Strengthening Practice in the Mallee: Safe, Accountable and System-Aligned Practice with No To Violence (Mildura)

Name: Strengthening Practice in the Mallee: Safe, Accountable and System-Aligned Practice with No To Violence (Mildura)
Start: 2026-12-03T10:00:00+1100
End: 2026-12-03T14:30:00+1100
Location: Benetook Room (Alfred Deakin Centre)

Thu, 3 Dec, 10am - 2:30pm AEDT

Benetook Room (Alfred Deakin Centre)

Mildura VIC, Australia

Mallee Family Violence Executive

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About the Event

Join the Mallee Family Violence Executive and No to Violence (NTV) Australia’s peak body for organisations working with men that use family violence for a vital, free professional development forum in Mildura.

Designed specifically for local practitioners, specialists, and professionals working across the Mallee region, this intermediate level forum focuses on Working with Adults Using Family Violence (AUFV) within the MARAM Framework.

Enhance your capability to keep victim-survivors safe by keeping AUFV visible, accountable, and engaged through evidence-informed, system-aligned practice.

What You Will Learn & Cover

Safe Engagement & Conversations: Best practices when working and having safe conversations with adults using family violence.
Risk & Accountability: Screening for suicide risk and understanding assessor-level accountability within the MARAM framework.
Understanding Collusion: What collusion is, identifying signs of collusion, and working through it effectively.
System & Framework Alignment: Ensuring evidence-informed practice and aligning your day-to-day work directly with MARAM.
Service Collaboration: Working collaboratively across regional services to keep AUFV visible and accountable.
Exclusive Q&A with NTV: An open session to ask questions, network, and engage with local industry peers and sector professionals.

Event Details

Date: Thursday December 3rd
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM (Lunch provided)
Location: Benetook Room, Alfred Deakin Centre (190 Deakin Ave, Mildura)
Cost: FREE (Registration is essential via Humanitix)

Who Should Attend?

Social workers, case managers, allied health professionals, community legal services, mental health profressionals, Victoria Police personnel, child and family services, child protection practitioners, justice services, alcohol and other drugs case mangers, housing and homelessness support workers, maternal and child health, and any practitioners working within the Mallee sector who engage with adults using family violence under the MARAM framework.

Enquiries: please contact Donna Strong donnas@msau-mdvs.org.au

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Mallee Family Violence Executive

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The Mallee Family Violence Executive is one of 13 Family Violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs)
across Victoria. The MFVE provides strategic leadership, advocacy, and specialist expertise to strengthen effective
responses to family violence across the local service system, to help end family violence in the Mallee.

The Mallee Family Violence Executive is focused on:

Leadership: Strengthen MFVE’s position and role in influencing and contributing to the systems-level reform of Ending Family Violence.

Workforce: Strengthen Mallee’s workforces for effective family violence response and primary prevention actions.

Governance: Strengthen our structures and processes for the effective governance of integration in the Mallee in the
context of Ending Family Violence and its reform agenda.

Primary Prevention: Voice the primary prevention goals and activities available in the Mallee.
Support agencies to embed primary prevention principles in their practice.

Integration: Ensure effective integration occurs in the Mallee, across the entire spectrum of intervention, across all workforces,
and through best-practice and innovative projects that understand Mallee-specific needs.