The work outlined in the Everybody Matters Inclusion and Equity Blueprint 2019-2022 will contribute to delivering the objectives of other key Victorian Government strategies and frameworks, including:
Strategy Objectives and outcomes Enhancing Safety: Family Violence Strategy for the Victorian Correction System 2018-2021 - Guide the way that the Victorian corrections system responds to family violence.
- Recognising that prisoners and offenders are over-represented as victim survivors and perpetrators of family violence.
- Reducing re-offending and supporting victim survivors of family violence.
Strategies and frameworks Objectives and outcomes Absolutely Everyone: Victorian State Disability Plan 2017-2020
- Focuses on key areas to drive change such as adopting a universal design approach, changing attitudes, increasing access to affordable housing, public transport, schools and jobs.
- Ensuring that people with a disability are able to make the most of the NDIS through a series of actions.
- These include working with communities to identify and address barriers to participation.
Aims to support carers, with a focus on five priority areas to ensure carers:
- are healthy and well
- are engaged in education, employment and community
- can access respite and other supports they need when they want them
- have less financial stress
- are recognised, acknowledged and respected.
Korin Balit-Djak - Aboriginal health, wellbeing and safety strategic plan 2017-2027
- Increase access to Aboriginal community-led family violence prevention and support services.
- Better engagement and supports for Aboriginal elders.
- Advance self-determination in Aboriginal housing and homelessness.
- Promote and embed Aboriginal trauma-informed healing, recovery and resilience initiatives.
- Strengthening communities to better prevent neglect and
- Delivering early support to children and families at risk.
- Keeping more families together through crisis.
- Securing a better future for children who cannot live at home.
- Create services that are co-ordinated and work together to meet the needs of vulnerable families and children.
Wungurilwil Gapgapduir - Aboriginal Children and Families Agreement and Strategic Action Plan
- Redesign child and family and services including out of home care, so they are child-focused, family-centred, strengths-based, celebrate culture and enable families to stay safe and together.
- Capture, build and share Aboriginal knowledge, learning and evidence to drive children and family services’ investment and to inform practice.
- Launched in 2015, the Plan outlines the Victorian Government’s guide to drive better mental health outcomes for all Victorians. Some intended outcomes of the Plan include better results for people with mental illness, such as more social and economic participation, reduced contact with the criminal justice system and better access to safe, responsive services that join up to work as a whole. Following this Plan, a whole-of-Victorian government suicide prevention framework, an Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing framework and a mental health workforce strategy has also been released.
The plan guides the government to:
- make improvements to the Victorian Disability Advocacy Program
- decide how best to invest funding
- respond to the community’s call for better access to advocacy
- determine a longer-term approach to disability advocacy in Victoria from 2021.
- The Plan is released every four years and is a requirement of Victoria’s Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008.
- The Plan sets out a comprehensive approach to deliver improved public health and wellbeing outcomes for all Victorians 10 priority areas (including preventing all forms of family violence), four focus areas and 12 strategic actions.
- Family violence and gender inequality are not tolerated.
- Victim survivors, vulnerable children and families, are safe and supported to recover and thrive.
- Perpetrators are held accountable, connected and take responsibility for stopping their violence.
- Preventing and responding to family violence is systemic and enduring.
- Sets the outcome statements for the 4 domains in Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s Plan for Change, outlining Victoria’s priorities in preventing and responding to family violence, why these priorities matter and what constitutes success in achieving these outcomes.
- Strengthen the infrastructure, systems and structures for a sustained and much larger primary prevention platform in Victoria to address violence before it starts.
- Address the underlying social norms, attitudes and behaviours that drive gender inequality, family violence and all forms of violence against women.
- Build the evidence-base and innovative practice through research and evaluation, including the evidence-base of violence against women with disabilities, Aboriginal, culturally and linguistically diverse and LGBTIQ communities and older Victorians.
- Scale up proven and promising practices in prevention in a range of settings where Victorians work, live, learn and play.
- Engage and communicate with the community on the need to address gender inequality and discrimination.
