No to Violence works closely with our members and across the national sector to establish best practice for everyone who works with men who use violence. A strong sector is essential for ending men’s use of family violence, and by leveraging and elevating the voices of over 200 organisations and professionals our membership, we strengthen the sector.
Sector resources
Practice guidance and resources
Family Safety Advocacy Practice Guidance
As Victoria continues to implement sector-wide family violence reform, consistency of practice is essential in ensuring victim-survivors are provided timely and appropriate support, while perpetrators are kept in view. The role of Family Safety Advocates has long been vital in this space, providing a bridge focused on safety and accountability between victim-survivors and perpetrators engaging in specialist interventions.
No to Violence has led a Family Safety Advocate Community of Practice since February 2020. It was identified that as the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework rolls out across the state, it is necessary to provide services with additional guidance around alignment to the Framework. This will aim to both standardise the roles of Family Safety Advocates and elevate the important work undertaken by these practitioners.
Saving FACE Faith Sector Guide
Saving FACE Faith Sector Guide is a primary prevention initiative implementing sustainable change in faith-based communities, developed in the context of faith-based principles. This Sector Guide will build the sectors capacity to engage in culturally, linguistically and religiously appropriate care. Click here
Coordinated Responses – continuing to strengthen collaborative practice
This Coordinated Responses resource has been developed by No to Violence, Safe and Equal and Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare through the Family Violence MARAM Sector Grants supported by the Victorian Government. The purpose of the resource is to promote collaborative practice by providing practice examples, including questions and tips for specialist family violence victim survivor services, perpetrator intervention services, and child and family services to use MARAM, FVISS and CISS across sectors.
Fact sheets
Technology Facilitated Abuse
Trauma and Violence Informed Practice
Tip sheets and quick guides
Risk Assessment Frameworks
Webinars and presentations
To watch webinars and presentations click here.
More resources
Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme visual tool
Children’s Information Sharing Scheme visual tool
Practice bulletins
Practice bulletins (archive)
Since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, No to Violence and the Men’s Referral Service have used our regular drop-in sessions to maintain contact and support with sector workers during COVID-19, across the nation. The drop-in sessions have acted as a catalyst to share ideas and knowledge of the sector to assist and support everyone working to end men’s use of violence – we have developed a number of Practice Bulletins:
Practice Bulletin 1 (24 March 2020) – Advice around closure of Men’s Behaviour Change Programs
Practice Bulletin 2 (9 April 2020) – Adjusting to lock down, observed behaviours and telephone engagement during a pandemic
Practice Bulletin 3 (17 April 2020) – Gambling and the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 on the broader domestic and family violence sector
Practice Bulletin 4 (1 May 2020) – Children and fathering, and elder abuse as well as a practice note on fathering.
Practice Bulletin 5 (8 May 2020) – Measuring outcomes and suicide risk during pandemic.
Practice Bulletin 6 (16 May 2020) – Impact of COVID-19 on LGBTIQA+ communities, and family law.
Practice Bulletin 7 (22 May 2020) – Cumulative impact of natural disasters and COVID-19, mental health and counselling, disability.
Practice Bulletin 8 (19 June 2020) – Self care and managing expectations, supervision and online service delivery.
Practice Bulletin 9 (25 May 2020) – Women’s services’ experience of COVID-19.
Practice Bulletin 10 (1 June 2020) – Summary of drop-ins from sector practitioners and online abuse
Practice Bulletin 11 (8 June 2020) – Coercive control support and further training.
Practice Bulletin 12 (15 June 2020) – with Christine Craik, President of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Practice Bulletin 14 (2020) – General program updates
Practice Bulletin 15 (2020) – Gender and Disaster Pod and Information Sharing
Practice Bulletin 16 (2020) – Tech Facilitated Interventions and ANROWS Knowledge Translation
Practice Bulletin 17 (2020) – Remote Working Toolkit and Family Safety Contact Work
Practice Bulletin 18 (2020) Animal abuse and domestic and family violence (DFV)
Practice Bulletin 19 (2020) – Delivering Online Men’s Behaviour Change Programs during the pandemic.
Practice Bulletin 20 (2020) – MBCP Program Evaluation and Methodology with Dr Melissa Kaltner, associate director of Ernst Young and Oceania Evaluation Practice Network
Practice Bulletin 21 (2021) – ‘Yarning Two- Ways’- engaging First Nations Communities and the unique needs of Aboriginal men and practitioners in Men’s Behaviour Change Programs.
Practice Bulletin 22 (2021) – Evaluating behaviour change programs for men who use domestic and family violence.
Practice Bulletin 23 (2021) Central Australia Minimum Standards (CAMS) for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs & the Tangentyere Men’s Family Violence Prevention Program “Marra’ka Mbarintja”
Practice Bulletin 24 (2021) – Sexualised Violence in Intimate Partner Relationships
Practice Bulletin (2021) – Pornography, how does its use show up in the work with men and what are their partners saying.
Community of Practice Bulletins
Since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, No to Violence and the Men’s Referral Service have used our regular drop-in sessions to maintain contact and support with sector workers.
Community of Practice Bulletin 1 (15 April 2020) – Contacting the affected family members, risk management for children, MARAM and communication with MBCP facilitators.
Community of Practice Bulletin 2 (27 April 2020) – Administrative changes to practice, consideration of practice changes that might be beneficial to continue post COVID-19, and updates to MBCPs.
Community of Practice Bulletin 3 (12 May 2020) – Summary of ANROWS research, Family Safety Advocacy work.
MARAM Practice Bulletins (Victoria)
Since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, No to Violence has worked closely with Family Safety Victoria and other sector organisations to develop practice guidance for the family violence services
MARAM Practice Guide – Practice Note Update: Minimum response to victim survivors during COVID-19 period
MARAM Practice Guide – Practice Note Update: Specialist perpetrator behaviour change services minimum response to perpetrators during coronavirus (COVID-19) period
MARAM Practice Guide – Practice Note Update: Tier 2/3 services supporting responses to victim survivors and perpetrators during coronavirus (COVID-19) period
MARAM Practice Guide – Practice Note Update: Resource for working with adolescents using family violence and their families, during coronavirus (COVID-19) period
First Nations Practice Bulletins (2020)
Since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, No to Violence and the Men’s Referral Service have used drop-in sessions every Wednesday in 2020 to maintain contact and support with sector workers. These resources are created for those working with First Nations.
2020
Online Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) Practice Bulletins
COVID-19, ongoing restrictions, and the impacts upon accessibility of face-to-face MBCP groups has prompted No to Violence (NTV) to host online MBCP interventions forums. The intention of these forums is to bring to light some of the issues working with men who use violence in the online space.
No to Violence’s National First People’s Family Violence Network
Formerly known as the No to Violence’s First Nation’s Drop-in, these virtual meetings are held every second Friday of the month, from 11:30 am to 1 pm AEST.
Hosted by No to Violence’s National Sector Development Manager Kyalie Moore, this monthly check-in meeting will be an opportunity to share what people are seeing and experiencing in Community. This forum also offers support and shares resources.
Prior to June 2021, these meetings were held weekly and known as the First Nation’s Drop-in. All meetings minutes from 2021 can be found below and all minutes from 2020 can be found on this page under ‘COVID-19 specific resources for practitioners’:
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 1
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 2
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 3
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 4
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 5
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 6
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 7
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 8
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 9
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 10
National First People’s Family Violence Network # 11
