April – May – June 2024

Talk to our team about bespoke training for your organisation in 2024.

MARAM Adults using family violence training – Available now

No to Violence is working in partnership with Family Safety Victoria (FSV) and Safe and Equal to deliver MARAM training modules for practitioners who need to have an applied understanding of MARAM and information sharing in their roles when working with adults using family violence.

MARAM sets out the responsibilities of different workforces in identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk across the family violence and broader service system. Depending on your role within an organisation, you will learn about different responsibilities and practice guides to keep perpetrators in view and accountable, and to promote the safety of victim survivors of family violence.

The MARAM responsibilities decision guide provides an overview of how you may determine which level of responsibilities you hold.

There are three levels of training:

The Five Essential Discussion Tools

The Five Essential Discussion Tools support those working with men who have used/are using family violence to help them understand their emotions and how they are linked to their violent behaviours. 

The Tools are made up of practical strategies that practitioners can use to engage meaningfully with men to help them moderate their behaviour and keep their families and communities safer. 

No to Violence offers free training to train practitioners in how to use the Tools in their work with men who use family violence. The Five Essential Discussion Tools training is suitable for experienced practitioners who work directly with men (one on one, group work or case management) in specialist family violence services, but also other sectors like AOD, mental health and child protection services.

The training is designed to refresh and upskill practitioners in de-escalation techniques to reduce harm. The training contains specific engagement strategies for face-to-face, telephone and online responses with men who use family violence. .

The Five Essential Discussion Tools training is available as a free, online, 3 hour facilitated training package on the following dates:

• Friday 3 May 2024 – 10am to 1pm
• Friday 17 May 2024 – 10am to 1pm
• Friday 31 May 2024 – 10am to 1pm
• Friday 14 June 2024 – 10am to 1pm
• Friday 28 June 2024 – 10am to 1pm

Upcoming events

The following events are scheduled for the April to June 2024 period:

The MARAM Vic team host the following Communities of Practice (CoP) on a monthly basis:

• Family Safety Advocates CoP
  24/04/24, 28/05/24 – 10-11.30am

• Clinical Supervisors CoP
  10/04/24 – 2-3pm, 28/05/24 – 10-11am

If you would like more information on these events, please contact the MARAM Vic team at maramvic@ntv.org.au

The NSW Sector Development team host a number of Communities of Practice and forums held in NSW for practitioners providing male family violence interventions; along with the NSW Men’s Behaviour Change Network meetings which are held bi-monthly:

• Men’s Behaviour Change Network Meeting
  12/04/24, 13/06/24 – 9.30am-12pm

• Male MBCP Practitioner CoP
  23/05/24 – 1-2.30pm

• Women MBCP Practitioner CoP
  02/04/24 – 10.30-11.30am

• Women and Children’s Advocate CoP
  07/05/24 – 10.30-11.30am

• Regional, Rural and Remote Forum
  20/05/24 – 1.30-2.30pm

• Combined Women Practitioners and Women’s & Children’s Advocate CoP
  05/06/24 – 10.30-11.30am
  
  
• ACCOs Yarn
  11/04/24, 13/06/24 – 2-3.30pm

For more information on these events, please contact the NSW Sector Development team at nsw@ntv.org.au