Print - 2019-20 Census of workforces that intersect with family violence: Broader workforces summary results reports

Published by:: Family Safety Victoria
Date:: 23 June 2021

Alcohol and drug services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in alcohol and drug services.

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Alcohol and drug services summary report

Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Alcohol and Drug Services (n=215), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria.

The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Results presented as percentages throughout the report may not add up to 100% (particularly where displayed in chart form) due to rounding, or where participants were able to select more than one response.

Although the survey was an attempted census of all people in the broader workforce, to aid the interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey responses as though they have been obtained from a random sample of the workforce. Accordingly, the data presented in this document can be interpreted as having up to a +/- 10% margin of error at the 95% level of statistical confidence.

Gender
- 77% identify as female
- 23% identify as male
- 0% self-described.
Age
- 24% are aged 18-34 years
- 58% are aged 35-54 years
- 18% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 57% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 23% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 21% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 14% earned $91,000 or above
- 39% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 37% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 10% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 5% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 24% completed Year 12
- 29% completed Certificate I-IV
- 35% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 45% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 29% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 32% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 2% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 49% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 45% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 46% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 41% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 35% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 48% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 42% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 30% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 35% I haven't had sufficient training
- 34% There are not enough referral options
- 23% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 3% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 26% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
- 84% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.
Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence response
- collaboration with other service providers (61%)
- shadowing experienced practitioners (48%)
- further training or resources (41%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (54%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (42%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (37%)
- 72% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 82% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 30% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 17% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively.
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 61% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 59% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 58% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 2% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 44% Cost of study
- 43% Lack of time
- 38% Location of training facility
Furthermore
- 14% N/A – I have good access to training
- 1% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 2% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 1% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 1% do not experience work-related stress
- 79% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 21% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (83%)
- Vicarious trauma (53%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (53%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 95% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 56% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 3% No
Furthermore
- 61% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Ambulance services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in Ambulance services.

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Ambulance services summary report

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Ambulance Services (n=161), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria.

Results have been suppressed where the number of respondents is fewer than 10, and caution should be applied when interpreting results where the number of respondents is low. Care should also be taken with extrapolating results to the population. Results presented as percentages throughout the report may not add up to 100% (particularly where displayed in chart form) due to rounding, or where participants were able to select more than one response. Although the survey was an attempted census of all people in the broader workforce, to aid the interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey responses as though they have been obtained from a random sample of the workforce. Accordingly, the data presented in this document can be interpreted as having up to a +/- 10% margin of error at the 95% level of statistical confidence.

Gender
- 55% identify as female
- 45% identify as male
- 1% self-described.
Age
- 40% are aged 18-34 years
- 47% are aged 35-54 years
- 13% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 30% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 28% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 42% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 79% earned $91,000 or above
- 9% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 6% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 5% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 14% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 30% completed Year 12
- 33% completed Certificate I-IV
- 27% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 66% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 22% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 7% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 10% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 10% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 23% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 21% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 16% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 24% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 33% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 15% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence .
Top 3 barriers
- 68% I am not familiar with referral options
- 56% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 26% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
Furthermore
- 4% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 13% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
54% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- collaboration with other service providers (57%)
- improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (53%)
- shadowing experienced practitioners (38%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (41%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (39%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (29%)
- 70% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 71% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 14% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 6% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 63% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 55% Family violence risk assessment and risk management (CRAF)
- 54% family violence safety planning/Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 9% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 52% Not aware of any training that exists
- 39% Lack of time
- 28% Employer not able to support training and development
Furthermore
- 3% N/A – I have good access to training
- 3% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 4% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 0% do not experience work-related stress
- 65% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 35% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (80%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (53%)
- Vicarious trauma (39%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 88% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 45% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 11% No
Furthermore
- 53% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Broader community services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in broader community services.

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Broader community services summary report

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A combination of results for particular community services organisations (combination of several other subsets/reports) that includes results for individuals who indicated that they worked in:

Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation
Women's Health
Community Health
Dental and other Oral Health
Health Promotion
Children and Family Services
Out-of-home Care
Parenting Services
Alcohol or Other Drug Services
Community Mental Health Services
Housing/Homelessness
Youth Work
Disability Services
Counselling
Employment Services
LGBTIQ Services
Local Council/Local Government
Neighbourhood Houses
Older People (including elder abuse) Services
Policy, Research and Advocacy.

Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Broader Community Services (n=1,505), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Although this survey was an attempted census of all employees in the broader workforce, to aid in interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey data overall as though it is a quasi-random sample. However, it should be noted that accurate population estimates are not available for Broader Community Services due to additional organisation type categories being added into the survey (and subsequently into this report) based on advice received at the sector consultation stage. These additional categories were not accounted for when collating the population estimates, and therefore no confidence intervals may be provided.

Gender
- 85% identify as female
- 14% identify as male
- 1% self-described.
Age
- 28% are aged 18-34 years
- 50% are aged 35-54 years
- 23% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 53% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 23% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 24% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 17% earned $91,000 or above
- 34% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 33% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 15% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 9% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 23% completed Year 12
- 24% completed Certificate I-IV
- 31% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 46% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 20% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 28% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 44% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 26% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 41% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 41% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 30% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 48% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 43% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 33% There are not enough referral options
- 32% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 23% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 5% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 24% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
79% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (60%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (44%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (37%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (51%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (37%)
- Mentoring/Peer support (34%)
- 64% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 83% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 29% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 22% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 61% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 53% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 52% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 3% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 44% Lack of time
- 39% Cost of study
- 31% Location of training facility
Furthermore
- 11% N/A – I have good access to training
- 2% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 5% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- <1% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 1% do not experience work-related stress
- 69% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 30% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (81%)
- Vicarious trauma (43%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (42%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 91% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 55% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 7% No
Furthermore
- 61% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Children, families and child protection

Workforce census results for respondents who work in children, families and child protection services.

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Children, Families and Child Protection summary report

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report includes results for individuals who indicated that they worked in Children and Family Services, Child Protection, Out-of-home Care, or Parenting Services. This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Children, Families and Child Protection (n=416), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

The data presented in this report can be interpreted as having up to a +/- 5% margin of error at the 95% level of statistical confidence.

Gender
- 89% identify as female
- 10% identify as male
- 1% self-described.
Age
- 35% are aged 18-34 years
- 46% are aged 35-54 years
- 19% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 59% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 22% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 19% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 14% earned $91,000 or above
- 37% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 34% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 14% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 12% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 28% completed Year 12
- 28% completed Certificate I-IV
- 39% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 50% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 17% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 24% completed Postgraduate Degree
- <1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 60% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 30% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 51% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 56% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 40% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 59% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 54% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 29% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 37% There are not enough referral options
- 26% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 23% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
Furthermore
- 6% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 23% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
88% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (61%).
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (50%).
- Further training or resources (38%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (52%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (41%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (39%)
- 73% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 90% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 35% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 27% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 61% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 55% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 51% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 2% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 48% Lack of time
- 42% Cost of study
- 31% Location of training facility
Furthermore
- 10% N/A – I have good access to training
- <1% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 5%% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 1% do not experience work-related stress
- 65% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 35% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (85%)
- Vicarious trauma (48%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (37%)
Resistance or backlash
- 11% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 94% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 58% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 5% No
Furthermore
- 64% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Community health services

Workforce census results for respondents who work in community health services.

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Community health services summary report

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report includes results for individuals who indicated that they worked in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation, Women's Health, Community Health, Dental and other Oral Health, or Health Promotion.

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Community Health Services (n=328), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 87% identify as female
- 13% identify as male
- 1% self-described.
Age
- 21% are aged 18-34 years
- 50% are aged 35-54 years
- 28% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 47% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 26% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 27% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 13% earned $91,000 or above
- 31% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 40% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 16% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 6% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 19% completed Year 12
- 20% completed Certificate I-IV
- 23% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 47% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 24% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 31% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 37% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 23% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 38% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 38% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 44% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 38% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 29% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 28% There are not enough referral options
- 27% I am not familiar with the referral options
Furthermore
- 5% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 28% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
77% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (56%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (36%)
- Further training or resources (35%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (35%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (46%)
- Mentoring/ Peer support (34%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (30%)
- 66% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 83% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 34% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 24% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 57% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 51% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 46% legal issues
Furthermore
- 6% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 44% Lack of time
- 36% Cost of study/Location of training facility
- 26% Lack of flexibile options
Furthermore
- 11% N/A – I have good access to training
- 1% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 4% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 1% do not experience work-related stress
- 71% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 29% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (80%)
- Vicarious trauma (46%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (44%)
Resistance or backlash
- 9% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 93% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 52% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 7% No
Furthermore
- 61% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Community mental health services

Workforce census results for respondents who work in community mental health services.

