Family Violence Practice ✦ Trauma-Informed Practice ✦ Supervision & Leadership ✦ Mandatory Reporting ✦ Safe & Together Partner Agency ✦ Safe & Together CORE Training ✦ First Nations Cultural Safety ✦ AI in the Workplace ✦ Communities of Practice ✦ Perpetrator Pattern-Based Practice ✦ Youth DFV Practice ✦ DFV Systems Reform Support ✦ Child Protection Training ✦ Real training that sticks ✦ Family Violence Practice ✦ Trauma-Informed Practice ✦ Supervision & Leadership ✦ Mandatory Reporting ✦ Safe & Together Partner Agency ✦ Safe & Together CORE Training ✦ First Nations Cultural Safety ✦ AI in the Workplace ✦ Communities of Practice ✦ Perpetrator Pattern-Based Practice ✦ Youth DFV Practice ✦ DFV Systems Reform Support ✦ Child Protection Training ✦ Real training that sticks ✦
🌿 Tasmania · Registered NFP · Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency

Created with grace. Delivered with grit.

Real training that sticks! 🔥

Safe & Together training, plus training and consulting for community, family, and social services workers — from practitioners who have actually done the work. 74 combined years. Zero jargon. Built for the real world.

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Safe & Together™ Model

Safe & Together training,
delivered in Tasmania.

Grace & Grit is a Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency. Tanya Brooks-Cooper is a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer, holding CORE, Overview, and Supervisor & Manager credentials, and delivers the full training suite through Grace & Grit.

The Model is a child-centred, perpetrator pattern–based framework for working with families where domestic abuse is present. It moves practice away from blaming protective parents and towards holding perpetrators accountable for their choices as parents.

The Model sits naturally alongside the ANROWS National Risk Assessment Principles and Risk Factors for family and domestic violence, the shared, evidence-based foundation that Tasmania and other states and territories draw on for their risk assessment frameworks. Both look past single incidents to the pattern of behaviour and its impact on children.

The three principles

  1. Keeping children safe and together with the non-offending parent
  2. Partnering with the non-offending parent as the default position
  3. Intervening with the perpetrator to reduce risk and harm to the child
🧩 4 days · Practitioners

CORE Training

The skills-based foundation for domestic abuse–informed practice, across assessment, interviewing and engagement, documentation, and case planning. 22 hours of learning, in person or live remote (four full days or eight half days).

$1,200 per person
👋 1 day · Whole team

Safe & Together Overview

A one-day experiential introduction to the Model for everyone in an organisation. Covers the principles and critical components, the perpetrator pattern–based approach, and recognising survivor strengths.

$250 per person
🧭 2–3 days · Leaders

Supervisor & Manager Training

For supervisors and managers who have completed CORE Training. Builds the skills to support workers to apply a perpetrator pattern–based approach in their casework and supervision.

$900 per person
🌱 Ongoing · After training

Community of Practice

Facilitated sessions that help practitioners embed Safe & Together in everyday casework after training, through case discussion, shared learning, and peer support.

Ask us for pricing

Booking Safe & Together training. Group bookings welcome. We deliver in-house for your organisation or as community cohorts across lutruwita/Tasmania, so ask us for a group quote. Community rates are available for not-for-profits and community organisations. Please allow at least 30 days’ notice to book a date.

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Why train with a Tassie local?

The price you see is the price you pay

We know Safe & Together training is a real investment, and budgets are tight. But the course fee is only part of the story. When training means flying a trainer in from the mainland, or sending your staff across Bass Strait, the hidden costs add up fast. Our rates are in line with what Safe & Together CORE costs elsewhere in Australia, and because we're based in Hobart, there are no extras on top.

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Flying a trainer in

Your organisation usually covers the trainer's flights, accommodation across a four-day course, meals and travel time, and your dates get locked in around flight schedules.

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Sending staff to the mainland

Return flights for every participant, four or more nights' accommodation, meals, travel days out of the office, and backfill while your team is away. For many teams, that costs more than the course itself.

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Training with us in Hobart

No flights. No accommodation. Your staff sleep in their own beds and are back at work the next morning. We can run CORE as four full days or eight half days, so your service stays covered.

