Grants
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.
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.
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.
Events & Training
Training: Caring Dads Training Provider
Partnership: Stopping Family Violence and Caring Dads
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
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.
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.
Research
Research: ANROWS Advisory Group
Partnership: Stopping Family Violence in partnership with ANROWS
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: 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.
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.
Research: Monitoring and Quality Assurance Framework
Partnership: Stopping Family Violence
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.
Partnerships
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.
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 – 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.
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.
Network: 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.
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.
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.
