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Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact

Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact 2022

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Stopping Family Violence 2022 Grants

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Grant: COVID-19 Family and Domestic Violence Grant for the Family and Domestic Violence Informed Behaviour Support Program for Young People (DOCG202026815)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence with the Department of Communities, funded by the Department of Communities.

Details: Commencing in 2021 this grant provided a family and domestic violence responsive program implemented across three high schools (2 metropolitan and 1 regional) and a number of separate workshops to build capability within and around the family and domestic violence sector, by training the support services that work with young people.

Impact: Reduce the number of men who perpetrate violence against women and children, supporting young people to identify disrespectful behaviours and take responsibility to strengthen positive, safe, equal and respectful relations between both young men and women.

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Grant: Perpetrator Response Framework Grant (DOCG20214316)

Funding: Stopping Family Violence project lead, funded by the Department of Communities

Details: Commencing in 2021 Stopping Family Violence developed a perpetrator response framework in partnership with the Department of Communities (Communities), that will guide perpetrator responses that sit within the broader family and domestic violence (FDV) system. The Framework will be utilised as a key strategic Government document that guides improvements to the perpetrator response system across WA.

Impact: Improving the safety and outcomes for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence through the introduction of integrated and accountable systems response that prioritises victim safety and perpetrator accountability.

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Grant: Family and Domestic Violence and Alcohol and other Drug Intersecting Capability Review Tool Grant (ICRT)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence partnership between Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing, and Western Australian Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies funded by the Department of Communities.

Details: The project commenced in 2021 and focuses on supporting organisations’ development and sector capability building across the family and domestic violence and alcohol and other drug sectors.

Impact: Best practice review for increasing safety for victim-survivors at intersections (such as AOD) of family and domestic violence is through sustainable workforce development via service worker training as well as organisation and systems enhancement.

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Stopping Family Violence 2022 Training & Supervision

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Training: Caring Dads Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence has continued its partnership with Caring Dads since 2017

Details: Caring Dads is a group intervention program for men who have abused, neglected, or exposed their children to domestic violence. Stopping Family Violence runs facilitator training events to train facilitators in this model.

Impact: Caring Dads training is devoted to ensuring the safety and well-being of our communities most vulnerable. Stopping Family Violence trains facilitators in this model that will work with fathers who have been abusive neglectful or violent in their families.

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Training: Safe and Together Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Safe & Together has continued to deliver Safe & Together training since 2017

Details: The Safe & Together Institute is a systems change and training organization that helps diverse sectors transform their approach to family and domestic violence informed approach. Using a behavioural, whole-of-family approach, the Institute’s Perpetrator Pattern-based, Child Centred Framework encourages interventions with perpetrators as parents and partners with adult survivors

Impact: The Safe & Together Model is designed to create systems and practice change that is child-centered, keeping children safe and together with the protective parent.

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Training: Stopping Family Violence Training Events

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence supports the family and domestic violence sector

Details: Stopping Family Violence continued to deliver tailored training events to small and large organisations that are tailored to their sector and employees’ needs.

Impact: To create family and domestic violence-informed practice in all areas that create safety for adult and child victim-survivors and change destructive attitudes that contribute to family and domestic violence.

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Supervision: Stopping Family Violence Supervision Services

Stopping Family Violence continued to offer supervision services in 2022 for those working in the family and domestic violence sector.

Impact: Supporting employees that come from working in challenging systems with best practice evidence-based advice for those who work in the family and domestic violence sector.

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Stopping Family Violence 2022 Research

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Discussion Paper: Reporting Outcomes from Change-Focused Family Violence Perpetrator

Program Work with Court Referrals

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Partners with RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice

Details: The discussion paper accompanies a larger report by the CIJ and Stopping Family Violence, entitled Signposts for assessing and reporting family and domestic violence perpetrator behaviour change. This larger report provides an in-depth analysis of issues and considerations relevant to developing a framework of proximal indicators of a behaviour change process for use in reporting to referrers, monitoring program participants, tailoring interventions and in-program evaluation.

Impact: This discussion paper by the Centre for Innovative Justice (CIJ) and Stopping Family Violence (Stopping Family Violence) aims to stimulate discussion amongst Magistrates’/Local Courts and family and domestic violence (FDV) perpetrator change-focused program providers about the benefits of taking a collaborative approach towards setting, assessing and reporting outcomes of change-focused interventions.

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Research Paper: Signposts for Assessing and Reporting Family and Domestic Violence Perpetrator Behaviour Change

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Partners with RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice

Project Details: Defining success in family and domestic violence (FDV) men’s behaviour change program (MBCP) work has been a difficult and contested issue since this work began, internationally in the late 1970s and in Australia in the following decade. The aim of this paper is to support the development of a framework that can conceptualise, delineate, measure and adopt a set(s)1 of proximal or ‘signposts’ indicators.

Impact: The purpose of this paper by the Centre for Innovative Justice (CIJ) and Stopping Family

Violence (Stopping Family Violence) is to encourage further progress around ways to reflect and report, in safe and responsible ways, the extent to which a user of family and domestic violence (FDV) may be (or not be) starting to take steps towards non-violence.

