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Provide expertise and leadership on all matters relating to family violence and the family violence service system in the Barwon Area
Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework
MARAM Framework
The Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework provides policy guidance to organisations that have responsibilities in assessing and managing family violence risk to ensure that services are effectively identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk.
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MARAM Framework on a page
This document depicts the four pillars and 10 responsibilities that comprise the MARAM Framework.
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MARAM Practice Guides - Chapter Summaries
The MARAM Practice Guides Chapter Summaries provides a high-level overview and introduction of the key concepts in the Foundation Knowledge Guide and the Responsibilities for Practice Guides 1-10.
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The MARAM Practice Guide FAQs section provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the practice guide.
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Link to all MARAM resources and practice guides
View the ‘MARAM Training Ready Reckoner’ for a snapshot of training requirements.
View the MARAM Practice Guides 6 minute video which steps through the purpose of the MARAM practice guides as a supporting resource for professionals and provides an overview of their structure. The video can be found at the Victorian Government link under ‘Practice guide resources and tools.’
Organisational embedding overview
An organisational embedding guide has been developed to support organisational leaders in the process of aligning to MARAM. The guide includes specific key actions and activities organisational leaders can undertake to determine responsibilities for staff across their organisation.
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Link to MARAM Organisational Embedding Guide
The guide is made up of three core tools that set out suggested steps for organisational alignment. The guide provides practical examples and aligns with existing MARAM resources.
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MARAM Foundation Knowledge Guide
The Foundation Knowledge Guide focuses on the legislative context, roles and interactions with the service system, risk factors, key concepts for practice and presentations of risk across different age groups and Aboriginal and diverse communities.
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Perpetrator-focused MARAM Practice Guides and tools
The Readiness Checklist (Perpetrator Guidance) provides high-level steps for organisational leaders to align to the MARAM perpetrator guidance, prior to the release of training in 2022. This can be found at the Victorian Government link under ‘Organisational focused resources.’
The MARAM Responsibilities decision guide provides guidance on decision making on assigning roles and responsibilities and core reading attached to the responsibilities. This can be found at the Victorian Government link under ‘Organisational focused resources.’
Download the combined Foundation Knowledge Guide and MARAM Practice Guides – Working With Adult People Using Violence
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Or, visit the Victorian Government website link to download individual ‘Responsibilities’ from the MARAM Practice Guides – Working With Adult People Using Violence.
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Information Sharing Schemes
Family Violence Information Sharing Guidelines
The FVISS Guidelines outlines how authorised organisations can share of information to assess and manage family violence risk.
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Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme Guidelines summary
The FVISS Guidelines outlines how authorised organisations can share of information to assess and manage family violence risk.
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Link to Victorian Government Family Violence information sharing webpage
Child Information Sharing Scheme Ministerial Guidelines
The Guidelines outline how authorised organisations can share information to promote a child’s wellbeing or safety.
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Child Information Sharing Scheme summary
Link to Victorian Government child information sharing scheme webpage
Link to Victorian Government information sharing schemes webpage
Information Sharing Entity List User Guide
Barwon Information Sharing
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Family Violence Reforms
Ending Family Violence – Victoria’s Plan for Change (10-year plan)
Ending Family Violence is the Victorian Government’s 10-year family violence reform plan. The plan details how the government will deliver the 227 recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Family Violence.
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Family Violence Rolling Action Plan 2017-2020
The Rolling Action Plan focuses on the first phase of key initiatives and actions of the Ending Family Violence 10 Year Plan.
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Family Violence Rolling Action Plan 2021-2024
Building from Strength - 10-year Industry Plan for Family Violence Prevention and Response
Building from Strength outlines the Victorian Government’s long-term vision and plan for the workforces that prevent and respond to family violence.
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Strengthening the Foundations: First Rolling Action Plan 2019-22
Strengthening the Foundations is the first of three Rolling Action Plans that work towards achieving the long-term vision for the workforces that intersect with family violence, as outlined in Building from Strength: 10-Year Industry Plan for Family Violence Prevention and Response.
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Responding to Family Violence Capabilities Framework
The Framework describes the knowledge and skills needed to respond to family violence.
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Family Violence Workforce Census
The first census took place in 2017 and the second in 2019/20. The report from the first census is available here.
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Dhelk Dja - Safe Our Way
Dhelk Dja: Safe Our Way – Strong Culture, Strong Peoples, Strong Families, is an Aboriginal-led 10-year agreement to address family violence in Aboriginal communities.
