RMIT Domestic Violence Policy and Practice Forum

This FREE one day forum will feature panel discussions and interactive skill-based workshops, offering a collaborative space to reflect, share insights, and explore what more is needed to strengthen Victoria’s response to family violence. The event has been designed for experienced practitioners, newcomers to the sector and students studying family violence.

Nine years after the Royal Commission: what has improved and what challenges remain? This one day forum will feature panel discussions and interactive skill-based workshops, offering a collaborative space to reflect, share insights, and explore what more is needed to strengthen Victoria’s response to family violence. The event has been designed for experienced practitioners, newcomers to the sector and students studying family violence.

Opening plenary panel speakers include:

• Joe Ball, Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities
• Katie Alexander, Survivor Advocate, Victims Survivors’ Advisory Council
• Jackie Wruck, Asia Pacific Regional Manager, Safe & Together
• Anastasia Powell, Professor of Family & Sexual Violence (MC)

Workshops include:

• Suze Radford: Partnering with First Nations Clients to Undertake a MARAM Risk Assessment.
• Ada Conroy: Avoiding Collusion when Working with People that Choose Violence
• Be Bannerman: Queering Trauma Informed Practice
• Sarah Biordi, WESNET: Tech Safety in Practice: Supporting Victim-Survivors of Technology-Facilitated Abuse 

Closing plenary panel speakers include:

• Tania Farha, Chief Executive Officer, Safe & Equal

• Phillip Ripper, Chief Executive Officer, No to Violence

• Kathleen Maltzahn, Chief Executive Officer, Sexual Assault Services Victoria
• Anastasia Powell, Professor of Family & Sexual Violence (MC)

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