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Northern Integrated Family
Violence Services Partnership

For professionals supporting the
safety of victim survivors in Melbourne's
northern metropolitan region

Forums

Forums are open to anyone in Melbourne’s NMR who works towards the safety of victim survivors.

NIFVS face-to-face training and events have been postponed until at least the end of 2021.

Access online family violence training

The NIFVS team convenes a forum several times a year. The forums focus on enhancing workforce capacity in specific areas identified in the NIFVS Regional Plan.

Forum summaries and presentations

Find webinars, summaries and presentation slides from the 2015-22 forums below:

Family Violence Reforms

Turn Input into Action: Progressing Victim Survivor Experiencing Mapping Recommendations (March 2023)

Observing, Documenting & Sharing: Engaging Perpetrators Under MARAM (March 2022)

Consultation and Beyond: Engaging Survivor Advocates webinar (September 2021)

Lessons Learned: MARAM and Information Sharing webinar (May 2021)

Implementing Family Violence Reforms: Intersect between Family Violence, AOD and Mental Health (July 2019)

Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme: From Concept to Practice (July 2018)

Intersectionality

Inclusion and Intersectionality Webinar Series (2020)

Safety & Respect: Women with Disabilities & Family Violence (March 2019)

Young Women and Family Violence: Understanding Barriers and Honouring Strength (November 2018)

Overcoming Barriers: Working with CALD Children in their Own Right (March 2018)

Responding to CALD women who have experienced violence forum (November 2015)

Worker Sustainability and Wellbeing

On the Shoulders of Giants-Workforce Resilience (November 2016)

The Legal System

What She Needs to Know: Supporting victim survivors of family violence through the legal system (November 2017)

Working With Perpetrators

“but he’s a good dad, right?” Responding to fathers who perpetrate family violence (March 2017)

Engaging Men in the North: a forum on using the Family Violence Men’s Help Cards (June 2015)

Collaboration Between Sectors

Strength in the Difference: A Practice Exchange between Family Services and Family Violence Services (July 2017)

Family Violence and Homelessness Practice Exchange Forum (July 2016)

Moving towards greater collaboration: a cross sector forum to improve the safety of women and children who have experienced family violence (March 2016)

Integrated Responses to Vulnerable Children forum (March 2015)

To find out more about the NIFVS Forums, contact info@whin.org.au.