Lunch & Learn - Standing Together: Supporting multicultural and multifaith families (AVITH)

NIFVS Lunch & Learn events are delivered as free sessions throughout 2025 to strengthen the practice skills and confidence of professionals to safely and effectively respond to family violence.

This Lunch & Learn will be delivered by Milli, Senior Multicultural Youth Worker at Drummond Street Services and Julia, Team Leader Family Violence at Centre for Multicultural Youth.

Join us at this session to:

• Understand the considerations and implications of working with AVITH.

• Learn about the program’s therapeutic support for young people and families and its whole-of-family approach.

• Hear how the program supports multicultural and multifaith families, respecting diverse cultural backgrounds and tailoring assistance to individual needs.

• Explore patterns and themes observed in the young people and families the program works with.

• Understand referral pathways and how to connect families with the right support

Standing Together is a partnership between Drummond Street Services and the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY), supporting young people and their families experiencing conflict at home, including situations where a young person may be enacting, or at risk of enacting harm. The program takes a compassionate, non-judgmental, whole-of family approach to strengthen family relationships and promote the wellbeing and safety of children, young people, and families.

Following a presentation, participants will have the opportunity engage in a Q&A to unpack how this applies to practice.

About the presenters

Milli has been working with young people and families from multicultural backgrounds, including refugees and migrants, since 2021. Currently, she works as a Senior Multicultural Youth Worker in the AVITH field, within the Standing Together program - a collaboration between Drummond Street Services and CMY.

Julia has a decade of experience working with people from migrant and refugee background in several countries. She has worked in a few different roles within CMY, as a Team Leader for Gippsland and Program Manager for Youth Participation and is currently Team Leader for Family violence overseeing 4 emerging family violence projects, amongst them Standing Together.

Who should attend?

Lunch and Learn sessions are designed for both specialist and non-specialist family violence practitioners under MARAM, with particular focus on professionals who may want to learn more about navigating family violence risk in their roles.

Please register by Tuesday 9 December to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!

Further Information about the Lunch & Learn: 

This session is booked out. What should I do now?
We encourage you to add your name to the waiting list. If a place becomes available, you will receive an email inviting you to register. Please note, you will have a limited time to respond to this offer before the place is offered to the next person on the waiting list.

How does NIFVS use my contact information?
We will add your contact details to the NIFVS mailing list. This will mean you will receive the monthly NIFVS eNews and information about upcoming professional development opportunities. If you would prefer not to receive this information, please us know at info@whin.org.au.

Where will I find the link to join the session?
The Zoom link will be emailed to you once you complete the registration process.

Will the session be recorded?
Unfortunately we are unable to record the Lunch & Learn session. All practitioners are encouraged to participate on the day of the session.

Lunch & Learn sessions are informed by your input. You can fill out this 5 minute survey to have your say on future sessions.

Acknowledgment of Country

The Northern Integrated Family Violence Services acknowledges Victorian Aboriginal people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we provide our services – the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation – and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. NIFVS acknowledges that Aboriginal sovereignty was never ceded and expresses hope for justice and reconciliation.