Grants
Child, Youth and Family Safety Domestic Family Violence Pilot co-design lead and group supervision and support(s)
CYF are also providing earlier and/or longer support for families through the Family Response and Engagement unit. CYF has established five teams within this unit:
- Family Engagement and Response Teams
- First Nations Family Response and Engagement Team
- Pre-natal Family Response and Engagement Team
- Domestic and Family Violence (DFV)
- Pilot Family Response and Engagement Team
Stopping Family Violence supported ACT Child, Youth and Families in shifting to a family services model that provides earlier and/or longer support for families through a family response and engagement unit. Five teams have been established, with SFV focusing on the design and pilot implementation of the specialist Domestic and Family Violence Family Response and Engagement Team; group supervision and resource development utilising a DFV-informed practice approach with the Safe and Together Model.
Early Intervention with Adolescents Program.
Funded by Paul Ramsay Foundation
This project builds on early intervention pilot programs delivered by SFV at two schools in 2020 and 2022 and with a youth organisation in 2023. Funding over two years was granted via the Paul Ramsay Foundation’s 2023 Specialist DFV Programs: National Open Grant Round. Learnings from the previous work pointed to the need for early intervention with adolescent users of FDV to include a systemic approach that supports consistent and evidence-informed multi-agency responses. Therefore, this program included an additional component of sector development, where intersecting systems and services received FDV-informed training to enable them to have the skills and knowledge to identify, respond and refer young people who may be perpetrating or are at risk of perpetrating FDV. Beginning in July 2023, the project has focussed on developing program materials and building partnerships with schools and youth organisations to co-deliver the program. Three sector development training sessions have also been provided. Program delivery to adolescents across multiple sites is scheduled to commence in the latter half of 2024 as well as up to seven more sector development training sessions.
DOCG20255194 – Support Aboriginal Family Safety Grant
(AFSG) Recipients and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) Family and Domestic Violence Practice
SFV received grant funding to support practice that is culturally responsive and family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) informed. Kyalie Moore and David Batty from SFV worked alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) to co-design a service model that is culturally secure and family violence informed. This is how Dream with Us was created – A Framework for Addressing Aboriginal Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Community.
Strengthening responses to family, domestic and sexualised violence: Building courage, capability and safety together.
Funded by Oak Foundation
This project follows on from earlier work by SFV CEO Damian Green and consultant Rodney Vlais (with the RIMT University Centre for Innovative Justice) to map the journeys of perpetrators of family violence and the roles and responsibilities of services and agencies. From this work, it became apparent that there is now a need and an opportunity for a more nuanced way of thinking about responsibilities, and also of extending this beyond the service sectors to community responses. Following an extensive consultation period with the Oak Foundation, funding was approved in March 2024 for three years to develop a substantial, high-quality website that will be an accessible, easily navigable portal for a vast range of responders to FDSV perpetrators – those who are part of service systems, and those operating outside these formal/professional spaces – to access resources. This project will support and inspire sharing of knowledge and skills that builds the capacity of diverse workforces and communities to respond to the person causing FDSV harm, within parameters appropriate to their role, degree of risk and the situation.
Training & Supervision
Training: St John WA
The Department of Communities has provided St John WA with grant funding to deliver a Family and Domestic Violence (FDV)-informed education program to 3,000 emergency response team members including, State Control Centre (SCC), Paramedics and Clinical Volunteers state-wide. SFV was selected as the lead agency to assist with co-designing and co-facilitating the education. The training has been delivered in both metropolitan and regional areas in WA.
The education package has been developed to build the capacity of emergency response team members to recognise and respond to the needs of patients who may be experiencing FDV. It includes two distinct units – “FDV Education Program Unit 1” and “FDV Education Program Unit 2”. This first online unit is foundational and is delivered online. The second unit expands on the first and is tailored to the specific requirements of each cohort.
The delivery of the project commenced in October 2023 and it is anticipated to take approximately 12-18 months to roll out.
A separate independent subject matter expert, the Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia has been engaged to complete an evaluation of the effectiveness of the education program, prior to the closure of the grant in June 2026.
Supervision: Stopping Family Violence Family and Domestic Violence Informed Supervision Services
Stopping Family Violence continued to offer supervision services throughout the 2024/25 financial year for those working in the family and domestic violence sector. Throughout the financial year, Stopping Family Violence delivered 91hours of supervision multiple different agencies.