- Create attitude and behaviour change to reduce violence against women and deliver gender equality in wide range of settings such as workplaces, community groups, sports associations and the media.
- Deliver founding reforms, including legislative changes, governance structures, employment practices, budget, policy changes to drive gender equality reform.
- The framework is a tool for government and non-government service providers and agencies who collect administrative data in the context of family violence.
Victorian. And proud of it – Victoria’s Multicultural Policy Statement 2017
Celebrate Victoria’s multiculturalism and ensure all Victorians are:
- safe and secure
- healthy and well
- able to participate fully
- connected to culture and community
- have equal rights and responsibilities.
Strategies and frameworks Objectives and outcomes Building from Strength: 10-Year Industry Plan for Family Violence Prevention and Response
- Delivers on recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Family Violence.
- Focused on prevention and response.
- Ensuring the workforce of the future is equipped to prevent and respond to all forms of family violence, and the individuals that experience or use it.
- Enhancing the system to be accountable and work collaboratively towards shared outcomes, including supporting long-term recovery. Its continuous development is built on robust data and evaluation and harnessing technology.
Dhelk Dja: Safe Our Way – Strong Culture, Strong Peoples, Strong Families 2018-28
- Aboriginal-led Victorian Agreement that commits Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal services and government to work together and be accountable for ensuring that Aboriginal people, families and communities are stronger, safer, thriving and living free from family violence.
- Articulates the long-term partnership and directions required at a statewide, regional and local level to ensure that Aboriginal people, families and communities are violence-free, and built upon the foundation of Aboriginal self-determination.
Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM Framework)
- Delivers on recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Family Violence.
- Embedded in the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 as a legislative instrument, consolidates the direction and authorising environment for family violence risk assessment and management in Victoria, including through evidence-based risk factors, formalised responsibilities and practice principles.
- Supports consistent and collaborative practice across prescribed Framework organisations, including through secondary consultation and referral to strengthen organisational capacity and service responses to people experiencing family violence across diverse communities.
Strengthening the Foundations: First Rolling Action Plan 2019-2022
- Delivers on recommendation made by the Royal Commission
- Provide an implementation roadmap to achieving the vision of Building from Strength
- Lay the foundations for building a supported, valued, skilled and diverse workforce
- Incorporate emerging evidence and responding to the changing family violence, primary prevention and broader systems.
- The Framework is a strategic response for Aboriginal services and communities in Victoria to guide service design, implementation and evaluation.
- The Framework is also for Victorian government to act as a Blueprint for funding guidelines, compliance, indicator measures and evaluation.
Strategy Objectives and outcomes - Respect Victoria is the independent statutory body focused on the primary prevention of all forms of family violence and violence against women for all Victorians, working closely with the Office for Women in the Department of Premier and Cabinet within the framework of Free from Violence: Victoria’s strategy to prevent family violence and all forms of violence against women.
- Respect Victoria has a strong commitment to diverse communities and to intersectionality as a core operating principle. Its efforts to progress these issues will be promoted and reported through a range of complementary documents.
Strategy Objectives and outcomes Victoria Police plays an integral role in reducing, and ultimately preventing the harm caused by perpetrators of family violence, sexual offences and child abuse, by holding perpetrators to account and improving the safety and wellbeing of all victims.
The four strategic priorities contained within the strategy are:
- service delivery improves the safety and wellbeing of victims
- perpetrators are actively managed and held to account
- child safety is front of mind
- a capable and safe workforce.
Strategy Objectives and outcomes Getting to Work: Victorian Public Sector Disability Employment Action Plan 2018-2025
- The Victorian Government has committed to increasing the number of people with a disability in the public sector. Getting to Work sets a target of 6 per cent representation by 2020 and 12 per cent by 2025.
- These targets apply to the Victorian Public Service and will expand to the broader public over time.
- To achieve these targets, the plan has 21 actions over 3 focus areas:
- 1. Build awareness through access to information.
- 2. Attract and recruit people with a disability.
- 3. Support employees with a disability.
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