Building Bridges Forum: Save the Date!
NIFVS are planning a full-day forum to strengthen connection and collaboration between victim-survivors and people who use violence services in Melbourne’s North under the MARAM Framework and Information...
Make it Mainstream Community of Practice
Submit your EOI for the CoP: Make it Mainstream: Building safer, inclusive services for LGBTIQA+ people experiencing family violence
Lunch & Learn launch
Lunch & Learn are free, 1-hour sessions featuring sector experts who will speak to vital learning areas to enhance practice in the family violence context.
MARAM training: Working with adults using family violence
NTV has released 2024 dates for MARAM trainings focused on working with adults using family violence.
Lunch & Learn sessions
Stay tuned for details and dates of the NIFVS Lunch & Learn sessions!
Free MARAM Collaborative Practice Training
The MARAM Collaborative Practice training is for all professionals who respond to family violence in the northern metropolitan region. The training builds on the foundations of MARAM to explore how practitioners...
Practice Lead Community of Practice
Safe and Equal are recommencing the Practice Lead Community of Practice for practice leaders, or anyone undertaking similar duties, who are responsible for supporting MARAM best practice.
Northern Integrated Family Violence Services Partnership MARAM Survey
The Northern Integrated Family Violence Services partnership is undertaking survey as an assessment to determine how organisations and practitioners are aligning practice to the MARAM and Information Sharing Schemes.
Supporting Businesses and Workplaces to Respond to Family Violence
Safe and Equal are supporting businesses and workplaces to meet their OH&S and Fair Work obligations in relation to domestic and family violence.
Responding to Victim Survivor Experiencing Criminalisation
The NIFVS team have developed a new webpage, Criminalised Victim Survivors, with resources to assist practitioners respond to victim survivors who have been criminalised. Victim survivors who have experienced criminalisation, may encounter discrimination in the family violence service system, which can impact on their risk and access to safety and support.
Baby Makes 3 Program Receives Further Funding
Building on the work of program lead healthAbility, the Baby Makes 3 program has received $1.2 million from the state government. Baby Makes 3 works to build equal and respectful relationships for families who are becoming parents for the first time.
Escaping Violence Program Financial Support – Agency Fast Track Application
The Escaping Violence Program (EVP) has recently introduced an agency fast-track application process that aims to streamline and expedite the financial support clients can receive.
NIFVS Team Welcome Katrina Dickinson
The NIFVS Team is excited to be welcoming Katrina Dickinson to the role of MARAMIS and Workforce Development Coordinator.
Successful Turn Input into Action Forum
On 30 March 2023, organisational leaders across the northern metropolitan region progressed recommendations arising from the Victim Survivor Experience Mapping report.
Easing of Evidence Requirements: Temporary Protection Visa
The Federal government has announced changes to ‘non-judicial’ evidence requirements for temporary visa holders, who seek assistance as victim-survivors of family and domestic violence.
Travel Passes for Vulnerable Students Available
The Victorian Government is providing 30-day Travel Passes free of charge to eligible Victorian school students, such as those experiencing homelessness or escaping family violence.
Download Updated NIFVS Family Violence Posters
The NIFVS multi-language Family Violence posters have been updated to reflect the change to Merri-bek City Council. These posters inform community members, victim survivors and adults using family violence about support services that are available in the northern metropolitan region. The posters contain information in English, Arabic, Assyrian, Chinese, Hindi, Punjabi and Vietnamese.
New Bilingual Family Violence System Connectors
The new Multi-Service Coordinated Family Violence Response Project will target women and children from South Asian community in the City of Whittlesea by out posting Bilingual Family Violence System Connectors at key locations.
Long-term Funding for Young People using Violence in the Home Response
Berry Street’s therapeutic service, Take Two has received long-term funding to continue their work providing whole-of-family services for families with young people using violence in the home in the northern metropolitan region.
Research Project – Family Violence Affecting Families with Children from Migrant Backgrounds
Researchers from the University of Melbourne would like to speak to mothers or caregivers from migrant backgrounds whose families have experienced domestic and family violence (DFV). This project...
‘Disconnected & Insecure’ report
Disconnected & Insecure: The intersection between experiences of long COVID and intimate partner violence
MARAM Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Management – adapted for the legal sector
Safe and Equal and ECLC are co-delivering a MARAM training for the legal sector
Strong Foundations: Building on Victoria’s work to end family violence
Complete the survey to help the Victorian Government develop the Family Violence Reform Rolling Action Plan 2024-26.