  • Support doesn't fly home. We're here after the training for follow-up, practice support and questions as your team puts the Model to work.
  • Tasmanian context. Examples grounded in Tasmanian services, systems and the current family violence reforms, not someone else's state.
  • Your money stays in Tasmania. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, our surplus goes back into the community through the Tasmanian Online Lions Club Safer Families Project.
  • Group bookings and community rates. Bring a whole team or join a community cohort, with community rates for not-for-profits.
Ask us for a group quote

Safe & Together™ is a trademark of the Safe & Together Institute. Grace & Grit delivers Safe & Together training as an Institute Partner Agency.

Training programs

Built for people doing
the hardest work.

Alongside our Safe & Together training suite, we offer programs that build on the same perpetrator pattern–based, child-centred foundations.

All programs are available as open cohorts or in-house for your team, with grant-funded delivery for rural, regional, and remote communities currently in development. Mix and match to build a tailored workforce development plan.

🛡️ 2 days · Practice

Family Violence Practice

Practical, practice-grounded training in victim-centred family violence response. Safety planning, perpetrator accountability, working with children, understanding coercive control, and risk assessment aligned with the ANROWS National Risk Assessment Principles, including recognised high-risk factors such as non-fatal strangulation and separation.

🎯 2 days · Leadership

Supervision & Leadership

Building reflective supervision cultures for team leaders, managers, and senior practitioners. Supervision models, psychological safety, vicarious trauma, and quality assurance in complex practice environments.

🌱 Ongoing · CoP Model

Communities of Practice

Facilitated communities of practice for sustained learning and peer support beyond initial training, including our Safe & Together Community of Practice. Structured, evidence-informed, and customisable to your team's context and practice focus.

🧠 Half-day · Awareness

Trauma-Informed Practice

A practical introduction to trauma-informed frameworks for community workers. The six core principles, what they look like in everyday practice, and how to implement them across your organisation.

📋 Half-day · Applied

Mandatory Reporting

Practical mandatory reporting training grounded in Tasmanian legislation. Who is required to report, what to report, how to report, and how to document — for all workers in child-related settings.

🤖 Half-day · Workshop

AI in the Workplace — Safely

Practical, plain-English guidance on using AI tools in community services without compromising client confidentiality, professional obligations, or organisational policy. Relevant for all staff levels.

🪶 Flexible · Cultural Safety

First Nations Cultural Safety

Facilitated by co-founder Marg Cranney — 40 years of experience in cultural safety education, curriculum design, and research conducted in partnership with First Nations communities. Grounded in self-determination and local community context, not generic compliance.

✨ Bite-sized · Series

Bite-Sized Practice Sessions

60–90 minute deep-dives for time-poor teams. Topics include: understanding coercive control, engaging fathers in child protection, MARAM alignment, risk assessment in practice using the National Risk Assessment Principles, and more. Ask about our current menu.

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Grant-funded training for rural, regional & remote communities

We're actively working to deliver grant-funded training to communities across lutruwita/Tasmania — including King Island, Flinders Island, and the West Coast — where access to specialist professional development has historically been limited. Talk to us about what might be possible for your community or organisation.

Our purpose

Training that gives back.

Grace & Grit Training is a registered not-for-profit social enterprise. Every training dollar we earn is reinvested into the community sector — through subsidised programs, free practitioner resources, and grant-funded training we're working to bring to communities that need it most.

As a Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency, we sit at the intersection of family violence, First Nations self-determination, and workforce development — because the work doesn't fit neatly into boxes, and neither should the training.

Talk to us about your team
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Combined years of experience

Between our two founders — across government, community sector, research, and education.

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Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency

Tanya is a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer (CORE, Overview, and Supervisor & Manager), delivering the full training suite through Grace & Grit.

NFP

Registered not-for-profit social enterprise

Surplus funds are earmarked for subsidising community programs, free resources, and grant-funded training initiatives we're working to establish.

About us

Real practitioners.
Real experience.

Grace & Grit Training was founded by two practitioners who got tired of attending training that had never been in the room. We built the training we wished existed.