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Stopping Family Violence 2022 Partnerships & Networks

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Network: Member of the Commissioning Working Group

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence committee member led by the Department of Communities

Committee Details: The Commissioning Working Group was formed under the Community Partnerships Roundtable which was established in October 2020. The Roundtable and it’s working groups bring together a broad and diverse range of experience and expertise to jointly address matters of strategic importance relevant to the delivery of human services.

Impact: As a member of the Commissioning Working Group, Stopping Family Violence input will contribute significantly to stronger governance for the Department of Communities.

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Network: Chair of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA

Partnership: Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA led by Stopping Family Violence commenced in 2017.

Details: Since its inception in early 2017, the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) Network has been working to develop a collective, powerful voice for perpetrator programs in WA and support the ongoing evolution toward a standard of excellence across the sector. The Network has become an important forum for collaborative practice, discussion, and establishing cohesive research and development agendas across the perpetrator response sphere.

Impact: The Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA is a collaborative group established to strengthen the working relationships across the perpetrator intervention system in Western Australia. The Network provides a forum to support current practice whilst striving to further develop the sector through improved collaboration and evidence-based innovation. The purpose of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network is to bring the sector together to provide advocacy and support as we work to reduce family and domestic violence in Australia

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Partnership: Co-Peaks The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing

Details: This partnership commenced in 2017, The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is an independent, representative peak body for women’s specialist domestic and family violence, community-based women’s health and sexual assault services in Western Australia is underpinned by our recognition of the importance of gender equality to reduce violence against women and their children and promote their health and wellbeing.

Impact: The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is the co-peak with Stopping Family Violence in family and domestic violence sector in Western Australia. Partnering with the women’s sector gives a cohesive approach to family and domestic violence for women and children and those perpetrating family and domestic violence.

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Partnership with Preventing Violence Together

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Preventing Violence Together (PVT)

Details: Stopping Family Violence helped establish PVT in 2020. Primary prevention focuses on shifting the culture that permits violence to occur in the first place by identifying and challenging the social norms, practices and structures that drive violence against women. Preventing Violence Together works to build the capacity of local communities, state agencies and organisations, government and the private sector to develop, implement and evaluate effective primary prevention activities.

Impact: Stopping Family Violence works together with Preventing Violence Together to foster the primary prevention sector that is developing in our state by supporting shared approaches, consistent practice and confident professionals undertaking primary prevention of violence against women throughout WA.

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Network: Chair of WA Family Law Pathways Network

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Chair the WA Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee

Details: The objective of the Western Australia Family Law Pathways Network is to foster strong links with locally based providers who operate as part of, or alongside, the family law system, to enhance collaboration and improve overall assistance to separated and separating families.

Impact: The WA Family Law Pathways Network hosts an annual conference for those working in the family law system to improve their practice to help families who have separated or are separating.

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Partnership: Respectful Relationships Program

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Starick and the Department of Education

Details: The Respectful Relationships Program is a pilot project delivered in primary and secondary public schools across WA. The program supports school staff to implement a whole of school approach to violence prevention with a focus on the impacts of gender inequality and preventing family and domestic violence. SFV has partnered with Starick Services and the Department of Education in the delivery of the program. The Respectful Relationships Teaching Support Program (RRTSP) has been developed by Starick in partnership with the Department of Communities and the Department of Education to support teachers and school staff to develop knowledge, skills, confidence and community partnerships.

Impact: As part of the program, participants complete foundation family and domestic violence eLearning modules and attend two workshops to explore best practice principles and tools, develop a plan for a whole of community approach and explore future directions and support. SFV brings a key focus on impacts of gender inequality and family and domestic violence expertise to the partnership and has now supported three rounds of the program with over 25 schools attending the program.

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Network Member Humanitarian Entrants Interagency Network (HEIN)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence became a network member of the HEIN Network led by Department of Communities.

Details: Stopping Family Violence commenced on the network in 2017. Metropolitan multicultural networks are gatherings of government, non-government agencies and community groups that share information, knowledge and resources so that they can better support their culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities.

Impact: HEIN facilitates relationships, collaboration and support, and the sharing of information, practice and ideas among agencies that provide services to people from refugee backgrounds.

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Healthy Relationships Strategy Group South East Metropolitan

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence committee member

Stopping Family Violence is the Chair of this group and attends monthly meetings as part of the Healthy Relationships Strategy Group for the South East Metropolitan Corridor. This forum brings together delegates and partnerships from WAPOL, women’s services, perpetrator response, City of Belmont, City of South Perth, Town of Victoria Park, financial services and housing and AOD to identify early intervention strategies for Domestic Violence in the local community.

Impact: As the only representative for perpetrator response on the committee, SFV offers an important voice to this cross-sector collaborative discussion and implementation. SFV aims to ensure that notions of perpetrator accountability and empowering survivors of family and domestic violence remain a top priority of the committee’s discussions.

Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact 2021

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Stopping Family Violence 2021 Grants

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Grant: COVID-19 Family and Domestic Violence Grant for the Family and Domestic Violence Informed Behaviour Support Program for Young People (DOCG202026815)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence with the Department of Communities, funded by the Department of Communities.

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Grant: Perpetrator Response Framework Grant (DOCG20214316)

Funding: Stopping Family Violence project lead, funded by the Department of Communities

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Grant: Family and Domestic Violence and Alcohol and other Drug Intersecting Capability Review Tool Grant (ICRT)

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Grant: The Kimberley Integrated Family and Domestic Violence Project Grant

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence project lead, funded by Lotterywest

Details: Commencing in 2020 The Kimberley Integrated Family and Domestic Violence Project is a community based, Aboriginal co-designed multi-agency collaborative initiative designed to address family and domestic violence (FDV) and intersecting problems such as substance abuse, in the Kimberley.

