Maintain and improve programs and services for adults using violence

The Victorian Government continues to fund a range of programs and initiatives aimed at supporting people who use family violence to change their harmful behaviour and increase accountability. This includes Men’s Behaviour Change Programs, case management services, specialised intervention programs for people who use violence from across diverse cohorts, tailored programs to support Aboriginal people using violence, serious risk pilot programs, fathering programs and accommodation-based perpetrator interventions.

The Victorian Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework is also a critical enabler for keeping persons who use family violence accountable and responding to their patterns of family violence. All Victorian organisations that are prescribed under MARAM are required to align their policies and procedures to the perpetrator-focused MARAM Practice Guides. These Practice Guides support professionals to understand the perpetrator’s pattern of behaviour, needs, circumstances, and characteristics, to identify and respond to family violence risk.

The Victorian Government continues to monitor and review programs and responses for continuous improvement and to continue to build the evidence base of what works to change harmful behaviours. This includes a focus on program evaluation, development of outcomes measures, supporting improved data capture and reporting capabilities and building the evidence base.