During COVID-19, workers are doing an extraordinary job of supporting victim survivors and keeping perpetrators accountable under challenging conditions. At the NIFVS Regional Integration Committee meeting in August, members identified that the second lockdown is taking a toll on workers, who are fatigued and are finding it difficult to have a life work balance. In…
Information about service changes in the north during COVID-19; practitioner and community resources are now available on the NIFVS Website. Services are still responding to family violence, though most have moved to providing services remotely. Service information will be regularly updated, so workers know how to access support for their clients. Find COVID-19 Information and…
The Term 4 Group Work calendar is now available. Each school term, the NIFVS team produces a calendar of family violence support groups, facilitated by organisations in the northern metropolitan region. Groups include therapeutic groups for women and children, parenting groups and perpetrator intervention programs. This coming term’s calendar includes a Vietnamese Women’s group facilitated…
Thorne Harbour Health provides family violence counselling and support to LGBTI communities and run the ReVisioning Men’s Behaviour Change Program for same sex and same gender attracted men who use violence. They also provide Family Violence Flexible Support Packages for those who are considering leaving or have recently left a relationship violence circumstance. Ada Conroy,…
This year will mark the 20th Anniversary of the Week Without Violence in the northern metropolitan region. Plans for celebrations of this achievement are underway. If you have photos, particularly of the early events, please contact Robin Gregory robing@whin.org.au. The Week Without Violence (WWV) is a global campaign to end violence against women. The campaign…
The Term 3 Group Work calendar is now available. Each school term, NIFVS produces a calendar of family violence support groups, facilitated by organisations in the northern metropolitan region. Groups include therapeutic groups for women and children, parenting groups and men’s behaviour change programs. If you would like to have a family violence group included…
The Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS) Regional Integration Committee has endorsed its new Strategic Plan for 2019-2023. The committee’s new mission to ‘provide regional leadership that increases the safety of victim survivors, the accountability of perpetrators and strengthens Victoria’s family violence reforms’ will be enabled by new strategic priorities: Leadership – providing system leadership…
The Northern Metro Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group (NIFVRAG) hosted the Statewide Indigenous Family Violence Partnership forum in Northcote on 22-23 May 2018. IFVRAG Cochairs from across Victoria met to discuss issues facing Aboriginal communities and the impact of the family violence reforms agenda of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations. NIFVRAG members presented on key…
The NIFVS Coordination Team is offering free in-house training on Identifying Family Violence: Responding to Women to three agencies in the northern metropolitan region on either 21, 26 or 28 June 2018. Agencies that can guarantee attendance by at least 25 people and can provide an appropriate training room are welcome to apply. You may…
On 18 April 2018 the NIFVS Coordination Team hosted the latest Family Violence Regional Induction at the Craigieburn Global Learning Centre. Held twice a year, the Induction provides workers with an understanding of the integrated family violence system in the northern metropolitan region. The session featured presentations from Victoria Police and Darebin Community Legal Centre,…