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Community mental health services

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Community Mental Health Services (n=212), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 79% identify as female
- 21% identify as male
- 1% self-described.
Age
- 26% are aged 18-34 years
- 45% are aged 35-54 years
- 29% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 52% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 16% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 32% have more than 10 years experience working their current role .
Total annual income
- 36% earned $91,000 or above
- 34% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 38% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 13% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 5% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 20% completed Year 12
- 15% completed Certificate I-IV
- 17% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 45% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 22% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 43% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 4% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 41% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 34% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 42% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 46% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 33% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 45% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 43% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 40% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 31% There are not enough referral options
- 30% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 2% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 23% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
77% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (61%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (43%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (40%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (56%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (36%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (35%)
- 54% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 80% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 25% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 16% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 70% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 60% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 58% Legal issues for family violence/ Working with children exposed to family violence
Furthermore
- 3% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 46% Lack of time
- 38% Cost of study
- 28% Resourcing issues
Furthermore
- 11% N/A – I have good access to training
- 2% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 6% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 62% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 36% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (79%)
- Vicarious trauma (50%)
- Staff turnover (47%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (47%)
Resistance or backlash
- 11% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 88% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 46% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 11% No
Furthermore
- 60% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Court services

Workforce census results for respondents who work in court services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Court Services (n=112), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria.

Gender
- 74% identify as female
- 26% identify as male
- 0% self-described.
Age
- 42% are aged 18-34 years
- 36% are aged 35-54 years
- 22% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 71% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 13% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 15% have more than 10 years experience working in their current role.
Total annual income
- 26% earned $91,000 or above
- 36% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 34% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 4% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 8% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 30% completed Year 12
- 34% completed Certificate I-IV
- 17% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 48% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 14% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 20% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 49% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 51% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 36% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 30% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 32% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 39% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 33% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence .
Top 3 barriers
- 39% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 29% I am not familiar with referral options
- 19% There are not enough referral options
Furthermore
- 10% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 21% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
71% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (51%).
- Collaboration with other service providers (38%).
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (35%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (33%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (31%)
- Mentoring/Peer support (30%)
- 45% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 73% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 27% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 13% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 55% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 45% Legal issues for family violence
- 42% Intersectionality/ Working with perpetrators of family violence
Furthermore
- 19% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 34% Lack of time
- 29% Not aware of any training that exists
- 20% Cost of study/ Resourcing issues
Furthermore
- 9% N/A – I have good access to training
- 8% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 6% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 1% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 3% do not experience work-related stress
- 64% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 33% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (82%)
- Staff turnover (39%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (39%)
Resistance or backlash
- 6% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 79% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 49% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 16% No
Furthermore
- 44% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Disability services

Workforce census results for respondents who work in disability services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Disability Services (n=126), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 81% identify as female
- 19% identify as male
- 0% self-described.
Age
- 26% are aged 18-34 years
- 55% are aged 35-54 years
- 18% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 55% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 18% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 27% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 23% earned $91,000 or above
- 25% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 35% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 18% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 9% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 21% completed Year 12
- 34% completed Certificate I-IV
- 34% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 39% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 7% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 21% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 0% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 19% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 7% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 18% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 22% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 12% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 25% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 23% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 13% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 43% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 31% I am not familiar with referral options
- 24% There are not enough referral options
Furthermore
- 9% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 18% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
63% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (52%).
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (44%).
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (43%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (52%)
- Mentoring/Peer support (38%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (35%)
- 36% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 61% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 15% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 13% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 52% Family violence risk assessment and risk management (CRAF)
- 51% Identifying and screening family violence/ Working with children exposed to family violence
- 49% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
Furthermore
- 6% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 42% Lack of time
- 34% Cost of study
- 28% Not aware of any training that exists
Furthermore
- 9% N/A – I have good access to training
- 6% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 5% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 1% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 65% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 33% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (79%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (47%)
- Vicarious trauma (34%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 85% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 46% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 14% No
Furthermore
- 40% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Education

Workforce census results for respondents who work in education.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report includes results for individuals who indicated that they worked in Early Childhood, Principal / School Leadership, School Education, Student Services, Learn Local, Post Tertiary – Formal Professional Education, Tertiary Education – University, or Tertiary Education – Vocational Education and Training.