Impact: Contributing towards an appropriate and effective response to perpetrators of family and domestic violence in the Kimberley region of WA, which promotes the accountability of perpetrators and the safety and well-being of adult and child victim-survivors of family and domestic violence.

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Funded: Process Evaluation of the ACT’s Family Violence Safety Action Plan

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by ACT Government

Project: Stopping Family Violence undertook an evaluation of the first six months of the Family Violence Safety Action Pilot, operated by Victim Support, Human Rights Commission of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The aim of the Pilot (ongoing) is to trial a common approach, across government and non-government agencies and community sector services, towards integrated service delivery for family and domestic violence in the ACT.

Impact: The resulting evaluation report and recommendations were well received and will inform a review of the existing Case Tracking process along with the design of the ACT’s long-term approach to identifying, assessing, and responding to high-risk family and domestic violence matters.

Grant: Responses to Perpetrator Driven Risk during the Covid – 19 Pandemic

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by Department of Communities

Details: The development of a principal Practitioner role to develop and coordinate a cross-system response to high risk/high-need perpetrators in the context of the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Impact: The grant helped to ensure the family and domestic violence sector continues to deliver critical supports and services during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring appropriate measures are

developed to respond to the changing needs of victim-survivors and perpetrators during the COVID-19 health response.

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Stopping Family Violence 2021 Events & Training

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Event: 16 Days of Activism

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by Department of Communities

Details: Stopping Family Violence again played an active role in 16 Days of Activism this year by supporting the sector and raising awareness, motivating positive actions across Western Australia and advocating on behalf of organisations that oppose violence against women.

Impact: The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. It was started by activists at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991 and continues to be coordinated each year by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. It is used as an organizing strategy by individuals and organizations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.

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Event: Stopping Family Violence Conference – Bringing Children and Young People into View

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing

Details: This conference brought together the family and community services and the government sector to discuss the impact of family and domestic violence, and how we as a community can provide greater support to children and young people.

Impact: It is increasingly understood that children and young people can be affected by family, domestic and sexual violence in a range of ways which may be independent of their affected parent, and their needs can be different to those of adults. The purpose of the family and domestic violence Conference was to strengthen our understanding of children and young people’s experiences and needs, and to consider the responses we can put in place to support their safety, health and wellbeing and improve their opportunities.

Training: Caring Dads Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence has continued its partnership with Caring Dads since 2017

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Training: Safe and Together Training Provider

Stopping Family Violence in Partnership with Safe & Together has continued to deliver Safe & Together training since 2017

About Safe & Together: The Safe & Together Institute is a systems change and training organization that helps diverse sectors transform their approach to domestic violence and children. Using a behavioural, whole-of-family approach, the Institute’s Perpetrator Pattern-based Framework encourages interventions with perpetrators as parents and Partners with adult survivors.

Impact: The Safe & Together Model is designed to create systems and practice change that is child-centered, keeping children safe and together with the protective parent.

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Training: Stopping Family Violence Training Events

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence supports the family and domestic violence sector

Details: Stopping Family Violence continued to deliver tailored training events to small and large organisations that are tailored to their sector and employees’ needs.

Impact: To create family and domestic violence-informed practice in all areas that create safety for adult and child victim-survivors.

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Supervision: Stopping Family Violence Supervision Services

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence supports the family and domestic violence sector

Details: Stopping Family Violence continued to offer supervision services in 2022 for those working in the family and domestic violence sector.

Impact: Supporting employees that come from working in challenging systems with best practice evidence-based advice for those who work in the family and domestic violence sector.

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Stopping Family Violence 2021 Partnerships & Networks

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Network: Chair of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA

Partnership: Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA led by Stopping Family

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Partnership: Co-Peaks The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW,

Impact: The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is the co-peak with Stopping Family Violence in family and domestic violence sector in Western Australia. Partners with the women’s sector gives a cohesive approach to family and domestic violence for women and children and those perpetrating family and domestic violence.

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Partnership: Preventing Violence Together

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Preventing Violence Together (PVT)

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Network: Chair of WA Family Law Pathways Network

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Chair the WA Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee

Impact: The WA Family Law Pathways Network hosts an annual conference for those working in the family law system to improve their practice to help families who have separated or are separating.

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Network: Respectful Relationships Program

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Starick and the Department of Education

Details: The Respectful Relationships Program is a pilot project delivered in primary and secondary public schools across WA. The program supports school staff to implement a whole of school approach to violence prevention with a focus on the impacts of gender inequality and preventing family and domestic violence. SFV has partnered with Starick Services and the Department of Education in the delivery of the program. The Respectful Relationships Teaching Support Program (RRTSP) has been developed by Starick in partnership with the Department of Communities and the Department of Education to support teachers and school staff to develop the knowledge, skills, confidence and community partnerships.

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Network Member Humanitarian Entrants Interagency Network (HEIN)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence became a network member of the HEIN Network led by Department of Communities.

Impact: HEIN facilitates relationships, collaboration and support, and the sharing of information, practice and ideas among agencies that provide services to people from refugee backgrounds.

