DATES RELEASED FOR APRIL & MAY 2024
Do you work with adults using family violence in your role? This new MARAM offering from Safe and Equal is suitable for all professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service. This training focuses on working with adults using family violence.
During this training, you will learn to identify indicators for a person likely to be using family violence by observation of common narratives and behaviours. You will also learn how to respond according to your roles and responsibilities and will be supported to use the Identification Tool.
Who can attend?
All professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service.
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No to Violence is working in partnership with Family Safety Victoria (FSV) and Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) to deliver MARAM training modules for practitioners who need to have an applied understanding of MARAM and information sharing in their roles when working with adults using family violence.
MARAM sets out the responsibilities of different workforces in identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk across the family violence and broader service system.
There will be three levels of training released over 2023-24:
- Identification
- Intermediate
- Comprehensive
Depending on your role within an organisation, you will learn about different responsibilities and practice guides to keep perpetrators in view and accountable and to promote the safety of victim survivors of family violence.
The MARAM responsibilities decision guide provides an overview of how you may determine which level of responsibilities you hold.
Identification module now available
No To Violence has announced that training is now available for those workers who hold Identification responsibilities under the MARAM framework.
This training is suitable for all professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off, episodic or ongoing service. This training focuses on working with adults using family violence.
During this training, practitioners will learn to identify indicators for a person likely to be using family violence by observation of common narratives and behaviours. Participants will learn how to respond according to their roles and responsibilities and will be supported to use the Identification Tool.
In the realm of family dynamics and behaviour change, few initiatives have been as impactful as the Caring Dads program in Australia. This groundbreaking program has been making waves across the world for its innovative approach to addressing a deeply sensitive issue – assisting fathers who have used violence in rewriting their stories, to forge healthy relationships with their children.
This intervention is underpinned by the belief that men who have used violence are capable of transformation and can become nurturing, responsible caregivers. By providing participants with a nonjudgmental, empathetic group setting for introspection and growth across 17 weeks, this approach paves the way for remarkable change.
This training runs from 9:30am – 3:30pm. It is an interactive online training module that assists professionals to effectively identify, understand, and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.
This training is open to any professional who may interact with men who use intimate partner violence, but where the focus of their practice is not behaviour change work specifically. Family violence professionals who support victim survivors are also welcome to attend.
For queries, or to book an in-house fee-for-service session with your teams or regions, please email [email protected]
No to Violence welcomes the $8.5 million funding for initiatives aimed at early intervention to prevent domestic, family and sexual violence announced in the Federal Budget.
No to Violence Chief Executive Officer Jacqui Watt welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to holding men who choose to use violence and abuse to account.
The $8.5 million over four years includes developing a perpetrator risk assessment framework for frontline service providers, extending the Mensline Changing for Good Service and developing a national perpetrator referral database.
This funding forms part of an additional $589.3 million for women’s safety and follows its initial $1.7 billion investment over six years in the October Budget.
Some of our member services (specialist domestic and family violence services) have asked us about the new edit and unsending features that were announced at Apple’s WWDC event on 6 June 2022, relating to iMessaging on Apple devices. Specifically, the ability to edit within 15 minutes and unsend messages within 2 minutes, as well as retrieving messages you have deleted within the last 30 to 40 days.
WESNET members and other domestic and family violence (DFV) services quickly recognised how such features could be misused by people choosing to misuse technology to abuse, but the news here is not as worrisome as it might appear at first glance.
Sending harassing, abusive, controlling, and/or threatening messages is probably the most common form of tech abuse we currently see in Australia. Findings of our 2020 National Survey of Technology and Domestic Violence in Australia showed that a whopping 61% of frontline workers reported seeing text messaging as the type of technology most commonly used by perpetrators to abuse – with a further 36.5% reporting they saw it often.
So, one could argue that tools that enable an abuser to edit or unsend a toxic message might interfere with a survivor’s capacity to document what’s going on.
Following the Launch of the State of Knowledge Report on Violence Perpetration webinar, the full report can now be accessed.
This report provides a focused examination of violence perpetration, in order to enhance national efforts to end domestic, family and sexual violence.
This report has been produced in response to the limited data and knowledge available on the perpetration of domestic, family, and sexual violence. The absence of robust and consistent information on perpetration limits our ability to effectively prevent and reduce this violence.
Click here to read full report
Today we launch the Men in focus practice guide, which offers practical steps to motivate men and boys to be part of creating a society that is safer, and more equal.
Following an extensive evidence review in 2019 that shows how harmful forms of masculinity contribute to driving men’s violence against women, our new guide aims to motivate and build rapport with men and boys.