Supporting employees who have challenging roles in the family and domestic violence sector with best practices and evidence-based advice. Supervision and training are just part of the journey to embedding better practices and responses to FDSV.
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 organisation 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: 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.
Early Intervention with Adolescents Program – Sector Development Training.
Funded by Paul Ramsay Foundation
Supporting intersecting systems and services to receive FDV-informed training to enable them to have the skills and knowledge to identify, respond and refer young people who may be perpetrating or are at risk of perpetrating FDV. Training examined the key components of FDV-informed practice, coercive control, contributing factors to FDV, gender roles and stereotyped constructions of masculinity and femininity, myths around FDV, and how services can collaborate to bring perpetrators into view and increase the safety of victim-survivors. In partnership with Ebenezer Aboriginal Corporation who kindly provided the venue, SFV trained 27 practitioners from ten different agencies and organisations located in the Northeastern corridor of Perth, with more training sessions to be delivered in 2024/2025.
Training: Cyrenian House Education Package
Stopping Family Violence ran tailored training for Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) professionals and frontline staff to build knowledge and skills in responding safely and effectively to family, domestic, and sexual violence (FDSV). Training was available as a one-day FDSV-informed session, a one-day best practice session for frontline AOD staff, or an extended three-day program for counsellors and FDSV champions.
The training covered the impacts of FDSV on children and families, intersections with alcohol and other drugs, perpetrator patterns, and victim-survivor strengths. Participants learnt safe referral pathways, effective documentation, FDSV-informed language, and strategies to challenge bias and assumptions. Advanced sessions focus on coercive control, non-confrontational engagement, partnering with victim-survivors, working with perpetrators, and applying skills through practical exercises. Across all options, participants gained practical knowledge and confidence to provide informed, safe, and empathetic support to individuals affected by FDSV.
Training: Parkerville Children and Youth Care
Up to 3-day training
Day 1 – Full-day tailored family, domestic and sexual violence-informed training with all staff includes:
- Understand the foundations of domestic and family violence (DFV) and coercive control.
- Identify the gender drivers.
- Understand colonisation drivers and additional considerations for the impacts on First Nation people.
- Identify intersectionality and how this may be used to use further harm.
- Focus on the intersection of FDSV and Mental Health and/or Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD).
- Unpacking stereotypes, bias and assumptions.
- Understanding how to be a source of support and further knowledge for individuals.
Day 2 – Best Practice in FDSV for working with victim-survivors and fathers using FDSV
Additional tailored full-day Best Practice in FDSV for professionals for all practitioners, counsellors, peer workers and specialist family, domestic violence staff which will include:
- Principles of FDV informed principles and adopting a perpetrator patterned approach
- Linking perpetrator patterns of behaviour to the impact of harm on children, young people and family functioning
- How to partner with victim-survivors, understand their strengths and identifying acts of resistance.
- Build knowledge of perpetrator patterns and violence supporting beliefs and narratives
- How to use a non-confrontational approach to challenge problematic thinking, opinions, and behaviours with users of FDSV
- How to minimise collusion with users of FDSV
- An in-depth look at how to make safe referrals, create FDSV-informed documentation and language and support integrated responses.
Day 3 – Practice Skills in FDSV
Recommended third full-day tailored training for counsellors and nominated family, domestic and sexual violence champions which will include:
- Enhanced training in engaging safely and effectively with adult and child victim-survivors of FDSV.
- Enhanced training in engaging safely and effectively with perpetrators of FDSV.
- Holistic assessment and mapping of perpetrator FDSV behaviours and the full impacts on whole of family using participants case scenario examples.
- Application of skills in using family and domestic violence language.
Stopping Family Violence to provide expertise and guidance in the development of a Parkerville FDSV Practice Framework with a child focused lens. SFV can support through across various methods including a working group and/or written feedback on a draft practice framework.
Network
Men’s Behaviour Change Network (MBCN)
The WA Men’s Behaviour Change Network (MBCN) is a collaborative group established in 2016 and facilitated by Stopping Family Violence Inc. (SFV). Its aim is to strengthen working relationships within the perpetrator intervention system in Western Australia.
Initially comprising three organisations focused on perpetrator intervention, the Network has now expanded to include ten organisations