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Network: Healthy Relationships Strategy Group South East Metropolitan

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence committee member

Stopping Family Violence attends monthly meetings as part of the Healthy Relationships Strategy Group for the South East Metropolitan Corridor. This forum brings together delegates from WAPOL, women’s services, perpetrator response, City of Belmont, City of South Perth, Town of Victoria Park, financial services and housing and AOD to identify early intervention strategies for Domestic Violence in the local community.

Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact 2020

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Stopping Family Violence 2020 Grants

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Grant: The Kimberley Integrated Family and Domestic Violence Project Grant

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence project lead, funded by Lotterywest

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Grant: Responses to Perpetrator Driven Risk during the Covid – 19 Pandemic

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by the Department of Communities

Project Details: The development of a Principal Practitioner role to develop and coordinate a cross system response to high risk/high need perpetrators in the context of the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Impact: The grant helped to ensure the Family and Domestic Violence sector continues to deliver critical supports and services during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring appropriate measures are

developed to respond to the changing needs of victim-survivors and perpetrators during the COVID-19 health response.

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Stopping Family Violence 2020 Events & Training

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Event: 16 Days of Activism

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by the Department of Communities

Details: Stopping Family Violence again played an active role in 16 Days of Activism this year by supporting the sector and raising awareness, motivating positive actions across Western Australia, and advocating on behalf of organisations that oppose violence against women.

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Training: Caring Dads Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Caring Dads

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Training: Safe and Together Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Safe & Together

Details: The Safe & Together Institute is a systems change and training organization that helps diverse sectors transform their approach to domestic violence and children. Using a behavioural, whole-of-family approach, the Institute’s Perpetrator Pattern-based Framework encourages interventions with perpetrators as parents and partnerships with adult survivors.

Impact: The Safe & Together Model is designed to create systems and practice change that is child-centered, keeping children safe and together with the protective parent.

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Training: Stopping Family Violence Training Events

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence supports the family and domestic violence sector

Details: Stopping Family Violence continued to deliver tailored training events to small and large organisations that are tailored to their sector and employees’ needs.

Impact: To create family and domestic violence-informed practice in all areas that create safety for adult and child victim-survivors.

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Training: Legal Aid Training by Stopping Family Violence

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Legal Aid

Details: The training for Legal Aid was on the Client Safety Framework included information for staff to better recognise and respond to clients where it is identified that there are safety risks that arise from a client’s experience or use of family violence or situations where a client is feeling suicidal.

Impact: Suicide and family violence have been included in this training as they are client safety issues that lawyers commonly confront in their practice. Increasing education and awareness enables Legal Aid staff to safely respond to their clients where there is family violence or situations where a client is feeling suicidal.

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Supervision: Stopping Family Violence Supervision Services

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence supports the family and domestic violence sector

Details: Stopping Family Violence continued to offer supervision services in 2022 for those working in the family and domestic violence sector.

Impact: Supporting employees that come from working in challenging systems with best practice evidence-based advice for those who work in the family and domestic violence sector.

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Stopping Family Violence 2020 Research

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Research: Monitoring and Quality Assurance Framework

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence supports the family and domestic violence sector

Project Details: The vast array of issues covered in this review included registration processes, the place of complaint mechanisms, the features of comprehensive accreditation systems, program logic models, and safety and accountability planning.

Impact: The resulting framework provides detailed recommendations for an accreditation framework and system for WA MBCP providers and includes a timeline for this work.

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Stopping Family Violence 2020 Partnerships & Networks

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Network: Peer Practitioner Forum

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by Department of Communities

Details: During the COVID-19 Crisis, SFV continued to facilitate the Peer Practitioner Forum (PPF) bi-monthly meetings and included extra support sessions during the period when MBCPs groups shut down.

Impact: Despite restrictions, the group continued to evolve, with participants finding additional value from a peer supervision format and connecting across both regional and metro WA to share knowledge, skills and challenges around perpetrator accountability and partnership with victim-survivors.

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Support: Family and Domestic Violence One Stop Hubs

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in consultation with Department of Communities

Details: This year SFV closely supported the Department during the development phase of the One Stop Hub process with a significant amount of consultation. This included attendance at an information session and partnership with the Department in providing expert advice and support during a combined trip to Victoria’s key Government and not-for-profit services involved in the Orange Door Project.

Impact: In January 2017 the State Government released its Stopping Family and Domestic Violence Policy which included the establishment of two family and domestic violence One Stop Hubs to simplify access to specialist family and domestic violence support services. The Hubs will provide a wraparound approach, with a range of support services on site to support victims of family and domestic violence in multiple aspects of life.

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Network: Chair of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA

Partnership: Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA lead by Stopping Family Violence commenced in 2017.

Committee Details: Since its inception in early 2017, the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) Network has been working to develop a collective, powerful voice for perpetrator programs in WA and support the ongoing evolution toward a standard of excellence across the sector. The Network has become an important forum for collaborative practice, discussion, and establishing cohesive research and development agendas across the perpetrator response sphere.

Impact: The Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA is a collaborative group established to strengthen the working relationships across the perpetrator intervention system in Western Australia. The Network provides a forum to support current practice whilst striving to further develop the sector through improved collaboration and evidence based innovation. The purpose of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network is to bring the sector together to provide advocacy and support as we work to reduce family and domestic violence in Australia.

