In 10 years
- Aboriginal people and communities will be safe to express their cultural identity
- More Aboriginal Elders, men and women will be champions, role models and leaders promoting everyone’s right to safety and wellbeing
- There will be a strong evidence base to understand the possible impact of an Aboriginal community-led prevention approach
- Government will invest sustainably in holistic, culturally appropriate, Aboriginal-led prevention initiatives that take a whole of family and whole of community approach and share pride in Aboriginal culture and history
- Victorian communities will have zero tolerance for family violence, racism and discrimination
- The impact of family violence on Aboriginal communities will reduce
Critical actions
2.1 Embedding self-determination in prevention efforts targeting Aboriginal communities, particularly regarding funding arrangements and reporting requirements
2.2 Develop the leadership capability of the Action Groups to promote Aboriginal-led prevention in their community
2.3 Invest in best-practice prevention initiatives
Supporting activities
| Supporting activities | Lead and contributors | Activities duration by year |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.1 Build on the evidence base of Aboriginal community-led prevention to prioritise funding towards successful prevention initiatives | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Department of Justice and Community Safety | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.1.2 Develop Aboriginal measures of success in Aboriginal-led prevention and family violence funded activities | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.1.3 Expansion and evaluation of the Aboriginal Private Rental Assistance Program | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.1.4 Review of Aboriginal Practice Guide to support the workforce to respond safely and respectfully to Aboriginal people who have experienced or are affected by family and/or sexual violence | Victoria Police | Beginning and completion in 2023 |
| 2.1.5 Coordinate Victoria Police efforts across Commands to support strategic objectives involving Aboriginal communities and priorities | Victoria Police | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.2.1 Design and implement a community-led prevention education program targeted for Aboriginal people | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.2.2 Annual showcase event to inform best practice and community-led prevention activity | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.2.3 Develop an Ambassadors Program to promote the prevention of Aboriginal family violence in the community | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Dhelk Dja Koori Caucus | Beginning and completion in 2025 |
| 2.2.4 Support Aboriginal leadership engagement at Police and Aboriginal Community Protocols Against Family Violence (PACPAFV) sites | Victoria Police | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.2.5 Continue to support all Victorian government schools and participating Catholic and independent schools to implement and embed Respectful Relationships. This recognises that violence against Aboriginal women and children is often perpetrated by men from other cultural backgrounds | Department of Education | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.1 Strengthen existing Aboriginal prevention campaigns | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing | Beginning in 2024 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.2 Develop a Deadly questions campaign | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.3.3 In partnership with Aboriginal organisations, develop and deliver education programs for Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care, focusing on respectful relationships to break the cycle of intergenerational family violence | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Department of Education | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.3.4 Deliver evidence-based respectful relationships education focussed on children and young people in the Aboriginal community | Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Department of Education | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.3.5 Work through recommendations from the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor on Misidentification of the Predominant Aggressor including: ‘Through Koori Caucus and the Dhelk Dja Partnership Forum, work with the ACCO Family Violence Forum members to ensure that the solutions developed adequately respond to Aboriginal victim-survivors’ | Victoria Police | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.3.6 Implement proposed actions to ensure that the solutions developed adequately respond to Aboriginal victim-survivors that are misidentified as the predominate aggressor | Department of Justice and Community Safety Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, Victoria Police, Magistrates’ Court of Victoria | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.7 Ensure family violence case prioritisation models address Aboriginal specific issues. | Victoria Police | Beginning and completion in 2024 |
| 2.3.8 Continue to deliver the Respectful Relationships professional learning to early childhood educators in Victorian government funded kindergartens. This recognises that violence against Aboriginal women and children is often perpetrated by men from other cultural backgrounds | Department of Education | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.9 Build the capacity of the regional Respectful Relationships workforce to support schools to implement Respectful Relationships in a culturally safe way for Aboriginal students, families and school staff, through professional development and supporting resources | Department of Education | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.10 Update the Resilience Rights and Respectful Relationships and Building Respectful Relationships teaching and learning resources to ensure they are inclusive of Aboriginal children and young people. | Department of Education | Beginning and completion in 2023 |
| 2.3.11 Schools can engage local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO) and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO) through the Schools Mental Health Menu to support their implementation of Respectful Relationships in a culturally safe way for Aboriginal students and families | Department of Education | Beginning in 2024 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.12 Continue to support delivery of Djirra for the delivery of Dilly Bag, Sisters Day Out and Young Luv programs for Aboriginal women experiencing or at risk of family violence | Department of Justice and Community Safety Djirra | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.13 Continue to support delivery of Dardi Munwurro for the expansion of the Bramung Jaarn Program. | Department of Justice and Community Safety Dardi Munwurro | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.14 Continue the delivery of The Beyond Survival Program | Department of Justice and Community Safety Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.3.15 Continue the delivery of the Men's Healing and Behaviour Change Program | Department of Justice and Community Safety | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.3.16 Continue to deliver the Marumali Program in prisons and Community Corrections Services | Department of Justice and Community Safety Connecting Home | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.3.17 Continue to deliver the Gulgurn Munja Gariwerd Academy in youth justice | Department of Justice and Community Safety Wimmera South West - BSW and Grampians RAJAC | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.3.18 Continue to deliver the Koko Blokes in prisons and Community Corrections Services | Department of Justice and Community Safety BSW RAJAC | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2024 |
| 2.3.19 Support the design of an independent self-determined justice model that will incorporate Elders and Respected Persons Council to be known as Yallum Yallum | Department of Justice and Community Safety Grampians RAJAC | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.20 Operationalisation of the definition of harm under the Liquor Control Reform Act (LCRA) | Department of Justice and Community Safety Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
| 2.3.20 Improved service integration between Gamblers Help and family violence support services | Department of Justice and Community Safety Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation | Beginning in 2023 and completion by 2025 |
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