MARAM Collaborative Practice & Information Sharing Training

MARAM – Brief and Intermediate

This training is suitable for professionals whose purpose of intervention is linked to family violence but not directly focused on family violence. You may be engaging with people in crisis situations, or at high risk of experiencing or using family violence. This training focuses on working with victim survivors.

-MARAM for AOD, homelessness and designated mental health workforces

This training is aimed at professionals whose purpose of intervention is linked to family violence but not directly focused. (Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare)

MARAM – Identification and Screening

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 environment and are in a position to identify or screen for family violence. This training focuses on working with victim survivors.

MARAM Comprehensive Family Violence Specialist -Renewing Practice from CRAF to MARAM

This training is only suitable for experienced family violence specialists who have extensive experience, and who have previously completed specialist CRAF training. This training focuses on working with victim survivors. This training is for professionals who work in a specialist capacity across the integrated service system.

-MARAM Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Management Module

This training is suitable for new family violence specialists and/or those who have not previously completed specialist CRAF training. This training focuses on working with victim survivors. This training is for professionals who work in a specialist capacity across the integrated service system.

MARAM Leading Alignment training

This training is suitable for organisational leaders‚ CEOs, Directors or senior managers across all organisations/ agencies prescribed under the MARAM. The training promotes an understanding of the MARAM Framework including key strategies and requirements such as practice, policies and procedures necessary to align with MARAM.

MARAM Collaborative Practice training is suitable for all professionals and focuses on collaborative practice and the foundational aspects of MARAM. It will enable practitioners to contribute to risk assessment and collaborate for ongoing risk assessment and management.

New MARAM training modules are available for Department of Families Fairness and Housing, Department of Health workforces and sector funded organisations on the WOVG website via https://elearn.childlink.com.au/  Training includes a Family Violence Foundation eLearn, Screening and Identification and Brief and Intermediate courses, and a range of training that has been developed through the Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) initiative.

The MARAM Collaborative Practice training focuses on both collaborative practice and the foundational aspects of MARAM that enable collaboration. The training enables professionals to contribute to risk assessment and collaborate for ongoing risk management, through  respectful and sensitive engagement with victim survivors, information sharing, referral and secondary consultation.

The training is available to all professionals who respond to family violence in the Bayside Peninsula Region. While relevant to professionals from prescribed and non-prescribed organisations, given the availability of other MARAM training at the time of its release, the training is best suited to professionals from Tiers 2, 3 and 4 of the Victorian Government Responding to Family Violence Capability Framework (2017). This training is designed for practitioners, but is also useful for team leaders and managers who are responsible for embedding MARAM within organisations and through external partnerships. Organisations should be guided by Family Safety Victoria resources in determining the relevant roles, responsibilities and training requirements of their staff.

Participants who attend the training will be able to:

• Describe the MARAM Framework including responsibilities that drive collaborative practice across the service system
• Apply the four elements of structured professional judgement to their practice
• Outline how information sharing can enhance collaborative practice
• Outline their responsibilities under the MARAM and information sharing reforms
• Describe what collaborative practice is and differentiate between practice, organisational and system enablers
• Apply intersectionality to enhance practice by examining personal privileges and oppressions
• Explain how to use collaborative practice to maintain perpetrator visibility
• Apply knowledge of evidence based risk factors
• Plan strategies to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all victim survivors including children
• Develop a collaborative risk management plan
• Implement effective processes for secondary consultation and referral within the local service system.

The training aligns with the MARAM Foundation Knowledge Guide and the following responsibilities:

• Responsibility 1: Respectfully and sensitively engage with service users
• Responsibilities 5 & 6: Information sharing with other services (as authorised by legislation), secondary consultation and referral
• Responsibilities 9 &10: Contribute to coordinated collaborative risk management including ongoing assessment.

No. This is NOT risk assessment training. You will also need to attend other MARAM training relevant to your role. MARAM training will be delivered by government departments (‘Brief & Intermediate’ and ‘Screening & Identification’) and by Safe+Equal (Comprehensive and Leading Alignment).

Yes. The MARAM Collaborative Practice training sits alongside the other MARAM modules. It does not replicate the content of the other sessions, but enhances professional’s understanding of collaborative practice under the MARAM.

Yes. In attending this training, it is expected you will have:

• Read the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework: Foundation Knowledge.
• Watched Helping end family violence – the Information Sharing Schemes and MARAM film (3