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: 

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.

Read more here

The Department of Health has published a new factsheet for health professionals with advice about secondary consultations and referrals under the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework.

Anyone that works in a health service can seek advice and support about how to recognise and respond to family violence via a secondary consultation. You can also get advice about making a referral to get the right support for a person you may be working with. The factsheet includes:

The factsheet can be found on the Department of Health family violence webpage along with other resources about MARAM and information sharing.

Strengthening Victoria’s family violence risk assessment and information sharing: Understanding effective capability building to support MARAM implementation through the experiences of victim-survivors. 

Are you a practitioner in Victoria working in one of the following sectors? 

This is an invitation for you to participate in this project that seeks to understand what works in ensuring workplace policy and practice align with Victoria’s Multi Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) framework. You are invited to participate in a 90-minute focus group with other practitioners from across their sector, where you will engage in a roundtable discussion to share your own experiences and insights in relation to family violence risk assessment and management. This will take place online. 

If you are interested in participating, or would like to know more about the project, please email Dr Adrienne Byrt at [email protected]

In partnership with Swinburne University, Safe+Equal are working on a project by Family Safety Victoria (FSV), in Phase 1 of its Family Violence Research Grants Program.

Safe+Equal’s project seeks to understand what works in ensuring workplace policy and practice align with Victoria’s Multi Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) framework. MARAM underpins the coordinated response to identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk across various sectors. The project will produce insights into how workplace capability in alignment and practice can be uplifted.

Safe+Equal are seeking approximately 100 practitioners from across our target sectors:

You are invited to participate in a 90-minute focus group with other practitioners from across their sector. This will take place online. Participants will engage in a roundtable discussion to discuss their own experiences and insights in relation to family violence risk assessment and management. Your participation is completely voluntary.

If you are interested in taking part, please email [email protected] and your interest will be forwarded on to the Swinburne research team. They will be in touch to arrange your involvement in the project.

In 2022, the Centre for Innovative Justice (CIJ) at RMIT University was contracted by Family Safety Victoria to contribute to the development of a MARAM Practice Guidance regarding Adolescents Using Family Violence.

In the context of this project, the term ‘Adolescents Using Family Violence’ (AFV) was scoped to incorporate young people using violence or harm across a range of personal relationships, both within their family of origin, wider family networks and intimate relationships.

Similarly, the term was also scoped to include harmful sexual behaviour, which is otherwise generally addressed as a standalone issue within the literature, given that it requires a particularly specialised response.

As part of this project, the CIJ was asked to conduct a review of the applicable evidence base. The relevant evidence base is necessarily broad, given the spectrum of behaviour and relationship contexts contemplated within the project’s focus.

Click here to read the recently released research paper from RMIT, on the effects of the MARAM practice tool in relation to adolescents.

Over the last couple of years we’ve asked thousands of practitioners what were their biggest practice challenges now that MARAM is part of our everyday work. Based on the sector’s answers, the Centre is developing a series of free practice-oriented workshops called  “Putting MARAM into Practice”. Starting in early September, the first 3 topics in the series are:

Advanced Case Notes in a Family Violence Setting

Maintaining Client Engagement in a Family Violence Setting

Advanced Risk Assessment and Safety Planning 

Register your interest here

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