What MARAM tools are in TRAM and SHIP?
Tools for Risk Assessment and Management (TRAM) has been developed by Family Safety Victoria as an online platform for use across the service system. TRAM contains the adult and child victim survivor MARAM risk assessments and safety plans, Comprehensive Adult Using Family Violence assessment tool, Predominant Aggressor Identification tool, and in future it will host the remainder of the MARAM resources, currently in development. This platform is used across The Orange Door network and by several community agencies.
Family Safety Victoria also oversees the development of the MARAM risk assessment and management tools into the Specialist Homelessness Information Platform (SHIP). SHIP contains the adult and child victim survivor MARAM risk assessments and safety plan. MARAM tools in both these online platforms support services in their alignment to MARAM.
What additional MARAM tools are coming to the online platforms?
The Predominant Aggressor Identification Tool was released to SHIP for use by Specialist Family Violence Services on 15 July 2024. The tool provides a structure to support the accurate identification of the predominant aggressor using information sharing, direct assessment, and structured analysis. If you have not received the updated user guidance for MARAM tools in SHIP, please contact tram@familysafety.vic.gov.au. Use of this tool in SHIP by Specialist Family Violence Services will allow FSV to collect and analyse de-identified data on misidentification trends and contribute to service improvements.
FSV are also scoping the addition of the Identification and Intermediate Adults Using Family Violence assessment tools into SHIP.
The TRAM platform recently underwent a security upgrade to ensure client information remains secure and confidential. This upgrade has resulted in a new and cleaner look for TRAM. It also opens the possibility for further improvements across TRAM which FSV are exploring. Organisations interested in more information or adopting TRAM can contact tram@familysafety.vic.gov.au(opens in a new window).
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