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Education (n=277), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 91% identify as female
- 8% identify as male
- 0% self-described.
Age
- 14% are aged 18-34 years
- 58% are aged 35-54 years
- 29% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 31% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 26% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 43% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Education completed
- 8% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 22% completed Year 12
- 27% completed Certificate I-IV
- 36% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 44% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 20% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 20% completed Postgraduate Degree
- <1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 32% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly.
- 12% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 16% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 36% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 14% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 39% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 49% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 19% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 48% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 35% I am not familiar with referral options
- 28% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
Furthermore
- 4% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 18% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
63% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (62%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (38%).
- Further training or resources (34%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (51%)
- Mentoring/ Peer support (34%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (31%)
- 38% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 67% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 15% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 11% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 55% Working with children exposed to family violence
- 53% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 51% Family violence risk assessment and risk management (CRAF)
Furthermore
- 6% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 48% Lack of time
- 38% Cost of study
- 32% Location of training facility
Furthermore
- 8% N/A – I have good access to training
- 2% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 5% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 1% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 62% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 36% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (93%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (38%)
- External pressures (31%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 87% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 53% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 12% No
Furthermore
- 52% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Housing and homelessness

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in housing and homelessness.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Housing and Homelessness (n=178), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 75% identify as female
- 23% identify as male
- 2% self-described.
Age
- 42% are aged 18-34 years
- 46% are aged 35-54 years
- 12% are aged 55+.
Years of experience in role
- 60% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 26% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 14% have more than 10 years experience working their current role.
Total annual income
- 9% earned $91,000 or above
- 33% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 42% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 16% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 9% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 24% completed Year 12
- 19% completed Certificate I-IV
- 34% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 48% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 6% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 19% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD.
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 57% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly.
- 31% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 45% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 40% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 32% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 53% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 45% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 27% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 49% There are not enough referral options
- 33% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 19% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 4% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 21% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
80% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (70%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (55%)
- Further training or resources (34%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (34%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (56%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (48%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (39%)
- 70% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 85% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 31% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 24% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 68% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 60% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 56% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 2% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 50% Lack of time
- 40% Cost of study
- 27% Employer not able to support training and development
Furthermore
- 10% N/A – I have good access to training
- 1% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 5% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 0% do not experience work-related stress
- 69% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 31% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (78%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (46%)
- Vicarious trauma (44%)
Resistance or backlash
- 9% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 91% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 55% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 6% No
Furthermore
- 63% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Justice

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in justice related roles.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report includes results for individuals who indicated that they worked in Corrections and Community Corrections, Crime Prevention, Financial and Gambling Services, Sheriffs / Infringement Management and Enforcement Services, or Youth Justice.

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Justice (n=121), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 79% identify as female
- 21% identify as male
- 0% self-described
Age
- 28% are aged 18-34 years
- 43% are aged 35-54 years
- 28% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 57% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 24% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 19% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 24% earned $91,000 or above
- 32% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 35% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 9% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 15% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 26% completed Year 12
- 44% completed Certificate I-IV
- 36% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 38% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 12% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 22% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 2% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 47% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 46% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly
Identifying family violence
- 37% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 36% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 41% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 35% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 32% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Top 3 barriers
- 33% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 30% I am not familiar with referral options
- 29% There are not enough referral options
Furthermore
- 10% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 19% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
72% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (62%).
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (52%).
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (38%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (50%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (41%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (33%)
- 64% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 70% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 26% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 24% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 49% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 48% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 41% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 9% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 47% Lack of time
- 32% Cost of study/ Not aware of any training that exists
- 28% Location of training facility
Furthermore
- 10% N/A – I have good access to training
- 2% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 7% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 62% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 36% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (62%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (59%)
- Vicarious trauma (51%)
Resistance or backlash
- 14% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 82% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 46% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 14% No
Furthermore
- 42% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Legal services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in legal services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Legal Services (n=60), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Although the survey was an attempted census of all people in the broader workforce, to aid the interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey responses as though they have been obtained from a random sample of the workforce. Accordingly, the data presented in this document can be interpreted as having up to a +/- 13% margin of error at the 95% level of statistical confidence. The survey did not obtain enough responses to meet the target margin of error of +/- 10% at the 95% confidence level.