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Tanya Brooks-Cooper

Co-Founder · Lead Trainer & Facilitator

Tanya has 34 years of cross-sector experience spanning child protection, family violence, youth justice, disability, community development, media, and government policy — across Queensland and Tasmania. She started in the sector at 18 and has never really left.

Tanya is a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer, holding CORE, Overview, and Supervisor & Manager credentials, and leads Grace & Grit's Safe & Together training as an Institute Partner Agency. She has also co-facilitated a Safe & Together Community of Practice.

Tanya brings a national voice to her work as a member of the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission's national Lived Experience Advisory Council, which advises the Commission on policy, systems and services across Australia. Closer to home, she is the volunteer Tasmanian State Coordinator for Hope in a Suitcase.

In April 2026, Tanya appeared before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs in a personal capacity, giving evidence on domestic, family, and sexual violence and suicide.

Her career spans: Practice Lead on the Stronger Families and Safe Kids reform Leadership Team; Communities for Children program management across four Tasmanian regions (The Salvation Army); Cape York Partnership under Noel Pearson; DIYDG founding support in Cairns; Cairns Regional Council Youth Engagement programs; community radio; board roles with YNOT (Youth Network of Tasmania); and the Tasmanian Online Lions Club Safer Families Project.

Tanya holds a BA (Human Services) from James Cook University, where she was Student Union President. She is also co-writer of the ABC television series Total Control with Aaron Fa'aoso.

Certified S&T Trainer Parliamentary Record 2026 National LEAC Member BA Human Services (JCU) SFSK Practice Lead SCHADS Level 6 ABC Total Control (co-writer) 34 Years Experience
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Marg Cranney

Co-Founder · Facilitator, Researcher & Cultural Safety Trainer

Marg brings more than 40 years of experience as a facilitator, researcher, trainer, and curriculum developer. She has worked extensively in cultural safety, education, strategic planning, and community development — including research and curriculum partnerships with First Nations communities — in Australia and internationally. She started her consultancy, Marg Cranney & Associates, in 1998 and has been in independent practice ever since.

A former AIATSIS Research Fellow, Marg was the principal researcher on the concept study for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre — commissioned research supporting First Nations-led leadership infrastructure. She co-wrote the Australian Government PEPA Mentoring Guide, and her research has directly shaped national policy and practice frameworks.

Marg's curriculum design work spans government agencies, community organisations, and education providers. Her approach is grounded in self-determination, community authority, and the principle that training designed without community is training that doesn't stick — a philosophy she and Tanya share completely.

She is President of the Tasmanian Online Lions Club Safer Families Project — the community initiative that Grace & Grit's surplus funds directly support. She brings to every room deep cultural safety expertise, cultural humility, and a lifetime of relationships built through genuine partnership.

AIATSIS Research Fellow 40+ Years Experience Cultural Safety Specialist MCA Principal (est. 1998) Published Researcher Govt. Commissioned Research Curriculum Designer Lions Safer Families (President)
Coming soon

Learn from anywhere: Grace & Grit online courses

Not everyone can get to a training room, especially in regional and island communities or on a rotating roster. So we're building a suite of self-paced online courses you can do from anywhere, in your own time.

Co-founder Marg Cranney, who brings more than 40 years of curriculum design experience, is writing them now, using the same practical, plain-English approach as our workshops.

Register your interest
  • Self-paced, so you can learn around shifts, caseloads and family life
  • Practical tools you can use at work straight away
  • Made for regional, rural and island teams who can't always travel
  • Built by Tasmanian practitioners who have done the work
  • Be the first to know — register your interest and we'll tell you when the first courses launch
Resources

Practical tools for
people doing the work.

Built by practitioners, for practitioners. Free resources download instantly. Paid toolkits are sent within one business day.

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Tasmanian Support Services

Crisis lines and community services for FV, mental health and legal support. Print it, share it, keep it at your desk.

Free PDF — screen + print 🌿

Practitioner Self-Care Pocket Guide

Body-forward tools: 60-second check-in, grounding techniques, body check, 3-breath transition, forward-focus frame, boundary checklist and supervision prompts. 2 pages, 2 versions.

