Overview of the 2019-2022 Blueprint

Vision: An inclusive, safe, responsive and accountable system for all Victorians.

Strategic Priorities from the Everybody Matters: Inclusion and Equity Statement:

• Strategic Priority 1: Building Knowledge
• Strategic Priority 2: Building Capacity and Capability
• Strategic Priority 3: Strengthening Targeted Services

Three-year outcomes:

• There is increased evidence and research on experiences of family violence, service system responses to victim-survivors and perpetrators of family violence, and systemic barriers to engagement for people from Victoria’s diverse communities
• Specialist family violence services have increase awareness of intersectionality
• Specialist and broader family violence workers have increased knowledge about intersectionality and its relevance to their work
• The family violence workforce better reflects the diversity of Victorian communities
• Targeted service provision is more accessible to people from diverse communities experiencing or choosing to use violence.
• Targeted services are accessible through standalone or coordinated responses

Indicators

• Mechanisms implemented to share data and research across Government and the broader service sectors
• Improved data on diverse communities to better inform service design and delivery
• Increased collaboration with people with lived experience in the design and delivery of family violence services
• Increased trials and evaluation of new approaches to interventions to build the policy evidence base
• Increased workforce capacity to embed culturally safe, inclusive and intersectionality practices
• Increased inclusive practice training and ongoing professional development for staff
• Increased workforce diversity
• Increased coordination and collaboration across the service system
• Capacity building initiatives implemented to further strengthen targeted services
• Enhanced targeted initiatives for people from diverse communities

Actions

• Implement the Family Violence Data Collection Framework
• Gather baseline data on the family violence workforce demographics
• Showcase inclusive practice examples, informed by an intersectionality framework
• Trial targeted initiatives for people from diverse communities who use violence
• Support the establishment of Victim Survivor Advisory Groups
• Gather the voices of lived experience through The Orange Door network evaluation
• Commission research to analyse perpetrators of family violence and their service pathways
• Explore systemic barriers to accessing services for people from diverse communities
• Research and pilot projects to understand the drivers of violence against people from diverse communities
• Work with Elder Abuse Prevention Networks to complete action research to understand the drivers of Elder Abuse
• Enhance organisations and workers understanding of intersectionality through the implementation of MARAM and the Intersectionality Capacity Building Project
• Implement disability and women exiting prison practice lead initiatives
• Support 26 organisations to achieve Rainbow Tick Accreditation
• Implement a suite of LGBITQ family violence capacity building initiatives
• Support initiatives to reduce barriers to enter the workforce and encourage people from diverse communities to join the workforce
• Build the capacity of interpreters through family violence training and ongoing professional development
• Rollout e-learning modules on intersectionality
• Develop training packages for faith leaders to understand the nature of family violence and sexual assault in multicultural and faith communities
• Building prevention workforce capacity in intersectionality
• Work with targeted services across diverse communities to inform the development of the MARAM perpetrator practice guidance
• Enhance The Orange Door network linkages with targeted services
• Implement learnings and recommendations from the evaluation of the Family Violence perpetrator intervention trials programs
• Review and evaluate Victoria’s first LGBTIQ specialist family violence service offering
• Implement initiatives across multicultural communities in regional Victoria to prevent and recognise family violence
• Provide targeted funding for primary prevention activities led by multicultural organisations
• Fund statewide telephone support service for people experiencing elder abuse
• Fund LGBTIQ Family Violence applicant and respondent practitioners at selected courts
• Strengthen the capacity of the disability and social services workforce to design and deliver prevention of family violence activities