What MARAM tools are in TRAM and SHIP?
Tools for Risk Assessment and Management (TRAM) has been developed by Family Safety Victoria (FSV) as an online platform for use across the service system. TRAM contains the adult and child victim survivor MARAM risk assessments and safety plan, Comprehensive Adult Using Family Violence assessment tool, Predominant Aggressor Identification tool, and in future it will host the child and young person MARAM resources, currently in development. This platform is used across The Orange Door network and by several community agencies.
FSV also oversees the development of the MARAM risk assessment and management tools into the Specialist Homelessness Information Platform (SHIP). SHIP contains the adult and child victim survivor MARAM risk assessments and safety plan. MARAM tools in both these online platforms support services in their alignment to MARAM.
What additional MARAM tools are coming to the online platforms?
FSV are scoping adding the Identification and Intermediate Adults Using Family Violence assessment tools into SHIP. Use of these tools in SHIP by housing and homelessness services will allow FSV to collect and analyse de-identified data on family violence risk and trends, these will contribute to service improvements and the adults using family violence evidence base. The Predominant Aggressor Identification template was released for use by Specialist Family Violence Services in July 2024. This template provides a structure to support the accurate identification of the predominant aggressor using information sharing, direct assessment, and structured analysis.
The TRAM platform has undergone a security upgrade to ensure client information remains secure and confidential. This upgrade has resulted in a new and cleaner look for TRAM. It also opens the possibility for further improvements across TRAM which FSV are exploring.
Organisations interested in more information or adopting TRAM can contact tram@familysafety.vic.gov.au(opens in a new window).
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