Protect, Share, Support: Understanding Family Violence in Disability Service | The Centre

Protect, Share, Support: Understanding Family Violence in Disability Service shares the best practices from Victoria’s framework as they apply to working with people with disability, including guidance around information sharing and privacy for organisations that are not part of Victoria’s family violence information sharing framework.

It draws on the best practices and latest knowledge about family violence, as reflected in Victoria’s Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) framework. Topics covered:

• What is family violence? How our understanding of the spectrum of family violence has evolved over time.
• Understand the nature of coercive control and cumulative harm, particularly as it may occur for people with disability.
• Using a disability and trauma-informed lens, we examine best practices for responding safely and respectfully to disclosures.
• We share guidance for sharing information and seeking consultation from services that can support people experiencing family violence.
• We share best practices for documenting and handling client concerns.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the nature of family violence and the ways it can impact people with disability
• Apply the best practices for responding to signs of family violence or to disclosures of family violence
• Understand the best practices for recording observations and disclosures of family violence and for collaborating and consulting with family violence specialist services

Intended audience

Workers in the disability sector who may encounter clients experiencing family violence but whose organisations are not formally a part of the MARAM framework.