Coming Soon 🧠

Moral Injury & Vicarious Trauma Toolkit

Definitions, scored signals checklist, 5 moral injury reflection questions, manager response guide, and organisational conditions that worsen MI. For practitioners and managers in FV and community services.

🕔 Coming soon
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Coercive Control: What's Changing

All Australian jurisdictions, Tasmania's first tranche FVA reforms, and what it means for identification, documentation, risk assessment and safety planning. Current May 2026.

🕔 Coming soon
Available Now 🎓

Supervision That Sees the Whole Picture

24-slide PowerPoint + 6-tool Word toolkit + 40-page e-course workbook. For managers and supervisors in FV and community services. Built from 34 years of frontline practice.

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Free resources are free to share with credit to Grace & Grit.

Grace & Grit — What We're Up To

We don't just talk about change. We make it.

Here's what Grace & Grit has been doing beyond the training room.

Grace & Grit Training and Consulting signage

Our sign at the Canada vs USA Ice Hockey Classic, MyState Bank Arena, July 2026 — Hobart's first ever international ice hockey. 🏒

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Now delivering

Safe & Together training across Tasmania

Grace & Grit is now a Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency, delivering CORE, Overview, and Supervisor & Manager training to organisations and community groups across lutruwita/Tasmania, with community rates for not-for-profits.

See the Safe & Together suite
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Advocacy

Tasmania Family Violence Act Review

We've made a detailed submission to the Tasmanian Government's review of the Family Violence Act 2004 — calling for stronger perpetrator accountability, survivor-centred legislation, and a workforce that actually knows what domestic violence looks like. Because good law needs good practice behind it.

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Available Now

Supervision That Sees the Whole Picture

Our downloadable toolkit and e-course for managers and supervisors in family violence, child protection, and community services. Reflective supervision, vicarious trauma, coercive control, parallel process — built from 34 years of frontline practice. Available now at graceandgrittraining.com.au.

Get it at graceandgrittraining.com.au →

A national voice, with Tasmanian roots

National advisory work · since 2026

Member, national Lived Experience Advisory Council

In 2026, Tanya was appointed to the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission's national Lived Experience Advisory Council. Established in 2023 under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032, the Council brings together people with lived and living experience to advise the Commission on improving policy, systems and services across Australia.

For the organisations we work with, it means the practice we teach in Tasmanian training rooms is shaped by, and feeds into, the national conversation.

Federal parliament

Evidence to a House of Representatives committee

In April 2026, Tanya gave evidence on domestic, family and sexual violence to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, as the only individually invited non-agency practitioner on the panel.

Policy & submissions

Shaping national and state reform

We've made submissions to the Second Action Plan consultation under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032, and to Tasmania's Family Violence Reforms Bill 2026.

Community

Hope in a Suitcase Tasmania

Tanya is the volunteer Tasmanian State Coordinator for Hope in a Suitcase, which gives children entering out-of-home care a suitcase of their own, packed with new essentials and comfort items.

Prevention

16 Days of Activism 2026

We're proud to support 16 Days of Activism in Tasmania this year, under the theme “Safety shouldn't be a privilege”, with a focus on primary prevention.

Community leadership

Lions and community boards

Marg is President and Tanya is Secretary of the Tasmanian Online Lions Club, and Tanya sits on the board of YNOT (Youth Network of Tasmania).

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We Love Local

G&G also runs We Love Local Tasmania — a free community directory celebrating Tasmanian small businesses, makers, markets, cellar doors, and local legends. Visit graceandgrittasmania.com.au →

Get in touch

Let's talk about
what your team needs.

Whether you're planning a Safe & Together CORE cohort, a single training day, or a whole-of-organisation workforce development strategy — we'd love a conversation. We're based in Hobart but work statewide, remotely, and beyond.

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Rural, regional & remote communities: We have grant funding on the table and we're actively looking for partner organisations. If you're in an area with limited access to specialist training, please reach out — let's see what we can do together.

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The fastest way to get things moving is to drop us an email with a brief note about what you're looking for — your team size, context, and timing. We'll come back to you promptly.

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