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Partnership: Co-Peaks The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

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Partnership: Preventing Violence Together

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Preventing Violence Together (PVT)

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Network: Chair of WA Family Law Pathways Network

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Chair the WA Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee

Impact: The WA Family Law Pathways Network hosts an annual conference for those working in the family law system to improve their practice to help families who have separated or are separating.

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Network: Respectful Relationships Program

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Starick and Department of Education

Details: The Respectful Relationships Program is a pilot project delivered in primary and secondary public schools across WA. The program supports school staff to implement a whole of school approach to violence prevention with a focus on the impacts of gender inequality and preventing FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. SFV has partnered with Starick Services and the Department of Education in the delivery of the program. The Respectful Relationships Teaching Support Program (RRTSP) has been developed by Starick in partnership with the Department of Communities and the Department of Education to support teachers and school staff to develop knowledge, skills, confidence and community partnerships.

of community approach and explore future directions and support. SFV brings a key focus on impacts of gender inequality and family and domestic violence expertise to the Partnership and has now supported three rounds of the program with over 25 schools attending the program.

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Network: Member Humanitarian Entrants Interagency Network (HEIN)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence became a network member of the HEIN Network led by Department of Communities.

Impact: HEIN facilitates relationships, collaboration and support, and the sharing of information, practice and ideas among agencies that provide services to people from refugee backgrounds.

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Network: Healthy Relationships Strategy Group South East Metropolitan

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence committee member

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Network: Multi-cultural Advisory Forum

Partnership: Led by Department of Human Services

Details: Stopping Family Violence was invited by Department of Human Services to join the Multi-cultural Advisory Group in 2017.The forums provide consultation with multicultural communities at local, state and territory levels. These forums ensure communities know about the department’s programs, services and new initiatives which have an impact on CALD customer. The group provides advice and feedback about the quality and effectiveness of the department’s service delivery to multicultural customers.

Impact: As one of the only representatives for perpetrator intervention work in the forum, SFV offers expertise and advise in the area of engaging with perpetrators in this space to increase the safety of women and children. SFV also utilises the information in these forums to further inform men’s specialist services.

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Network: ASeTTs Research Project Reference Group

Partnership: ASseTTS and University of Western Australia

Details: Stopping Family Violence is part of the Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTs) and the University of Western Australia’s Research Reference Group “The Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTs) and the University of Western Australia’s Research Reference Group for a project developing best practice guidelines for work with perpetrators from refugee backgrounds.

Impact: The ANROWs funded project ‘Best practice principle for interventions with DV perpetrators from refugee backgrounds’ aims to provide evidence to inform interventions for perpetrators of refugee backgrounds that are responsive to refugees’ experiences of torture and trauma. Alongside representative from MBCPs, and CALD and refugee services, SFV offer expertise and constructive advice throughout the project.

Network: National Fatherhood Project – Expert Reference Group

Partnership: National Fatherhood Project

Details: Stopping Family Violence participate in the expert reference group for the National Fatherhood Project being led by White Ribbon Australia. For many men, fatherhood is a time of transformation that inspires a deeper understanding about the importance of their role to act as positive agents of change and this project aims to support and encourage this potential. The expert reference group will guide the development and implementation of the Activity Work Plan through ongoing guidance of the project’s activities.

Impact: The project aims to engage with men – as fathers, soon-to-be fathers, or those in father figure roles – to model and foster positive and respectful attitudes and behaviours towards women and girls.

Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact 2019

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Stopping Family Violence 2019 Grants

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Grant: Early Intervention in High Schools

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence, the Women’s Council, Palmerston Drug and Alcohol Service, and Relationships Australia.

Details: In particular, earlier in 2019 SFV took the opportunity to partnership with the Women’s Council, Palmerston Drug and Alcohol Service, and Relationships Australia WA to deliver an interactive and responsive family and domestic violence workshop to year 11 and 12 students at Sevenoaks Senior College. The program focused on educating students on respectful behaviours, family and domestic violence whilst empowering the students to recognise they had the opportunity and ‘power’ to make a positive difference in the lives of others, in particular their female friends, partnerships, teachers, and family members.

Impact: Discussions were facilitated to allow the participants to use their own past or current examples which allowed the students to lead the conversation and come up with their own strategies to help develop safe behaviours in the future.

Grant: The Kimberley Integrated Family and Domestic Violence Project

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence – funded by Lottery West

Details: The Kimberley Integrated Family and Domestic Violence Project is a community based, Aboriginal co-designed multi-agency collaborative initiative designed to address family and domestic violence (FDV) and intersecting problems such as substance abuse, in the Kimberley.

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Stopping Family Violence 2019 Events & Training

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Event: Intersectionality in Domestic Violence Conference

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing

Details: The two-day conference featured powerful keynote speakers The Hon. Simone McGurk MLA Minister for Prevention of Family and domestic violence, Rosie Batty, Dr Allan Wade from

the Centre for Response-Based Practice, Antoinette Braybrook, CEO of Djirra, Kate Alexander from the NSW Department of Communities and Justice and SFV Operation Manager Mark O’Hare. In addition, the room also heard from victim-survivor Champo Ngweshe from the Ishar Multi-Cultural Women’s Health Services on her personal experience as a victim of family and domestic violence

Impact: The event focussed on the strengths and challenges of delivering family and domestic violence -Informed practice across a broad spectrum of services that intersect with women, children and men impacted by family and domestic violence. Practitioners, researchers and policy makers from alcohol and drug services, mental health and disability services discussed how family and domestic violence intersects with other disciplines (alcohol, drugs, mental health, disability) and the delivery of family and domestic violence -Informed practiced within this context.

