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MARAM Communities of Practice

No to Violence’s Communities of Practice can further facilitate your confidence and expertise in applying the MARAM Framework in working with men using family violence in Victoria.

They can also provide a space to come together with others doing similar work, share experiences, challenges and hopes for your work leading into the future.

What is MARAM?

The Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework ensures services are effectively identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk.

The Framework aims to support practitioners across Victoria working both in the specialist family violence sector and also the broader service sector (universal services) in responding to adults using family violence. 

Communities of Practice

Our Communities of Practice provide people with additional knowledge and expertise in understanding and working under the MARAM framework. Our focus is to support all those working in the specialist and broader service sector in responding to Adults Using Family Violence.

Select the sessions relevant to your role and register for all of them in advance if you prefer. Each session will cover a different topic to support you in different areas of your professional development.

Identification & Intermediate MARAM CoP for Practitioners in the Broader Service Sector – Monthly

Exploring Identification and Intermediate Adult using Family Violence MARAM responsibilities that workers in the broader service sector undertake. Supporting practitioners to identify and screen for the presence of Family Violence and complete Intermediate risk assessments and or Identification templates. Our focus is to support and increase practitioner confidence in working with or alongside people who may be using family violence and integrate this into their current work practice.  

Comprehensive MARAM CoP for Specialist Family Violence Practitioners – Monthly

Exploring the Comprehensive Adult using Family Violence MARAM responsibilities that Specialist Family Violence Practitioners are prescribed under. Specific work around practice guidance and understanding the nuance of complex concepts related to structured professional judgement, risk assessment and management planning, safety planning, collusion, person in their context, bias, information sharing, multi-agency collaboration and leadership. Particular attention to the different roles within intake and assessment, referral and response and intervention work.

Comprehensive MARAM CoP for Specialist Family Violence Leadership – every two months

To support and equip those in leadership positions by providing a space for voluntary, informal, and self-organised collaboration. To foster knowledge sharing, learning, and change by encouraging creative approaches, and the sharing of experiences around their capacity to increase workforce capability with staff at entry and practitioner level. To convey practice guidance and nuanced work practices under the Adults using Family Violence MARAM framework. 

Identification & Intermediate MARAM CoP for Leadership in the Broader Service Sector – every two months

To support and equip those in leadership positions by providing a space for voluntary, informal, and self-organised collaboration. To foster knowledge sharing, learning, and change by encouraging creative approaches, and the sharing of experiences around their capacity to increase workforce capability with staff at Identification and Intermediate levels prescribed under the Adults using Family Violence MARAM framework. 

Combined CoP for Leadership – Dec 2025 

For the month of December 2025, we have combined the Communities of Practice (CoP) for Leadership across all MARAM prescribed organisations, both the broader service sector and specialist service sector. 

If you are supporting practitioners responding to Adults Using Family Violence/People Using Violence, then this year’s final CoP will be a great opportunity for networking opportunities within your region and sharing the wisdom of all those in Leadership positions.