Gender
- 94% identify as female
- 6% identify as male
- 0% self-described
Age
- 36% are aged 18-34 years
- 57% are aged 35-54 years
- 8% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 58% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 30% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 11% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 27% earned $91,000 or above
- 27% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 29% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 16% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 6% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 34% completed Year 12
- 19% completed Certificate I-IV
- 19% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 58% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 30% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 21% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 2% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 73% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 45% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly
Identifying family violence
- 44% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 33% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 40% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 49% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 32% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 35% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Top 3 barriers
- 40% There are enough referral options
- 31% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 19% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 4% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 23% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
82% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (51%)
- Further training or resources (38%).
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (38%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (43%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (32%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (27%)
- 48% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 80% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 36% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 20% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 58% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 49% Working with Aboriginal communities/ Working with adolescents
- 44% Trauma-informed practice/ Cultural safety training
Furthermore
- 7% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 62% Lack of time
- 42% Cost of study
- 35% Resourcing issues
Furthermore
- 8% N/A – I have good access to training
- 4% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 4% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 2% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 64% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 34% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (88%)
- Vicarious trauma (71%)
- External pressures (41%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 90% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 56% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 8% No
Furthermore
- 58% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Maternal and child health

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in maternal and child health.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Maternal and Child Health (n=135), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 99% identify as female
- 1% identify as male
- 0% self-described
Age
- 7% are aged 18-34 years
- 44% are aged 35-54 years
- 49% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 27% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 22% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 51% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 43% earned $91,000 or above
- 29% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 21% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 8% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 11% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 29% completed Year 12
- 6% completed Certificate I-IV
- 18% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 38% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 57% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 51% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 0% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 42% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 12% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly
Identifying family violence
- 33% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 35% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 17% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 55% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 49% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 18% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Top 3 barriers
- 50% There are not enough referral options
- 26% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
- 16% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 1% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 25% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
89% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (65%).
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (43%).
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (33%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (52%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (38%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (31%)
- 96% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 97% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 33% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 33% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 61% Legal issues for family violence
- 53% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 49% Working with perpetrators of family violence/ Working with migrant and refugee communities
Furthermore
- 1% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 40% Lack of time
- 36% Cost of study
- 31% Resourcing issues
Furthermore
- 23% N/A – I have good access to training
- 0% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 6% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 1% do not experience work-related stress
- 71% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 28% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (70%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (33%)
- Vicarious trauma (30%)
- Staff turnover (30%)
Resistance or backlash
- 4% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 97% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 56% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 3% No
Furthermore
- 61% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Other community services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in other community services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report includes results for individuals who indicated that they worked in Counselling, Employment Services, LGBTIQ Services, Local Council / Local Government, Neighbourhood Houses, Older People (including elder abuse) Services, or Policy, Research and Advocacy.

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Other Community Services (n=283), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Although this survey was an attempted census of all employees in the broader workforce, to aid in interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey data overall as though it is a quasi-random sample. However, it should be noted that accurate population estimates are not available for Other Community Services due to additional organisation type categories being added into the survey (and subsequently into this report) based on advice received at the sector consultation stage. These additional categories were not accounted for when collating the population estimates, and therefore no confidence intervals may be provided.

Gender
- 87% identify as female
- 13% identify as male
- 0% self-described
Age
- 15% are aged 18-34 years
- 50% are aged 35-54 years
- 35% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 46% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 24% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 30% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 23% earned $91,000 or above
- 31% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 27% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 19% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 8% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 22% completed Year 12
- 23% completed Certificate I-IV
- 27% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 45% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 27% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 29% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 37% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly.
- 16% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 33% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 32% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 22% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 48% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 39% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 24% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 35% There are not enough referral options
- 27% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 22% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
Furthermore
- 7% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 26% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
77% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (60%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (40%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (40%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (53%)
- Mentoring/ Peer support (34%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (31%)
- 56% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 83% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 30% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 25% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 55% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 46% Legal issues for family violence
- 44% Working with perpetrators of family violence
Furthermore
- 5% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 44% Lack of time
- 33% Cost of study
- 29% Location of training facility
Furthermore
- 15% N/A – I have good access to training
- 2% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 6% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 70% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 28% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (81%)
- Vicarious trauma (38%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (37%)
Resistance or backlash
- 9% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 88% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 56% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 9% No
Furthermore
- 63% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Police

