Figure 2: Overview of the 2019-2022 Blueprint
Vision: An inclusive, safe, responsive and accountable system for all Victorians.
Strategic Priorities from the Everybody Matters: Inclusion and Equity Statement:
- Strategic Priority 1: Building Knowledge
- Strategic Priority 2: Building Capacity and Capability
- Strategic Priority 3: Strengthening Targeted Services
Three-year outcomes:
- There is increased evidence and research on experiences of family violence, service system responses to victim-survivors and perpetrators of family violence, and systemic barriers to engagement for people from Victoria’s diverse communities
- Specialist family violence services have increase awareness of intersectionality
- Specialist and broader family violence workers have increased knowledge about intersectionality and its relevance to their work
- The family violence workforce better reflects the diversity of Victorian communities
- Targeted service provision is more accessible to people from diverse communities experiencing or choosing to use violence.
- Targeted services are accessible through standalone or coordinated responses
Indicators
- Mechanisms implemented to share data and research across Government and the broader service sectors
- Improved data on diverse communities to better inform service design and delivery
- Increased collaboration with people with lived experience in the design and delivery of family violence services
- Increased trials and evaluation of new approaches to interventions to build the policy evidence base
- Increased workforce capacity to embed culturally safe, inclusive and intersectionality practices
- Increased inclusive practice training and ongoing professional development for staff
- Increased workforce diversity
- Increased coordination and collaboration across the service system
- Capacity building initiatives implemented to further strengthen targeted services
- Enhanced targeted initiatives for people from diverse communities
Actions
- Implement the Family Violence Data Collection Framework
- Gather baseline data on the family violence workforce demographics
- Showcase inclusive practice examples, informed by an intersectionality framework
- Trial targeted initiatives for people from diverse communities who use violence
- Support the establishment of Victim Survivor Advisory Groups
- Gather the voices of lived experience through The Orange Door network evaluation
- Commission research to analyse perpetrators of family violence and their service pathways
- Explore systemic barriers to accessing services for people from diverse communities
- Research and pilot projects to understand the drivers of violence against people from diverse communities
- Work with Elder Abuse Prevention Networks to complete action research to understand the drivers of Elder Abuse
- Enhance organisations and workers understanding of intersectionality through the implementation of MARAM and the Intersectionality Capacity Building Project
- Implement disability and women exiting prison practice lead initiatives
- Support 26 organisations to achieve Rainbow Tick Accreditation
- Implement a suite of LGBITQ family violence capacity building initiatives
- Support initiatives to reduce barriers to enter the workforce and encourage people from diverse communities to join the workforce
- Build the capacity of interpreters through family violence training and ongoing professional development
- Rollout e-learning modules on intersectionality
- Develop training packages for faith leaders to understand the nature of family violence and sexual assault in multicultural and faith communities
- Building prevention workforce capacity in intersectionality
- Work with targeted services across diverse communities to inform the development of the MARAM perpetrator practice guidance
- Enhance The Orange Door network linkages with targeted services
- Implement learnings and recommendations from the evaluation of the Family Violence perpetrator intervention trials programs
- Review and evaluate Victoria’s first LGBTIQ specialist family violence service offering
- Implement initiatives across multicultural communities in regional Victoria to prevent and recognise family violence
- Provide targeted funding for primary prevention activities led by multicultural organisations
- Fund statewide telephone support service for people experiencing elder abuse
- Fund LGBTIQ Family Violence applicant and respondent practitioners at selected courts
- Strengthen the capacity of the disability and social services workforce to design and deliver prevention of family violence activities
- Download 'Figure 2: Overview of the 2019-2022 Blueprint'
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