behaviour Change programs being run by different organisations across the state. 

What is the 'Changing Tracks' program?

Changing Tracks is a Men's Behaviour Change (MBC) program providing a structured intervention designed to help men who have used violence, coercion, or control in their relationships. These programs aim to address and change harmful behaviours, fostering respectful and non-violent relationships. The program includes:

  1. Accountability: Participants are encouraged to acknowledge their harmful behaviours and take responsibility for their actions.
  2. Understanding Impact: Men learn about the effects of their actions on their partners, children, and other relationships.
  3. Developing Respectful Relationships: The program provides strategies to engage in non-violent, non-controlling ways with loved ones

Changing Tracks is a run over 24 weeks, for two hours a week. This model is run as a ‘rolling program’, so participants can join at various, specific, times throughout the program.

To find out more, please complete the expression of interest form and someone will be in touch with you.

What is the 'Caring Dads' service?

The Caring Dads program is a therapeutic groupwork intervention program designed to work with fathers to promote the safety and well-being of their children and the children's mothers. The program centres around fathering and the effect of the perpetration of FDV on their partners/ex-partners and children, promoting change.

The Caring Dads program is structured as a 17-week psycho-educational group intervention. The program is designed for fathers who have physically or emotionally abused or neglected their children, exposed them to domestic violence, or are at high risk for these behaviours.

Program Goals:

  • Ensure the safety and well-being of children.
  • Develop trust and motivation to engage fathers in examining their parenting.
  • Increase awareness and application of child-cantered fathering.
  • Eliminate abusive and neglectful behaviours.
  • Promote respectful and non-abusive co-parenting.
  • Being a father or in a fathering type role is a prerequisite for this program.

 

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