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in police services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Police (n=145), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 39% identify as female
- 59% identify as male
- 2% self-described
Age
- 29% are aged 18-34 years
- 52% are aged 35-54 years
- 19% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 42% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 24% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 34% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Education completed
- 9% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 32% completed Year 12
- 26% completed Certificate I-IV
- 46% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 32% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 8% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 9% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
Identifying family violence
- 77% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 78% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 75% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 79% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 79% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 78% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 18% There are not enough referral options
- 10% My organisation doesn't support me to respond to family violence
- 9% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
Furthermore
- 5% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 41% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
80% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (49%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (44%)
- Increased mentoring/peer support (21%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (34%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (30%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (24%)
- 92% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 90% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 68% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 64% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 42% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 33% Intersectionality
- 29% Trauma-informed practice
Furthermore
- 29% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 34% Lack of time
- 24% Resourcing issues
- 16% Employer not able to support training and development
Furthermore
- 25% N/A – I have good access to training
- 2% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 9% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful

Public health services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in public health services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Public Health Services (n=565), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Although the survey was an attempted census of all people in the broader workforce, to aid the interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey responses as though they have been obtained from a random sample of the workforce. Accordingly, the data presented in this document can be interpreted as having up to a +/- 5% margin of error at the 95% level of statistical confidence.

Gender
- 87% identify as female
- 13% identify as male
- 0% self-described
Age
- 23% are aged 18-34 years
- 55% are aged 35-54 years
- 23% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 35% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 26% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 38% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 34% earned $91,000 or above
- 30% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 24% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 12% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 8% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 20% completed Year 12
- 14% completed Certificate I-IV
- 12% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 55% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 27% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 32% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 24% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 15% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly
Identifying family violence
- 21% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 22% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 15% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 32% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 29% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 15% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 43% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 35% I am not familiar with referral options
- 23% I am not confident dealing with cultural or language barriers that may exist
Furthermore
- 7% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 25% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
71% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Collaboration with other service providers (45%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (45%).
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (41%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (46%)
- Organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (39%)
- Mentoring/ Peer support (36%)
- 63% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 67% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 18% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 13% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 60% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 51% Family violence safety planning
- 51% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 6% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 49% Lack of time
- 36% Cost of study
- 33% Not aware of any training that exists
Furthermore
- 7% N/A – I have good access to training
- 4% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 3% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- <1% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 1% do not experience work-related stress
- 67% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 32% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (91%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (46%)
- Vicarious trauma (28%)
Resistance or backlash
- 10% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 91% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 52% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 6% No
Furthermore
- 58% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Settlement services

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in settlement services.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Settlement Services (n=34), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Although the survey was an attempted census of all people in the broader workforce, to aid the interpretation of results, the researchers have treated the survey responses as though they have been obtained from a random sample of the workforce. Accordingly, the data presented in this document can be interpreted as having up to a +/- 16% margin of error at the 95% level of statistical confidence. The survey did not obtain enough responses to meet the target margin of error of +/- 10% at the 95% confidence level.

Gender
- 80% identify as female
- 20% identify as male
- 0% self-described
Age
- 23% are aged 18-34 years
- 53% are aged 35-54 years
- 23% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 67% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 23% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 10% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 4% earned $91,000 or above
- 29% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 43% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 25% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 3% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 3% completed Year 12
- 10% completed Certificate I-IV
- 23% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 23% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 10% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 47% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 0% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 27% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly
- 13% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly
Identifying family violence
- 42% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 30% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence
- 26% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 52% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 35% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence
- 23% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence
Top 3 barriers
- 42% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 23% There are not enough referral options
- 19% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 6% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 26% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
91% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (53%)
- Further training or resources (41%)
- Collaboration with other service providers (41%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (61%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (45%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (32%)
- 59% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 76% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 23% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 14% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 66% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 64% Working with perpetrators of family violence/ Working with adolescents
- 59% Working with children exposed to family violence
Furthermore
- 0% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 55% Lack of time
- 38% Cost of study
- 34% Not aware of any training that exists
Furthermore
- 14% N/A – I have good access to training
- 3% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 0% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 0% do not experience work-related stress
- 80% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 20% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (100%)
- Staff turnover (50%)
- Poor management or organisational issues(50%)
Resistance or backlash
- 3% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 85% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 52% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 15% No
Furthermore
- 70% find this support to be very or extremely effective

Youth work

Workforce census summary results for respondents who work in youth work.

