Strengthening the Foundations: First Rolling Action Plan 2019-22

• Minister's foreword

  Victoria’s vision is to end family violence and keep women and children safe. To achieve this, the Victorian Government wants to grow and support a workforce that is recognised as world-leading.

• Introduction

  Strengthening the Foundations is the first of 3 Rolling Action Plans that work towards achieving the long-term vision for workforces that intersect with family violence.

• Scope of Strengthening the Foundations

  Strengthening the Foundations has an extensive scope across the specialist family violence and primary prevention, community services, health, justice, and education and training sectors.

• Implementing Building from Strength

  Building from Strength has a broad scope to build family violence response and prevention capability over 10 years across a range of workforces that intersect with family violence.

• Strengthening the Foundations Focus Areas

  The 7 focus areas developed to support achieving the long-term vision of Building from Strength will be realised through a number of thematic key foundational priorities and associated actions.

• Focus area 1: Building workforce capability

  Building workforce capability is vital in creating a system that works together in response to the complexities of family violence.

• Focus area 2: Enhancing training architecture

  A skilled and capable workforce must be supported by high-quality industry-informed and flexible learning.

• Focus area 3: Recruiting and retaining specialist workforces

  This plan addresses current supply challenges as well as the need to build a sustainable pipeline for the future with clear pathways into the sector for students and workers from other sectors.

• Focus area 4: Strengthening Leadership in the Specialist Sectors

  The family violence reform agenda is ambitious, complex, and unprecedented. Strong sector leadership will maximise this opportunity for enduring change.

• Focus Area 5: Prioritising health, safety and wellbeing

  Supporting specialist response and primary prevention workforces undertake in their demanding roles means that we must focus on their health, safety and wellbeing.

• Focus area 6: Building sector and organisational capability

  Building from Strength’s vision includes a system that is flexible and dynamic and can respond to evolving community, economic and social trends.

• Focus area 7: Working in a connected and cohesive system

  Building from Strength’s broad scope across all workforces that intersect with family violence supports system connectedness.

• Building the evidence base

  The seven focus areas, the key workforce priorities and associated initiatives and the implementation pathway are grounded in evidence.

• Partnering in the implementation of strengthening the foundations

  Realising the vision and actions in Building from Strength requires a long-term collaborative effort over the life of the Rolling Actions Plans.

• Glossary

  A glossary of terms used throughout Strengthening the Foundations: First Rolling Action Plan 2019-22.

Updated 25 November 2019