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Training: Caring Dads Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence has continued its partnership with Caring Dads since 2017

About Caring Dads: Caring Dads is a group intervention program for men who have abused, neglected, or exposed their children to domestic violence. Stopping Family Violence runs facilitator training events to train facilitators in this model.

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Training: Safe and Together Training Provider

Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Safe & Together has continued to deliver Safe & Together training since 2017

Impact: The Safe & Together Model is designed to create systems and practice change that is child-centered, keeping children safe and together with the protective parent.

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Training: Stopping Family Violence Training Events

Stopping Family Violence continued to deliver tailored training events to small and large organisations that are tailored to their sector and employees’ needs.

Impact: To create family and domestic violence-informed practice in all areas that create safety for adult and child victim-survivors.

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Stopping Family Violence 2019 Research

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Research Paper: Foundations for Family and Domestic Violence Perpetrator Intervention Systems Paper

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Partners with RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice

Details: In partnership with RMIT Centre for Innovation Justice, SFV published the ‘Foundations’ discussion paper in December 2019. Written by Rodney Vlais, Elena Campbell and Damian Green, the paper seeks to bring together and articulate the complexity inherent in perpetrator intervention systems in a way that individuals who develop and influence systems can consider, use and build upon it

Impact: Support governments, policy developers and researchers to establish what is needed to facilitate the development of appropriate perpetrator intervention systems.

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Research: National MBCP Evaluation Work

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and the Family and Domestic Violence Sector

Details: SFV have spent the year building and developing our expertise in program evaluation and outcomes measurement as part of our capacity building in preparation for the implementation of an accreditation framework in WA.

Impact: These projects continue to aid SFV in our goal to ensure best practice across the sector nationally and strengthen the evidence base for MBCP work, which remains one of the highest priorities for SFV as it is currently evident that there is still an unacceptable level of uncertainty in terms of under what circumstances these programs work, in what way, for whom, and why. It is hopeful that this work will serve as a starting point for the development of a long-term evaluation strategy for MBCP programs and will pave the way for future, similar opportunities for the agency.

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Research: Developing an Outcomes Framework in Australia

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and the Family and Domestic Violence Sector

Details: This practice-level document, bringing together a range of considerations can be used to assist us to commence consultation around the development and eventual pilot of an outcomes framework for MBCP work.

Impact: Outcomes Measurement is an ambitious and long-term goal but one that is essential if we are to move forward into a more nuanced understanding of perpetrator response and the meaningful measurement of outcomes in this work

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Research: Monitoring and Quality Assurance Framework

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and the Family and Domestic Violence Sector

Details: The vast array of issues covered in this review included registration processes, the place of complaint mechanisms, the features of comprehensive accreditation systems, program logic models, and safety and accountability planning.

Impact: The resulting framework provides detailed recommendations for an accreditation framework and system for WA MBCP providers and includes a timeline for this work.

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Research: ANROWS Partnership Contact Project

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with ANROWS and Curtin University

Details: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited is an independent, not-for-profit research organisation established to produce evidence to support the reduction of violence against women and their children.

Impact: The understanding gained from the literature review and surveys will later contribute to improved quality of services provided to victims by identifying gaps between theory and practice and providing practice guidance and considerations for the field.

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Stopping Family Violence 2019 Partnerships & Networks

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Network: Chair of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA

Partnership: Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA lead by Stopping Family Violence commenced in 2017.

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Partnership: Co-Peaks The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW,

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Network: WA Family Law Pathways Network

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Chair the WA Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee

Impact: The WA Family Law Pathways Network hosts an annual conference for those working in the family law system to improve their practice to help families who have separated or are separating.

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Network: Respectful Relationships Program

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Starick and Department of Education

Details: The Respectful Relationships Program is a pilot project delivered in primary and secondary public schools across WA. The program supports school staff to implement a whole of school approach to violence prevention with a focus on the impacts of gender inequality and preventing family and domestic violence. SFV has partnered with Starick Services and the Department of Education in the delivery of the program.” The Respectful Relationships Teaching Support Program (RRTSP) has been developed by Starick in partnership with the Department of Communities and the Department of Education to support teachers and school staff to develop the knowledge, skills, confidence and community partnerships.

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Network Member Humanitarian Entrants Interagency Network (HEIN)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence became a network member of the HEIN Network led by Department of Communities.

Impact: HEIN facilitates relationships, collaboration and support, and the sharing of information, practice and ideas among agencies that provide services to people from refugee backgrounds.

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Network: Healthy Relationships Strategy Group South East Metropolitan

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence committee member

Details: Stopping Family Violence attends monthly meetings as part of the Healthy Relationships Strategy Group for the South East Metropolitan Corridor. This forum brings together delegates from WAPOL, women’s services, perpetrator response, City of Belmont, City of South Perth, Town of Victoria Park, financial services and housing and AOD to identify early intervention strategies for Domestic Violence in the local community.