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The Nargneit Birrang Framework
Nargneit Birrang provides a framework to guide the flexible design, funding, implementation and evaluation of Aboriginal-led holistic healing programs for family violence in Victoria.
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Everybody matters: Inclusion and Equity Statement
Everybody Matters: Inclusion and Equity Statement sets out the Victorian Government’s long-term vision for the creation of a family violence system that is more inclusive, responsive and accessible to all Victorians.
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Link to Victorian Government Orange Door resources
Find all of The Orange Door resources.
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Link to Victorian Government interventions for people who use violence
Programs to intervene on people who use violence and manage risk to victims of family violence
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Expert Advisory Committee on Perpetrator Interventions final report
This is the final report of the Expert Advisory Committee on Perpetrator Interventions which was established to advise the Victorian government on the suite of family violence perpetrator interventions that should ensure the safety of more women and children.
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Free from Violence – Victoria’s Prevention Strategy
The Free from violence strategy is Victoria’s plan to break the cycle of family violence and violence against women.
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Free from Violence First Action Plan 2018-2021
The first action plan details the actions the Victorian Government will take towards ending family violence. These actions establish the key structures needed to support long-term change in the prevention of family violence.
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Preventing Family Violence and Violence Against Women Capability Framework
The Framework describes the knowledge and skills needed to prevent family violence. The framework is a tool for building family violence capability in all workforces that intersect with family violence.
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Family Violence Outcomes Framework
The FVOF was developed in consultation with metropolitan and regional sector representatives and first published in the 10-Year Plan.
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Related Reforms & Strategies
Safe and Strong – A Victorian Gender Equality Strategy
Safe and Strong is Victoria’s first Gender Equality Strategy. The Strategy considers six settings for state-wide action and early actions focus on change in schools, workplaces, community groups, sporting associations and the media.
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Change the Story
Change the story is the national framework for a consistent and integrated approach to preventing violence against women and their children in Australia.
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Family Violence Data
Crimes Statistics Agency – Family Violence Data Portal
The Family Violence data Portal provides an updated set of Family Violence Database dashboards containing interactive visualisations of family violence data, detailed Excel data tables, interactive infographics with key statistics on family violence in geographic areas and explanatory materials and definitions for the information in these pages. Data can be searched by local government area.
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Barwon Family Violence and Sexual Assault Data Snapshot 2019
Published in 2019, this report presents a baseline summary of publicly available statistics related to family violence and sexual violence in the Barwon region in recent years.
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Women’s Health Atlas
The Victorian Women’s Health Atlas has been developed by Women’s Health Victoria as a tool to assist in the identification of gender impacts on key health areas. The Atlas provides a coordinated State approach to enable comparison between LGAs, regions and the state.
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Specialist Family Violence Sector Resources
Code of Practice: Principles and Standards for Specialist Family Violence Services for Victim-Survivors
This second edition of the Code developed by Domestic Violence Victoria articulates principles and standards to guide consistent quality service provision for victim-survivors accessing specialist family violence services in Victoria.
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Translated Family Violence Resources
Find a range of translated Family Violence Resources:
- InTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence
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Read More… - Chinese Language Family Violence Resources available through Regional Family Violence Partnership website
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Translated copies of the Family Safety and Support Pocket Resource developed by The City of Greater Geelong.
Translated copies are now available in:
Arabic, Dari, Hindi, Karen, Simplified Chinese, Swahili and Tamil.
Click here to download from COGG website.Printed copies are also available.
Family Safety and Support Pocket Resource
The City of Greater Geelong updated the ‘Family Safety and Support Pocket Resource’ during 2022.
Click here to download from COGG website.
Printed copies are also available.
Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls
Melissa Scaia from Global Rights for Women is the author of this piece of work for the Australian Government.
Of note, Melissa will be presenting at Geelong Regional Library as part of the Duluth Model Masterclass on March 22 and 23, 2023.
Click here to download resource.
The Barwon Area Integrated Family Violence Committee acknowledges the First Nations Peoples and traditional custodians of the land and waterways across Barwon, the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation, and the Gulidjan and Gadubanud people of the Eastern Maar Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in the Barwon Area, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. We recognise the leadership of Aboriginal communities and Elders in Victoria in preventing and addressing family violence, and improving outcomes for Aboriginal people, children, families and communities.
