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Guidance on monitoring progress in primary prevention on a population and project level.

Information, tips, tools and resources for specialist family violence practitioners to help support positive change and break down barriers to accessing services for people with disability.

How specialist family violence services can ensure systems and staff are set up to support victim survivors with disability.

Tips for family violence services for building respectful dialogue, asking questions about disability and making information accessible.

Information to help family violence and sexual assault workers understand the NDIS service system and support victim survivors.

How specialist family violence workers can become comfortable asking questions about disability as part of risk assessments and safety planning.

Tools and resources for specialist family violence workers to ensure victim survivors with disability can access support safely.

Practice tips, resources and information for family violence practitioners to increase the safety of victim survivors when navigating the NDIS.

How family violence workers can determine if there are risk and safety considerations that need to be included in safety planning.

Support a victim survivor with disability to access the NDIS and develop an NDIS plan – or find out what supports are available if they’re ineligible.

The Experts by Experience framework aims to enhance the ability of specialist family violence services to provide opportunities for survivor advocates to influence policy development, service planning and practice.

Best practice in integrated service delivery is when multiple organisations work together to help victim survivors access holistic support and services in a more effective and comprehensive manner.

The staff at Safe and Equal are critical to supporting the work taking place within the sector. We are currently working to ensure all staff are recognised in this section.

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Victim survivors who have been criminalised experience high rates of family violence and trauma, and the severity and impacts of this violence and trauma can be significant.

If you are supporting someone who is older or lives with an older person, it is vital you can recognise elder abuse and respond appropriately. Elder abuse is a form of family violence and can include acts of psychological, financial, cultural, verbal, social, spiritual, sexual, and physical abuse and neglect.

People of all genders, sex and sexual orientations can experience family violence. Many experiences of family violence among LGBTIQA+ communities mirror those within heterosexual and cisgendered relationships.

Victim survivors from culturally, linguistically, and faith-diverse communities in Australia, which includes people from migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking backgrounds, experience the same forms of family violence as the broader community.

Set yourself up for a rewarding career in Victoria’s prevention of violence against women sector.

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People experiencing family violence come into contact with every part of the human service system. There are a broad range of services and sectors that have responsibilities to prevent, recognise and respond to safety risks as well as promote perpetrator accountability.

Convened by a Family Violence Principal Strategic Advisor, these committees drive greater integration of regional family violence responses.

The Code of Practice: Principles and Standards for Specialist Family Violence Services for Victim Survivors (the Code) articulates a set of principles and standards to guide consistent, quality service provision for victim survivors accessing specialist family violence services in Victoria.

What specialist family violence practitioners and other professionals need to know about identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk.

The Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme and Child Information Sharing Scheme help Victorian services work together to keep victim survivors safe.

Supported by Safe and Equal, key local services form a Risk Assessment and Management Panel (RAMP) to assess and address the highest risk cases of family violence.

Children and young people can be both directly and indirectly affected by family violence. It’s important to recognise children and young people as victim survivors in their own right, not extensions of their parents, or ‘secondary victims’ of family violence.

This practice guidance has been prepared by Djirra for family violence workers who are responding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing family violence.

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This page includes media coverage of Safe and Equal, as well as coverage from Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) prior to the merge and rebranding in 2021.

Our library of our submissions that have informed state and federal policy and legislation.

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If you’re thinking about a career in the family violence sector, find out what it’s like and where to start.

Read about the types of projects you could be working on and meet people working in prevention of family and gender-based violence.

Read about the types of projects you could be working on and meet people working in prevention of violence against women.

Learn more about where to look for jobs, what employers are looking for and what checks you can expect to go through in the family violence sector.

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Family violence and gender-based violence are complex social issues that require coordinated efforts across the community to address. As a peak organisation, our dedication to collaboration and building strong partnerships is the foundation for all our work.

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The Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre partnered with Safe and Equal to deliver the ‘Responding to the Shadow Pandemic’ webinar series throughout 2020 – 2021.

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Knowledge of behaviours that constitute violence against women, the nature, dynamics and impacts of this violence and knowledge of the terms and concepts used by PVAW practitioners.