Flexible Support Packages for Family Violence
Flexible Support Packages for Family Violence
Flexible Support Packages (FSP) aim to deliver personalised and holistic responses to assist adult and child victim survivors experiencing family violence to transition from crisis and establish long-term sustainable arrangements to improve their safety, wellbeing, and independence in recovery from family violence.
Individualised packages provide flexible brokerage to victim survivors to purchase a range of tailored and practical supports based on their case management/support plan. This may include counselling, wellbeing costs, education, employment related costs, financial counselling, transport, housing stability and establishment costs, and other practical or material needs.
For further information regarding FSP intended outcomes, eligibility, and suitability, please refer to Family Safety Victoria Family Violence Flexible Support Packages (FSPs) Program Guidelines
FSP Portal
Family Safety Victoria (FSV) has developed an online portal that will streamline the application, assessment, approval, and acquittal of FSPs. It will simplify the process for practitioners applying for FSPs on behalf of victim survivors and will support provider agencies to more effectively and efficiently administer the FSP program across the state.
The portal leverages the technology behind the SmartyGrants grant administration system, operated by OurCommunity. FSV is pleased to be partnering with a social enterprise in the delivery of this system
Applicant agencies/practitioners needing assistance with registration and/or for all other technical support, please contact: [email protected]
The Salvation Army
| The Salvation Army | |
| Phone | (03) 9257 9600 |
| [email protected] | |
| Eligibility | Victim-survivors are eligible for FSPs if they meet all of the following eligibility criteria: • have experienced family violence that has current or ongoing impact. • are planning to leave an abusive situation or have the perpetrator removed from the home. • are receiving support from a specialist family violence practitioner or other support service practitioner that is: o prescribed as Tier 1, 2 or 3 under MARAM requiring either Intermediate or Comprehensive risk assessment and risk management, and o able to provide continuous support, including ongoing risk assessment and risk management to the victim survivor until the FSP (and/or PSI) process is complete. • have had an Intermediate or Comprehensive MARAM risk assessment and safety plan recently completed • have a case management/support plan in place which identifies the way in which a flexible support package would support the victim-survivor/s. FSPs will not be accessible to victim-survivors who wish to continue their domestic living arrangements with the perpetrator of the abuse, with the exception of victim-survivors living with adolescents who use violence and Aboriginal victim-survivors. Children have the right to their own FSP, especially should the parent’s package be higher than $10,000 when including the children’s funding needs. A separate FSP application for a child should also be considered if the child requires more than two or three items to support their own needs. Siblings’ needs cannot be included in another child’s package and need to be applied through either their own or the parent’s FSP application. |
Thorne Harbour Health
Thorne Harbour Health is funded to provide flexible support packages to members of the LGBTI community who are seeking to leave or have recently left intimate partner or family violence circumstances.
| Thorne Harbour Health | |
| Phone | (03) 9865 6700 |
| [email protected] |
inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence
inTouch is funded to provide flexible support packages to CALD women across Victoria.
| inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence | |
| Phone | (03) 9413 6500 |
VACCA
| VACCA | |
| Phone | (03) 9108 3500 |
Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre
For crisis FSP contact Safe Steps
| Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre | |
| Phone | 1800 015 188 |
| [email protected] |
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