RMIT Domestic Violence Policy and Practice Forum
2025-11-27 09:00 - 17:00 UTC
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)

Thu, 27 Nov, 9am – 5pm AEDT

RMIT University, City Campus (room details will be included on your ticket)

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Hosted by RMIT Grad Cert in Domestic & Family Violence

REGISTER HERE

OMFVP - TOGETHER IN PRACTICE
2026-02-03 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-06 10:00 - 13:00
Location: WODONGA
Part A: ‘Your role in the framework. Collaborative risk assessment and information sharing’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

OMFVP - TOGETHER IN PRACTICE
2026-02-10 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-13 10:00 - 13:00
LOCATION: WODONGA
Part B: ‘Shared Risk, shared responses. Risk management and safety planning’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

OMFVP - Together in Practice
2026-02-18 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-19 10:00 - 13:00
Location: WANGARATTA
Part A: ‘Your role in the framework. Collaborative risk assessment and information sharing’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here

Centre for Community Health - Facilitation: Lead Groups That Inspire and Engage
2026-02-24 09:30 - 2026-02-25 16:00
Overview
Led by facilitators with extensive experience, Facilitation: Lead Groups That Inspire and Engage provides you with evidence-based tools and techniques to make a significant impact in your facilitation.
Why choose Facilitation: Lead Groups That Inspire?
What You’ll Gain

Engage Participants: Create interactive, inclusive, and meaningful group experiences.
Facilitation Confidence: Learn practical techniques and observe expert facilitators in action.
Design & Plan: Develop content that aligns with adult learning principles
Hands-On Practice: Try new approaches in a supportive, safe environment.

Why It Matters:

Strengthen collaboration and communication in your teams or programs.
Foster respectful partnerships with participants.
Reinvigorate your sessions to make every group interaction count.

Perfect For: Health professionals, educators, administrators, and anyone leading groups or workshops.
Reflections from past participants

‘Hands-on practice was invaluable and immediately applicable to my work’

‘Fantastic two days. Very worthwhile for my work and really engaging.’

‘Putting facilitation into practice was invaluable.’

‘This workshop transformed how I approach group sessions—I now facilitate with confidence and equality.’

Duration
2 days
Dates
24 and 25 February 2026
Cost
$1,330.00
Time
9.30AM to 4.00PM each day
Delivery
In-person
Venue
The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville VIC
Contact
For further information or to enquire about tailoring a workshop to meet the needs of your organisation, please email us at training.ccch@rch.org.au

OMFVP - Together in Practice
2026-03-04 09:30 - 16:30
Location: BRIGHT

This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.

Part A: ‘ Your role in the framework. Collaborative risk assessment and information sharing’
More information and enrol here

SAFE + EQUAL - PREVENTX 2026: STORIES FOR CHANGE Conference
2026-03-24 09:30 - 2026-03-25 17:00
Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 March 2026

Two day in-person conference
(24 & 25 March)
Online workshops (26 March)

PreventX is Australia’s leading conference on the prevention of family and gender-based violence, bringing together practitioners to reflect, connect and explore how storytelling can drive meaningful and lasting change.

In 2026, PreventX returns as an in-person event with an online component, combining the energy of in-person connection with the accessibility of virtual engagement.
Hosted by Safe and Equal, PreventX is one of the largest gatherings of professionals working to prevent family and gender-based violence in Australia. Since 2019, it has brought together hundreds of practitioners from across the country to share insights, strategies and learnings on how to build momentum for long-term change.
In 2026, we’re coming together again with a renewed focus: What stories of impact are we seeing in our work? And how can we use storytelling to make our work possible?

What to expect

Whether you’re new to this space or deeply embedded in prevention, PreventX is an opportunity to:

Hear directly from practitioners, communities, advocates and grassroots initiatives across the country.
Build stronger connections and expand your network.
Share the change you’re seeing and be part of shaping what comes next.

Conference goals

Our hope for PreventX 2026 is that participants will:

Feel affirmed, inspired, bold and energised​ .
Have tangible information and tools to take action​ to continue to build momentum and support.
Develop connections to work together more often and effectively.

Who is PreventX for?

This conference is designed for anyone working to prevent family and gender-based violence who want to better understand and connect with prevention efforts.
BUY YOUR ADVANCE TICKET HERE

Centre for Community Child Health - Working in Partnership with Families
2026-04-21 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-04-28 16:00 - 17:30
Working in Partnership with Families
Overview
This workshop will equip you to identify and use strategies that support a partnership approach within and across family services.
Why choose Working in Partnership with Families?
Working in Partnership draws on the evidence-based Family Partnership Model, an approach that fosters respectful collaboration between parents and professionals striving towards shared goals.

Increase your understanding of engagement and partnership as concepts that influence your practice.
Build your awareness of the worker and service characteristics that support engagement and working in partnership.
Learn how to identify and use tools and strategies that support a partnership approach within and across family services.

Reflections from past participants
‘Very interactive. I enjoyed the meaningful questions, activities and group discussions.’
Duration

2x 1.5-hour sessions
Also available as a half-day, one-day or two-day workshop.

Dates
21 April and 28 April 2026
Delivery
Online
Cost
$268.00
Time
4PM to 5.30PM
Contact
For further information or to enquire about tailoring a workshop to meet the needs of your organisation, please email us at training.ccch@rch.org.au
Participation
All training is participatory and highly interactive. Participants attending online workshops are asked to have cameras turned on throughout the session with a preference for one participant per screen.

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OMFVP-TOGETHER IN PRACTICE
2026-05-26 10:00 - 13:00
LOCATION: WANGARATTA
Part B: ‘Shared Risk, shared responses. Risk management and safety planning’
This two-part training is open to all professionals in the Ovens Murray Region who respond to family violence. It is designed to support your understanding of your responsibilities under the MARAM Framework, with a focus on collaborative risk assessment and information sharing.
This is not a risk assessment training but forms an integral part of the MARAM suite if training for professionals. Participants will explore their roles in the framework, strengthen regional connections and apply learning to place based scenarios.
More information and enrol here
