Events & Training

A calendar of all current and upcoming training and events can be viewed here.  These events and training sessions are predominately those being run by organisations in the Bayside Peninsula region.

If your organisation is running training or an event and you would like to add it to the SouthSafe calendar, please contact us.

 

BPIFVP’s A Day in the Life Series

The Family Violence Partnership team are creating a series of video interviews with various Bayside Peninsula practitioners.  Read more about them, and see recordings of past interviews here.

 

Self-Directed Learning – Available Resources

• Listening to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Voices – prepared by Djirra in partnership with Safe and Equal, for family violence workers who have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women as their clients

• Support for children and young people – co-produced with Berry Street’s Y-Change Lived Experience Consultants and Safe and Equal to help practitioners better support children and young people with experiences of family violence

• Tip sheet to help practitioners responding to family violence provide LGBTIQA+ inclusive support – prepared with Switchboard and Safe and Equal.  Tip sheet to help practitioners responding to family violence provide LGBTIQA+ inclusive support, assessment, safety planning and referral.

• Providing safety and support for criminalised victim survivors – a tip sheet and poster aimed at criminalised women and seeks to empower them to access the tip sheet and provide it to a service or practitioner they are working with.

• Forced marriage in the context of family violence – a tip sheet that provides information to help family violence practitioners understand what forced marriage is, the signs to look out for, and ways to support someone who has experienced forced marriage.

• Supporting people with disability – a webinar resource

• Identifying and responding to elder abuse in intergenerational households – a response resource for workers

 

Training Providers

• Emerging Minds provides FREE online training with one to four hour modules covering a range of topics
• The Bouverie Centre provides FREE online training across various Elder Abuse topics
• Berry Street Professional Development online Training & Events – click here for the latest Professional Development opportunities available
• WIRE provides family violence training – click here for the latest courses available
• Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre provides FREE seminars on family violence and gender topics
• No to Violence provides provides a range of training and professional development to a variety of audiences, from practitioners of differing experience levels to corporate leadership and human resources.  See their current training calendar here.

 

MARAM Training

• For details of Safe+Equal run training on MARAM, go to our MARAM Training page.
• New MARAM training modules are available for Department of Families Fairness and Housing, Department of Health workforces and sector funded organisations on the WOVG website via https://elearn.childlink.com.au/  Training includes a Family Violence Foundation eLearn, Screening and Identification and Brief and Intermediate courses, and a range of training that has been developed through the Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) initiative.
• The BPIFVP runs free Collaborative Practice full day training.  Read here for why workers should attend CP training, and to register for training, go to our training and events calendar.
• The BPIFVP holds Collaborative Practice Forums, or Communities of Practice (COP), to discuss various MARAM topics.  To register, go to our training and events calendar.

 

Events

A variety of events are running at any time through the Bayside Peninsula region.  Check out our calendar of training and events for more information.