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Notes for interpreting results presented in this report

This report presents a summary of the 2019-20 Census findings for respondents who indicated that they held a role within Youth Work (n=115), in the broader workforce that intersects with family violence in Victoria. The broader workforce is defined as those who are sometimes in contact with victim survivors or perpetrators of family violence and are required to deal with the impacts of family violence, despite this not being a significant focus of their role.

Gender
- 83% identify as female
- 17% identify as male
- 1% self-described
Age
- 61% are aged 18-34 years
- 30% are aged 35-54 years
- 9% are aged 55+
Years of experience in role
- 75% have less than 5 years experience working their current role
- 18% have 5-10 years experience working their current role
- 7% have more than 10 years experience working their current role
Total annual income
- 14% earned $91,000 or above
- 32% earned between $71,000 to $90,000
- 41% earned between %51,000 to $70,000
- 12% earned less than %51,000
Education completed
- 10% completed Year 11 or below (includes certificate I/II/NFD)
- 24% completed Year 12
- 26% completed Certificate I-IV
- 36% completed Diploma or Advanced Diploma
- 53% completed Bachelor's Degree
- 8% completed Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate
- 23% completed Postgraduate Degree
- 1% completed PhD
(Multiple responses permitted)
- 55% are in contact with individuals who are experiencing or at risk of family violence, at least weekly.
- 35% are in contact with individuals who are perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence, at least weekly.
Identifying family violence
- 47% are very or extremely confident identifying adults that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 55% are very or extremely confident identifying children and young people that may be experiencing or at risk of family violence.
- 35% are very or extremely confident identifying individuals that may be perpetrating or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Responding to disclosures of family violence
- 54% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an adult disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 53% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to children and young people disclosing, identified as experiencing, or at risk of family violence.
- 25% are very or extremely confident responding appropriately to an individual's disclosure that they are perpetrating, or at risk of perpetrating family violence.
Top 3 barriers
- 43% I haven’t had sufficient training
- 40% There are not enough referral options
- 25% I am not familiar with referral options
Furthermore
- 6% N/A – I have not yet been required to respond to family violence
- 12% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers
77% feel that they have enough support in their role to respond to family violence if or when they identify it.

Top 3 sources of additional support that would increase confidence in relation to:

Family violence
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (63%)
- Collaboration with other service providers (62%)
- Improved organisation policies, procedures and practice guidance (39%).
Primary prevention of family violence
- Information sharing and collaboration with other service providers (59%)
- Shadowing experienced practitioners (55%)
- Community of practice for primary prevention practitioners (50%)
- 62% understand that they are required to undertake family violence training as part of their role
- 87% have completed training in at least one topic in relation to family violence prevention and response
- 27% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to family violence response to perform their role effectively
- 30% are confident that they have had enough training and experience in relation to primary prevention of family violence to perform their role effectively
Top 3 topics in which further training is desired
- 70% Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM)
- 63% Working with perpetrators of family violence
- 58% Legal issues for family violence
Furthermore
- 1% did not wish to complete training in any of the listed topics
Top 3 barriers
- 56% Lack of time
- 44% Cost of study
- 30% Location of training facility/ lack of flexible options
Furthermore
- 6% N/A – I have good access to training
- 0% N/A – I don't require access to such training
- 4% N/A – I have not experienced any barriers to such training
- 0% Not interested in further training as past experiences have been negative / not useful
- 2% do not experience work-related stress
- 64% experience low or moderate levels of work-related stress; and
- 34% experience high, very high or severe levels of work-related stress
Top 3 causes of work-related stress
- High volume of work/high demands (81%)
- Poor management or organisational issues (56%)
- Vicarious trauma (50%)
Resistance or backlash
- 8% often/always experience resistance or backlash in undertaking your work
Access to support
- 92% Yes – support if I encounter cases of family violence or disclosures
- 59% Yes – support if I encounter resistance or backlash
- 6% No
Furthermore
- 49% find this support to be very or extremely effective

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Alcohol and drug services

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Ambulance services

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Broader community services

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Children, families and child protection

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Community health services

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Community mental health services

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Court services

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Disability services

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