WHIN is providing more ‘Active Bystander Training: Preventing violence against women and building equal and respectful workplaces’ sessions in 2020. This training supports organisations across the northern metropolitan region to create programs, services and workplace cultures that promote equality and respect. Participants will gain an increased understanding of how they can build actions to prevent violence…
Victoria is the first state to introduce a Gender Equality Bill, an important step in closing the gender pay gap, improving gender equality and all levels of the public sector workforce, and reducing workplace sexual harassment. The Bill requires public sector organisations, universities and local councils to develop and implement Gender Equality Action Plans every…
The latest Implementation Monitor’s annual report was tabled in Parliament in February 2020. The Implementation Monitor, Jan Shuard PSM, noted the strengths of the reforms including the whole-of-government structures and reporting arrangements now in place across the reform; and the enactment of new legislation to ensure key elements of the reform are enduring. She also…
Kellyanne Andy (CEO, Elizabeth Morgan House and NIFVS Committee member) has highlighted the issue of housing shortages for Aboriginal women and children in this article from Domain in The Age. A dramatic shortage of social housing in Victoria is contributing to the high rate of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, often in cases…
From 1 March 2020, the Northern and Western Homelessness Networks will place an embargo on referrals to a particular private rooming house provider that does not meet appropriate standards. The Networks have asked that others support the boycott by not referring clients to any SLM, DS Leasing, North West Accommodation (NWA) and McDON facilities. Last…
Jade Blakkarly CEO Women’s Information, Support and Housing in the North (WISHIN) and our Deputy Chair of the NIFVS Regional Integration Committee has been nominated for the Pro Bono Australia Impact 25 Awards. The awards recognise social sector leaders who are working to make Australia more equitable. Winning this award would be a great way…
If you haven’t already completed the Victorian Family Violence Workforce Census, the closing date has been extended to Friday 28 February to give more workers an opportunity to have their say. This census is for everyone who plays a role in preventing, identifying and responding to family violence, even if it isn’t the main focus…
Evidence shows that the risk and experience of violence increases during and post disaster events. Following the devastating bushfires in Victoria and beyond, ANROWS have developed summaries to assist understanding the connection. The Gender & Disaster (GAD) Pod promotes an understanding of the role played by gender in survivor responses to national disaster and to…
Family Safety Victoria have developed a MARAM training decision tree, to assist in selecting the right MARAM training to attend.
(Source: Family Safety Website, 29/1/20)
Between February and September 2020, the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare will deliver free MARAM training to specific workforces: MARAM Screening and Identification training will be offered to the Antenatal staff/midwives and Care Services (previously OOHC), and Maternal and Child Health workforces MARAM Briefing and Intermediate training will be offered to the Child FIRST/…
