Ensuring Strategic Priorities are Informed and Driven by the Voice of Lived Experience (VIRTUAL)
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Tamborine Gallery
| Wednesday, December 1, 2021 |
| 2:26 PM - 2:46 PM |
Overview
Mrs Christine Robinson, Eastern Metropolitan Regional Family Violence Partnership
Speaker
Mrs Christine Robinson
Principal Strategic Advisor
Eastern Metropolitan Regional Family Violence Partnership
Ensuring Strategic Priorities are Informed and Driven by the Voice of Lived Experience (VIRTUAL)
Abstract
Valuing the input and advocacy of victim survivors through consultation and continuous involvement, learning from first-hand experience where the system gaps are.
The voice of victim survivor advocates was the central driver in the development of the strategic plan of the Regional Family Violence Partnership (RFVP), in Eastern Metropolitan Melbourne, shaping the vision, values, priorities and actions for 2020-2024, and subsequent annual Action Plan’s.
Several themes emerged from consultations with survivors advocates and were adopted:
• Broadening the lens beyond focusing on the point of crisis to support a vision of long-term recovery and address the ongoing impacts of family violence (FV)
• Embedding a trauma-informed lens across all work from prevention to recovery
• Responding to the unique needs of each individual, recognising the diverse and multiple structural barriers some communities experience
• Strengthening the integration of services which engage perpetrators.
This consultation formed the basis of the ‘Believed and Respected’ report and will be shared with conference participants.
The RFVP established cross sector Working Groups (WG) to drive work in the identified themes, including –
• FV Therapeutic WG and a FV Therapeutic Community of Practice – working to define and develop a guide to therapeutic readiness to embed improvements in referral pathways
• Chinese Community WG – to build the capacity of the FV workforce responding to the significant Chinese community including the development of a Chinese FV Information Hub with a suite of in-language resources
The RFVP ensure that advocates are kept informed and engaged in the development of key initiatives. The RFVP are working towards embedding survivor advocates in our governance committees; as members of working groups; and participation in key trainings, forums and Communities of Practice.
This presentation will look at the value and learnings from engaging and co-designing with victim survivor advocates to inform a system response that speaks to their needs.
The voice of victim survivor advocates was the central driver in the development of the strategic plan of the Regional Family Violence Partnership (RFVP), in Eastern Metropolitan Melbourne, shaping the vision, values, priorities and actions for 2020-2024, and subsequent annual Action Plan’s.
Several themes emerged from consultations with survivors advocates and were adopted:
• Broadening the lens beyond focusing on the point of crisis to support a vision of long-term recovery and address the ongoing impacts of family violence (FV)
• Embedding a trauma-informed lens across all work from prevention to recovery
• Responding to the unique needs of each individual, recognising the diverse and multiple structural barriers some communities experience
• Strengthening the integration of services which engage perpetrators.
This consultation formed the basis of the ‘Believed and Respected’ report and will be shared with conference participants.
The RFVP established cross sector Working Groups (WG) to drive work in the identified themes, including –
• FV Therapeutic WG and a FV Therapeutic Community of Practice – working to define and develop a guide to therapeutic readiness to embed improvements in referral pathways
• Chinese Community WG – to build the capacity of the FV workforce responding to the significant Chinese community including the development of a Chinese FV Information Hub with a suite of in-language resources
The RFVP ensure that advocates are kept informed and engaged in the development of key initiatives. The RFVP are working towards embedding survivor advocates in our governance committees; as members of working groups; and participation in key trainings, forums and Communities of Practice.
This presentation will look at the value and learnings from engaging and co-designing with victim survivor advocates to inform a system response that speaks to their needs.
Biography
A former Victoria Police detective with over 19 years’ experience investigating family violence, sexual assault and child abuse, Christine is now the Principal Strategic Advisor of a Family Violence Regional Integration Committee in Victoria. Committed to systems leadership, integration and workforce development while ensuring the voice of lived experience underpins all of this work.
