Brief Intervention Service – BIS (VIRTUAL)
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Ballroom One
| Thursday, December 2, 2021 |
| 1:46 PM - 2:06 PM |
Overview
Melonie Sheehan & Dr Khaldoon Fahmi, No to Violence
Speaker
Dr Khaldoon Fahmi
Direct Services Manager
No to Violence
Brief Intervention Service – BIS (VIRTUAL)
Abstract
Please see Melonie Sheehan
Biography
Dr Khaldoon Fahmi is the Direct Services Manager at No to Violence – NTV. Khaldoon joined NTV in 2020 as the Coordinator of the Brief Intervention Service Program. He successfully designed and structured the services model and framework for the program.
Prior to working at NTV, Khaldoon worked as a Family Violence Respondent Practitioner at Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, and as a Senior Clinician of Man’s Behaviour Change Program for more than four years. Khaldoon has been connected to other related family violence prevention programs in within the Alcohol and Other Drugs and Cultural and Linguistic Diverse sectors.
Khaldoon completed his Doctorate in Psychology from Baghdad University, where he majored in Cognitive Psychology, he has a Master’s degree in counselling from Victoria University. Khaldoon has lectured at several international academic institutes for more than twelve years.
Khaldoon currently lives in Melbourne with his family. When he is not keeping busy he listens to music and watches movies.
Khaldoon can be found on Linkedin linkedin.com/in/dr-khaldoon-fahmi-42491213a
Melonie Sheehan
Head of Services
No to Violence
Brief Intervention Service – BIS (VIRTUAL)
Abstract
The NTV Brief Intervention Service was funded by the Department of Social Services in 2019 in response to the sudden and unexpected closures of National Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP’s), directly related to the COVID 19 pandemic. The telehealth support service is designed to hold men pre and post MBCP’s, keeping them in view until community support is available to them. The program has been evaluated and was refunded for the FY 20/21 outside of COVID 19 funding;
• What is the National BIS
• What are the clinical frameworks and the referral pathways of the BIS
• What did the evaluation tell us
• Where to next
• What is the National BIS
• What are the clinical frameworks and the referral pathways of the BIS
• What did the evaluation tell us
• Where to next
Biography
Melonie Sheehan is the Head of Services at NTV. Melonie joined the NTV team in April 2021. Melonie graduated her Deakin University Social Work degree in 2000. Melonie spent most of her career in Child Protection and Child and Family Services before moving into the Domestic and Family Violence sector in 2016.
Melonie recently spent close to 5 years on the leadership team at 1800RESPECT where she developed an awareness and sense of importance for National telehealth services as a holding space for direct referral pathways and connection to face to face community support services.
Melonie currently lives in regional Victoria. Her proudest achievements are the life she has created with her partner and their three children. In her spare time Melonie enjoys walking with her husband and dogs on nearby beaches.
