MARAMIS week 2024: Strengthening our family violence shared understanding and practice.
This year, MARAMIS Week ran from 21-25 October hosting a range of online seminars targeted to the broader Victorian family violence sector.
MARAMIS week is an annual event hosted by DFFH and aims to promote understanding of family violence and information sharing, alongside supporting professionals and organisations to align with and apply the framework.
The team would like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who was a part of this event. A special thanks goes out to our many presenters and the DFFH Communications team who helped to make this event happen. A special thanks also to the Minister for Prevention of Family Violence, the Hon. Vicki Ward MP, DFFH Secretary, Peta McCammon, and FSV Deputy Secretary, Melanie Heenan who all found time in their busy schedules to host MARAMIS week events.
Want more information? Visit the MARAMIS week page MARAM and Information Sharing Week 2024.
MARAM makes it onto ABC Drive radio!
The incredible Anita Morris, DFFH’s Statewide Family Violence Principal Practitioner represented DFFH in an interview on ABC’s Drive radio program on October 31, 2024, as part of MARAMIS week.
MARAMIS week videos-release of event recordings
If you were unable to attend any of this year’s MARAMIS week events, we are pleased to announce that the MARAMIS week events were recorded and will be released shortly. Here are some of the important topics covered:
- MARAM and Information Sharing in practice: Working with Adults Using Family Violence including a panel discussion with Rivka, Chairperson of the Victim Survivor Advisory Council (VSAC)
- Embedding lived experience: Survivor-Advocates from Safe and Equal’s Expert Advisory Panel on why the MARAM and Information Sharing Schemes are critical to keeping victim-survivors safe.
- Identifying the Predominant aggressor: MARAM guidance around the predominant aggressor
- The Regional Family Violence Integration Committee: collaborative practice agencies working together and how this can improve outcomes for people experiencing family violence.
Reminder!
Child Protection and Housing tailored MARAM: Working with Adults Using Family Violence (AUFV) - Identification and Intermediate level training packages.
Tailored training packages for Child protection and Housing workforces are being facilitated by No to Violence (NTV) with support from senior practitioners from relevant workforces, including:
- Child Protection (CPP2) workers can access the Identification level training
- Child Protection (CPP3-6) can access the Intermediate level training updates
- Housing, Reception, Forensic Disability and Complex Needs workforces can access the Identification level training
- Forensic Disability Clinical Services (FDCS) and Disability Justice Coordination (DJC) workers can access the Intermediate training
For further information please email the DFFH information sharing and MARAM implementation team at infosharing@dhhs.vic.gov.au. We encourage you to visit our webpage MARAM and Information Sharing Hub.
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