WCFVP: New Community Resource
The Whittlesea CALD Communities Family Violence Project (WCFVP) has been working to prevent and respond to family violence in the City of Whittlesea for the last five years.

During that time, many lessons have been learnt implementing the project and captured in this WCFVP community resource. The resource includes a model summary (for other community based agencies looking to do similar work) in addition to project implementation lessons and findings.

Click here to view or download the file.

Whittlesea CALD Communities Family Violence Project - Scoping report

The WCFVP was designed following a scoping exercise that incorporated a review of international literature with extensive consultation with survivors of violence, community representatives and support agencies. 

It works across prevention, early intervention and response, aligning with the Victorian Framework for Primary Prevention of Violence against Women and the recently released Second Action Plan for the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children. Click the image above to read the Scoping Report.

Multilingual Family Violence Resources (Arabic, Persian and sub-continent communities).

WCFVP- Annual report 2014

In 2014 the WCFVP achieved some major successes. The project delivered:

• $20,000 of brokerage grants to support local CALD women’s groups 
• provided family violence community legal education and training to 74 women. 1 in 5 later accessed family violence support from Whittlesea Community Connections and reported feeling confident to support friends and family to access support services. 
• 6 women went on to form the basis of the project’s Women’s Advisory Group,  established to provide feedback and input to ensure the WCFVP remains responsive to the needs of the community.
• Consultations were held with local community and religious leaders. 
• A family violence forum that attracted 110 participants from the local Chaldean community. 
• Explored options for early intervention support during the settlement process and received handover of Victoria Legal Aid’s Settled and Safe program, with a pilot to be adapted and developed with the local Iranian community in 2015.
• Explored potential models for developing a whole of school respectful and equitable relationship program to be piloted at a local primary school.
• With generous support from inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence (inTouch), project members came together to raise funds to pilot an Arabic-speaking Men’s Family Violence Group.  The successful implementation of this pilot in 2015 will provide valuable learnings for a fully accredited Arabic-speaking MBC in the future.

WCC Participation in 'Family Violence and Alcohol as a Trigger' Webinar 
In October 2017 our CEO, Alex Haynes, participated in the 'Family Violence and Alcohol as a Trigger' Webinar presented by Australian Safe Communities Foundation and Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand. 

​Alex presented the Whittlesea CALD Family Violence Project (WCFVP) that brings together a range of key local agencies to design, deliver and evaluate an integrate model to reduce and prevent Family Violence in Whittlesea's CALD Communities.
Follow the link to access the webinar: http://bit.ly/2zhMcKp