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Network: Multi-cultural Advisory Forum

Partnership: Network led by Department of Human Services

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Network: ASeTTs Research Project Reference Group

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence with ASseTTS and University of Western Australia

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Network: National Fatherhood Project – Expert Reference Group

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and the National Fatherhood Project

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White Ribbon Australia WA State Committee

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with White Ribbon

Details: White Ribbon Committees are formal volunteer groups which work directly with the National Office in the strategic and operational coordination of White Ribbon activities in their state.

Impact: White Ribbon is the world’s largest movement engaging men and boys to end men’s violence against women and girls, promote gender equality and create new opportunities for men to build positive, healthy and respectful relationships.

Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact 2018

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Stopping Family Violence 2018 Grants

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Evaluation: Outcare

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by Outcare

Details: The project supported Outcare’s family and domestic violence program in applying best practice standards for MBCPs. The review was conducted in consultation with Outcare and involved a detailed desktop review of documentation, in-depth interviews with Outcare program practitioners, supervisors and managers of the program and, observation of practice.

Impact: Nationally, strengthening the evidence base for MBCPs is a critically important issue for the sector as it is evident that there remains an unacceptable level of uncertainty in terms of under what circumstances these programs work, in what way, for whom, and why. SFV recognises the importance of conducting robust long-term evaluation for specific perpetrator interventions in combination with a wider systematic response to achieve this priority. It is hopeful the evaluation of the Outcare family and domestic violence program and development of a long-term evaluation strategy will further enable the development of evidence-based practice in MBCP work. Additionally, this project marks a pivotal opportunity for future positive collaboration with Outcare.

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Evaluation: Relationships Australia MENS Program

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence – Funded by Tasmanian Department of Justice

Details: Develop a framework for evaluation in Men’s Behaviour Change Work and was a positive step forward in developing an evidence base for the sector.

Impact: Stopping Family Violence’s intention to strengthen the evidence base for MBCP work and ensure best practice across the sector nationally. It provided a good opportunity to develop a framework for evaluation and was a positive step forward in developing an evidence base for the sector.

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Pilot: Development of a Men’s Behaviour Change Program and Alcohol and Other Drugs Intervention Pilot

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Funded by Department of Communities

Details: Commenced 2017 to develop and evaluate an integrated family and domestic violence Perpetrator and Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) intervention that is culturally relevant for Aboriginal perpetrators. This project supports further implementation of the State Government’s Safer Families, Safer Communities Kimberley Family Violence Regional Plan 2015-2020 (Kimberley Plan).
Impact: The Kimberley Plan is to reduce family and domestic violence and improve community safety in the Kimberley Region. However, the main aim of the project is to conceptualise and ultimately pilot a coordinated response to perpetrators who are impacted by the co-occurring issues of family and domestic violence and AOD in a place based and co-designed way.

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Stopping Family Violence 2018 Events & Training

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Training: Caring Dads Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Caring Dads

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Training: Safe and Together Training Provider

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Safe & Together

Impact: The Safe & Together Model is designed to create systems and practice change that is child-centered, keeping children safe and together with the protective parent.

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Training: Stopping Family Violence Training Events

Stopping Family Violence continued to deliver tailored training events to small and large organisations that are tailored to their sector and employees’ needs.

Impact: To create family and domestic violence-informed practice in all areas that create safety for adult and child victim-survivors.

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Stopping Family Violence 2018 Research

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Research: ANROWS Advisory Group

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with ANROWS

Impact: Stopping Family Violence contributed to 3 ANROWS publications in an advisory role these are: ANROWS Program quality and outcomes in men’s behaviour change, ANROWS Improving safety through better engagement and retention of perpetrators across the systems of interventions, and ANROWS Invisible Practices: Moving towards child protection practices through a community of practice approach.

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Research: Implementation Plan for the National Outcome Standards for Perpetrator Intervention (NOSPI)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in collaboration with the Department of Child Protection and Family Support (now Department of Communities).

Details: The project plan is part of an ongoing process to strengthen safety for victims, accountability for perpetrators, and help define roles and responsibilities within the family and domestic violence systems response. This will support identification and responses to perpetrators, keeping them within view of the system, especially in terms of ongoing risk assessment and risk management. Improved awareness, and identification of strategies to address gaps between NOSPI and service providers’ current role in perpetrator response work.

Impact: Increased understanding of responsibilities and linkages with regard to the NOSPI, including strengthening information sharing, data collection and collaborative working.

Increased understanding of training required for the implementation of the NOSPI.

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Research: Monitoring and Quality Assurance Framework

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence

Impact: The resulting framework provides detailed recommendations for an accreditation framework and system for WA MBCP providers and includes a timeline for this work.

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Stopping Family Violence 2018 Partnerships

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Network: Chair of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA

Partnership: Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA lead by Stopping Family Violence commenced in 2017.

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Partnership: Co-Peaks The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW,

Details: This Partnership commenced in 2017, The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is an independent, representative peak body for women’s specialist domestic and family violence, community-based women’s health and sexual assault services in Western Australia is underpinned by our recognition of the importance of gender equality to reduce violence against women and their children and promote their health and wellbeing.

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Network: WA Family Law Pathways Network

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Chair the WA Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee

Impact: The WA Family Law Pathways Network hosts an annual conference for those working in the family law system to improve their practice to help families who have separated or are separating.

