| K1 | <p>Apply social and community services theories, human rights and professional practice frameworks including the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM) (State of Victoria, 2021) when working with adults experiencing family violence and children experiencing family violence and people using violence.</p> |
| K2 | <p>Apply intersectionality and demonstrate how unconscious bias can increase marginalised groups of people to have negative outcomes. </p> |
| K3 | <p>Demonstrate an understanding of the gendered nature of family violence, with family violence overwhelmingly violence perpetrated by men to women and to people from the LGBTIQA+ communities.</p> |
| K4 | <p>Develop an advanced understanding of family violence definitions, legislation, policy, social and service context.</p> |
| K5 | <p>Demonstrate an advanced ability to apply knowledge and principles of self-determination and cultural safety in professional practice, informed by an understanding of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples’ cultures, the injustices experienced as a result of colonisation, and the ongoing impacts these have on experiences of social and community services.</p> |
| K6 | <p>Demonstrate advanced analysis of the values, ideologies and discourses that underpin professional practice in family violence work, including recognising and managing personal values, prejudices, discrimination and biases [conscious and unconscious], and understanding how these can affect inclusive service provision.</p> |
| K7 | <p>Recognise the value of evidence-based domestic and international research to service provision with adults experiencing FV, children experiencing FV and adults using FV. This includes the Duluth Power and Control Wheel, the MARAM framework in the state of Victoria for guidance on evidence-based risk factors and tools such as Comprehensive Risk Assessment, and Safety Planning, as well as legal guidelines such as the Information Sharing Schemes. </p> |
| S1 | <p>Identify and apply relevant family violence frameworks and practice guidance for recognising and responding to family violence when working with working with adults experiencing FV, children and adolescents experiencing FV, and adults using FV. Demonstrate the use of practical skills and family violence practice guidance to undertake risk assessment and risk management in accordance with the MARAM framework.</p> |
| S2 | <p>Demonstrate the development of skills for practice through written [including case notes] and oral assessments and in discussion with peers.</p> |
| S3 | <p>Develop self-knowledge and awareness through reflection and reflexivity in the application of family violence risk assessment and risk management frameworks. </p> |
| S4 | <p>Analyse and evaluate knowledge and information to inform practice approaches, including the importance of practitioner wellbeing.</p> |
| A1 | <p>Apply skills for practice by integrating knowledge of family violence practice frameworks and theory to a range of social issues, in particular family violence as experienced by multiple different communities and populations.</p> |
| A2 | <p>Apply reflective thinking to practice, to examine the power dynamics between client and practitioner when working with adults experiencing FV, children experiencing FV and adults using FV.</p> |
| A3 | <p>Demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge and skills, and to engage in a respectful, professional and culturally safe manner. </p> |
| A4 | <p>Demonstrate knowledge and skills for engaging and working with people who use violence and for increasing accountability for people who use violence. </p> |
| A5 | <p>Demonstrate an ability<strong> </strong>to work towards recovery and healing, using a trauma-informed approach that demonstrates belief, respect, and valuing of knowledge, culture and lived experience.</p> |