Grants
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.
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.
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.
Training & Supervision
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research
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.
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.
Network
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