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Network: Multi-cultural Advisory Forum

Partnership: Led by Department of Human Services

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Network: Member Humanitarian Entrants Interagency Network (HEIN)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence became a network member of the HEIN Network led by Department of Communities.

Impact: HEIN facilitates relationships, collaboration and support, and the sharing of information, practice and ideas among agencies that provide services to people from refugee backgrounds.

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Stopping Family Violence Activities & Impact 2017

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Stopping Family Violence 2017 Grants

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Pilot: Development of a Men’s Behaviour Change Program and Alcohol and Other Drugs Intervention

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence, funded by the Department of Communities

Details: Develop and evaluate an integrated family and domestic violence, perpetrator and alcohol and other drug (AOD) intervention that is culturally relevant for Aboriginal perpetrators. This project supports further implementation of the State Government’s Safer Families, Safer Communities Kimberley Family Violence Regional Plan 2015-2020 (Kimberley Plan).

Impact: The Kimberley Plan is to reduce family and domestic violence and improve community safety in the Kimberley Region. However, the main aim of the project is to conceptualise and ultimately pilot a coordinated response to perpetrators who are impacted by the co-occurring issues of family and domestic violence and AOD in a place based and co-designed way.

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Stopping Family Violence 2017 Events & Training

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Event: Family and Domestic Violence Conference – Pivoting to the Perpetrator; Honouring children’s Experiences

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence funded by the Department of Communities

Details: The first Stopping Family Violence conference bought together the family and domestic violence sector to improve responses and practice in perpetrator response. The conference hosted national and international speakers to discuss and consider children within the context of perpetrator response.

Impact: The presentations delivered covered various issues and debates relevant to perpetrator response systems and honouring children’s experiences within them.

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Event: Dignity Conference

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Presenters

Details: Through a highly participatory workshop, Damian Green and Rodney Vlais discussed perpetrator intervention work at the Dignity Conference held in May.

Impact: Over 40 years of women’s activism has culminated in emerging national conversations about family and domestic violence like never before. The stakes and gravity of these conversations are of course very high. With new and a greater diversity of community representatives, groups and organisations taking an interest and joining in on these conversations, the future feels both tentatively promising and unpredictable.

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Stopping Family Violence 2017 Research

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Research: Implementation Plan for the National Outcome Standards for Perpetrator Intervention (NOSPI)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in collaboration with Department of Child Protection and Family Support (now Department of Communities).

Impact: Increased understanding of responsibilities and linkages with regard to the NOSPI, including strengthening information sharing, data collection and collaborative working.

Increased understanding of training required for the implementation of the NOSPI.”

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Research: Family and Domestic Violence – Issues Paper

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence for the family and domestic violence sector

Details: Stopping Family Violence released their first issues paper ‘Family and domestic violence perpetrator programs. Issues paper of current and emerging trends, developments and expectations.

Impact: The paper offers a national view of trends and developments in family and domestic violence research and literature, ranging from the systemic level to daily practice, to stimulate discussion and action about the steps required to build perpetrator intervention systems which will strengthen existing family and domestic violence efforts and MBCPs within the system.

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Research: Curtin University in Family and Domestic Violence

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Curtin University

Details: As a university with an established reputation for innovation, Curtin excels in a diverse range of research areas that aim to make tomorrow better for people all over the world.

Impact: The partnership with Curtin University has enabled Stopping Family Violence to grow its research capabilities and increase capacity to participate in a wide variety of research projects.

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Research: ANROWS Advisory Group

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with ANROWS

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Stopping Family Violence 2017 Partnerships

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Network: Chair of the Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA

Partnership: Men’s Behaviour Change Network WA lead by Stopping Family Violence commenced in 2017.

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Partnership: Co-Peaks The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing – CWSW,

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Network: WA Family Law Pathways Network

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence Chair the WA Family Law Pathways Network Steering Committee

Impact: The WA Family Law Pathways Network hosts an annual conference for those working in the family law system to improve their practice to help families who have separated or are separating.

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Network: Multi-cultural Advisory Forum

Partnership: Led by Department of Human Services

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Network: Member Humanitarian Entrants Interagency Network (HEIN)

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence became a network member of the HEIN Network led by Department of Communities.

Impact: HEIN facilitates relationships, collaboration and support, and the sharing of information, practice and ideas among agencies that provide services to people from refugee backgrounds.

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Partnership: WA Police Response to Family and Domestic Violence

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in Partnership with WA Police

Details: Stopping Family Violence has been working with WA Police to develop training for new recruits on how best to interact with perpetrators and create opportunities for intervention. The team also provided input into scripts which have been recorded by actors to represent perpetrators of family and domestic violence.

Impact: Improved training and responses in WA Police to victim-survivors and perpetrators of family and domestic violence.

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Partnership: Legal Aid Training & Framework

Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with Legal Aid

Details: The Framework is a comprehensive document to support staff within Legal Aid to work more effectively in the area of family and domestic violence. This compulsory training is far-reaching and will inform all Legal Aid workers from administrative to managerial levels on how to work with victims and perpetrators of family and domestic violence.

Impact: Stopping Family Violence has been providing advice to Legal Aid as they develop an adaptation of a Victorian based Family Violence framework document and training for their staff.

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Stopping Family Violence was founded in 2016, activities and impacts for the first year are captured in the 2017 reporting period.

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