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Northern Integrated Family
Violence Services Partnership
For professionals supporting the
safety of victim survivors in Melbourne's
northern metropolitan region

Program

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Acknowledgment of Country
Welcome & Opening Address

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Panel 1: Understanding Accountability

In this thought-provoking panel, practitioners and leaders from across the family violence sector will explore how accountability is understood and enacted at individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Through shared insights and robust discussion, panellists will examine how a commitment to accountability shapes safer, more effective responses to family violence, and what it takes to embed this principle into practice from the outset. This session invites reflection on justice, choice, responsibility, and the role of systems in enabling meaningful change.

  • Child Protection
  • The Orange Door
  • Legal services
  • Specialist Family Violence Services team

11:30 am – 11:50 am

Morning Tea

11:50 am – 12:50 pm

Panel 2: Services Collaboration – A Care Team Discussion

In the afternoon panel, you will hear from practitioners working in and across children’s services that engage with family violence and will reflect the services involved in a care team. This session will focus on peer knowledge sharing and experiences of best practice and pathways for collaborative, wrap-around service support for children and young people experiencing family violence.

  • Integrated Family Services
  • Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation
  • Specialist Family Violence Service
  • Mental Health
  • Children’s Therapeutic Services

12:50 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Reflection Activity

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

Service Stalls & Networking
Closing